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Artist: Allison Atwill Roshi
Allison Atwill Roshi became PZI Art Sensei in 2007. She paints and teaches Zen in Santa Rosa, CA. Here you will find a sample of her works in mixed media on wooden panels. Sizes and titles listed below.
Special Program: 4 Teachers & 4 Boundless Vows: 1st Vow – with Allison Atwill
Part 1, “I vow to wake all the beings of the world.” Allison Atwill introduces the 1st of the 4 Vows, noticing the grandeur and awe of an impossible task. One’s own room expanding outwards, vow as a prayer in service of awakening. How to save all beings? By including them, now. That which has already been born, allow it to be here and find its place. Excerpt from the Sunday session on August 1, 2021.
Free & Easy Wandering Series: Knock on Any Door with Allison Atwill
An excerpt from the full Sunday session with co-host Tess Beasley. Allison Atwill tells a story of a moment when she knocked on a door and entered the vastness of the universe. As recorded on May 30, 2021
Zen Tuesdays: Doors of Perception with Allison Atwill
Allison Atwill Roshi’s Zen Tuesday dharma talk. The immensity of sound as it permeates all barriers. Cracks showing in our traditions and conventions, trying to get back to the old imperfect life. Jim Morrison and The Doors offer up “Light My Fire” as rendered on the Ed Sullivan show. As recorded Oct 12 2020.
Fall Sesshin 2020: Not for Anything Else – Morning Talk with Allison Atwill Oct 3
PZI Fall Sesshin: Allison Atwill asks – What is “my” first principle? A question that does not need an answer but furthers our chasing about! The Emperor in us asks this again and again. But, like Huangbo, we have come “Not for anything else!” – just this perfect life. As recorded October 3, 2020.
Audio Excerpt: Saving Houses – Fiery Guanyin, with Allison Atwill
PZI Zen Online: Audio excerpt from Guanyin in the Pavilion Under the August Moon: Saving houses from fire. Allison Atwill Roshi’s stories of fiery compassion and radiance. As recorded August 30 2020.
Audio Excerpt: The Great Temple Fire & Nothing Destroyed with Allison Atwill
PZI Zen Online: Audio excerpt from Guanyin in the Pavilion Under the August Moon. Fire & Radiance with Allison Atwill Roshi. As recorded Aug 30 2020.
Standing in Your Own Place with Allison Atwill Roshi
PZI Zen – Sesshin Winter 2018. Dharma talk relaying the narrow escape for two natural disaster one after another in devastating fire and debris flows afterward.
Fiery, Radiant Guanyin in the Pavilion Under the August Moon with Allison Atwill Roshi
PZI Zen Online – Audio: Fiery Guanyin in the butterfly tent with open wings. Allison reminds us of all the elemental manifestations of Guanyin as Space, Earth, Water, Air, and finally Fire. Guanyin manifests solutions from unseen space in any situation that is deemed unfixable. Fire is an ancient symbol of transformation but also shows itself through Gunayin as the inner radiance of all things. Every appearance has its own brightness. The koan of the great temple fire of Engaku-ji Temple in Kamakura, in which everything was burned and yet nothing was destroyed. One of the 100 Samurai Koans. As recorded, with Michael Wilding on flute. Aug 30, 2020
Audio Excerpt: The Surprise of Guanyin with Allison Atwill
PZI Zen Online: Audio excerpt from Guanyin In the Pavilion Under the August Moon. Allison Atwill Roshi introduces the surprise of Guanyin – anything can happen when the Goddess appears, she has no fixed form. As recorded August 2 2020.
Allison Atwill’s Art Talk, Part 1
Allison Atwill discusses her art and its relationship to koan practice. Part 1. 2010.
Allison Atwill’s Art Talk, Part 2
Allison Atwill discusses her art and its relationship to koan practice. Part 2. 2010.
Allison Atwill’s Art Talk, Part 6
Allison Atwill discusses her art and its relationship to koan practice. Part 6. 2010.
Allison Atwill’s Art Talk, Part 5
Allison Atwill discusses her art and its relationship to koan practice. Part 5. 2010.
Allison Atwill’s Art Talk, Part 4
Allison Atwill discusses her art and its relationship to koan practice. Part 4.
