PZI Events Calendar
W E L C O M E to the PZI Events Calendar! Here you will find all upcoming events and registration links for PZI Zen Online retreats, sesshins, and weekly meditations & talks. Search by individual event, day, or month. Save to your Google Calendar or iCal Calendar. No experience required to participate. All event times are Pacific Time. Questions? Contact Lucas at PZI Support.
F E A T U R E D
April 19: Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK. Returns April 26th!
May 7–10: Say A True Word & I Will Stay The Night – Open Mind Retreat with John Tarrant, Tess Beasley, & Allison Atwill
June 8–14: Dragons & Tigers, Oh My! – Our Great Summer Sesshin with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers
Deep Sit Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Tess Beasley
Link coming soon!
Meditation can’t be praised enough.
The benefits of generosity and discipline,
prayer, self-reflection, and practice,
have their source in meditation.
With what we gain from just one sitting,
all our crimes are wiped away.
—Hakuin Ekaku
Enlightenment happens inside this life that we have. It’s not some other more satisfactory life with special conditions. So you set off!
You go through one archway, and then you go through a second, and then a third archway, and eventually your worries fall away, though you didn’t ask them to, all desperation falls away and any cause of suffering in the mind is illuminated. Life after life you have been doing this and it’s not a surprise that you come eventually to the Buddha, who is sitting on an ordinary zafu smiling, and Buddha says, “Yes, that’s it, you are doing it alright, just do zazen like that!” and happiness comes over you.
Meditation is also extra good if you do it together with friends.
Join us this Sunday.
—John Tarrant, Roshi
Schedule (ALL TIMES PACIFIC):
9AM – 11AM – Meditation & Music with Open Temple Leaders
11AM – 12PM – Meditation, Poetry & Reflections with John Tarrant, Tess Beasley & Friends
Meditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you, for doors to open by themselves, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead.
Waking up is something we do together, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.
—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