Allison Atwill’s Art Talk, Part 3
Allison Atwill discusses her art and its relationship to koan practice. Part 3. 2010.
VIDEO: Refuge – How the Precepts Arrive in Your Life
Allison Atwill talks about the way your awakening arrives – in the specific form for you among all other possibilities. The creation of the self blocks the vast field that the precepts live in. April 27, 2021. 3 minutes.
Dreams of Awakening: A Familiar Face from Long Ago
With dreams, whatever part touches your heart, that’s the part you want. The universe is providing these personal and archetypal myths in the perfect formulation for your awakening. Dreams help us because we can’t control them. The gold is wherever you are. As recorded December 5, 2021. Music from Michael Wilding & 4 vows from Cantor Amaryllis Fletcher & Jordan McConnell. Comments and dream stories from Allison Atwill, Tess Beasley, Michelle Riddle, and others.
Dreams of Awakening: Our Dark Fairytale Dreams Are It Too
Allison Atwill tells of a dream, and shares insights on the importance of dreaming dark dreams, our own awakening in that particular form. The universe crafts dreams perfectly—personal fairytales and myths that are just for us, for our own awakenings. An excerpt of the longer Sunday session on December 5, 2021, with John Tarrant & Friends. 7 minutes.
Fall Sesshin 2021: Freely I Watch the Tracks of the Flying Birds
As recorded on October 22, at PZI Fall Sesshin 2021. Bird tracks and a crane story from long ago in China. Four vows are sung and played by Amaryllis Fletcher & Jordan McConnell. Allison Atwill gives a closing poem.
Koan Meditation with Michael Wilding on Flute
Meditation – Music from Michael Wilding followed by a brief koan meditation with Allison Atwill. As recorded May 30, 2021.
Vows as Koans – Part 3: I Vow to Do Good for Others
Part 3 of a 3-part series: The Three Pure Vows as Enduring Koans of Everyday Life with Allison Atwill, Tess Beasley & Jesse Cardin. Talks by all three teachers on the vows of our tradition. Complete session, as recorded June 21, 2021.
Vows as Koans – Part 2: I Vow to Do Good
Part 2 of a 3-part series: The Three Pure Vows as Enduring Koans of Everyday Life with Allison Atwill, Tess Beasley & Jesse Cardin. Talks by all three teachers on the vows of our tradition. Complete session, as recorded June 14, 2021.
Guitar and Vocals: The Four Boundless Vows with Jordan McConnell
Jordan McConnell on guitar and vocals, playing a variation on PZI’s Four Boundless Vows. From a Sunday Meditation & Talk with Allison Atwill & Tess Beasley, as recorded May 30, 2021. PZI Zen Online.
Free & Easy Wandering Series: Knock On Any Door with Tess Beasley
Excerpt from a longer session co-hosted with Allison Atwill. Tess tells a story of a transformative moment. As recorded May 31, 2021.
Free & Easy Wandering Series: Knock on Any Door
Allison Atwill & Tess Beasley are guest hosts in John Tarrant’s Free & Easy Wandering Series. They each tell a story of being at a threshold—knocking on doors not knowing who would answer, and how the gifts of the universe appeared. PZI Zen Online, as recorded May 30, 2021. Vows with Jordan McConnell. Music for meditation from Michael Wilding archived separately.
The Way Things Are Is Mysterious & Hard to See – Refuge Vows As Koans
Allison Atwill, Tess Beasley & Jesse Cardin lead us into the heart of PZI practice—what it means to take refuge, and how to work with the vows as koans. Purification Sutra and vows sung and played by musician Jordan McConnell. PZI Digital Temple. As recorded April 25, 2021.
Spring Sesshin: Whatever Appears Is Part of Your Awakening
Allison Atwill talks about the experience of direct encounter in the Peach Blossom koan. Even when I am Mara, it is the treasure that is just for me. PZI Digital Temple. As recorded April 10, 2021.
If Ordinary Mind Is the Way, What Makes It So Hard to See: Our Best Season
Allison Atwill’s portion of the enlightenment firm Atwill, Riddle & Beasley’s case for Ordinary MInd. A story of a best season when everything went wrong in the community kitchen. As recorded Mar. 28, 2021
Standing in Your Own Place
Morning dharma talk by Allison Atwill in Winter Sesshin. As recorded January 19, 2018.