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Audio September 10, 2021
77' 59"
Video May 16, 2022

VIDEO: Do You Abide in Clarity? with Jesse Cardin

Jesse Cardin

Jesse Cardin talks about confusion and clarity: Where do you abide, or want to abide, and how do you move in the world? Clarity isn’t going to save you. A…

6' 24"
Text November 9, 2022

A Great Current Carries Us

John Tarrant

…the report from here. John: Very good. Jesse Cardin, do you have anything to say about these or any other matters? Jesse: Sure. I think I’m feeling the generosity of…

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Audio November 18, 2020

Audio Excerpt: Sugar – Jesse Cardin Sings His Original Song

Jesse Cardin

PZI Zen Online: An audio excerpt from John Tarrant’s Sunday Meditation & Talk. Original song “Sugar” performed by Jesse Cardin Roshi. As recorded Nov 15 2020….

2' 47"
Video May 17, 2022

VIDEO: Hijacked by Confusion with Jesse Cardin

Jesse Cardin

Jesse Cardin gets a phone call about a warrant for his arrest and enters the realms of clarity and confusion. Who can wait quietly till the mud settles? It’s not…

11' 22"
Video May 18, 2022

VIDEO: Refuge vs Creating the Self with Jesse Cardin

Allison Atwill, Jesse Cardin, Tess Beasley

Jess Cardin tells a story about making rock candy. Reflecting on the creation of the self vs the vast field that the precepts live in. April 27, 2021. 3 minutes….

4' 11"

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Dharma Theme April 23, 2021

Dharma Theme: Spring Sesshin 2021 – After the Dark and the Cold, Come the Blossoms

PZI Teachers

…the peach blossoms. —John Tarrant & Friends: PZI Teachers Allison Atwill, Tess Beasley, Jesse Cardin, Jon Joseph, David Parks, Michelle Riddle, and David Weinstein Spring Sesshin talks, music, and meditations…

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Audio March 2, 2022

Dharma Theme: Winter & Silver, Moonlight & Snow – Collected Audio from Winter Sesshin 2022

John Tarrant, PZI Cantor & Musicians, PZI Teachers

…quietly together, the temple bells are inside and outside, and already we are in the new life. —John Tarrant & the Remarkable PZI Teachers: Tess Beasley, Sarah Bender, Jesse Cardin,…

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Audio March 2, 2022

Winter Sesshin: My Heart Is Not at Rest

Jesse Cardin

Deep in Winter Sesshin dedicated to silence, it is difficult to find words. Jesse Cardin tells the story of Zen’s favorite odd couple Yantou and Xuefeng, holed up snowbound on…

49' 57"
Text February 15, 2022

Dharma Theme – Hakuin’s Praise Song for Meditation: Collected Audio

Allison Atwill, Jesse Cardin, Michelle Riddle, Tess Beasley

…resting into our inexhaustible true nature and of glimpsing vast forces always revealing our path home. With PZI Teachers: Allison Atwill Roshi, Tess Beasley Sensei, Michelle Riddle Sensei, & Jesse

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Audio January 19, 2022

Hakuin’s Praise Song for Meditation: 4 Teachers, Part 2 of Four

Allison Atwill, Jesse Cardin, Michelle Riddle, Tess Beasley

…light inwards. When nothing is happening, then reality starts to reveal itself. Jesse Cardin adds, ” I don’t know what to talk about, I *should* always have something to say,…

78' 57"
Audio January 9, 2023

Great Silence at the Beginning: Always Home

Tess Beasley

…lives, and of tending the vastness that is always moving through. January 8: Tess Beasley & Co January 15: Jesse Cardin & Co January 22: Allison Atwill & Co January…

66' 45"
Video March 3, 2023

What Is This? An Ancient Question

John Tarrant

…will change. Vows from Amaryllis Fletcher on violin, and Jesse Cardin on bongos and vocals. Music for meditation from Michael Wilding on flute and didgeridoo. Sunday Zen session with John…

65' 30"
Audio February 24, 2023

What Is This? An Ancient Question

John Tarrant

…will change. Vows from Amaryllis Fletcher on violin, and Jesse Cardin on bongos and vocals. Music for meditation from Michael Wilding on flute and didgeridoo. Sunday Zen session with John…

69' 3"
Audio March 13, 2023

Everywhere – It’s Everywhere You Look

John Tarrant

…we are, you turn the light backward. Objections are full of knowing! Music for meditation from Michael Wilding, vows from Amaryllis Fletcher and Jesse Cardin. Sunday Zen session recorded February…

63' 5"
Audio April 26, 2022

Beyond Clarity & Confusion

Jesse Cardin

Jesse Cardin gets a phone call about a warrant for his arrest and enters the realms of clarity and confusion. Who can wait quietly till the mud settles? It’s not…

92' 45"
Audio March 2, 2021

Meditation: Put Out That Fire across the River

Jesse Cardin

An 18-minute guided koan meditation with Jesse Cardin Roshi of PZI & Awakened Insight in San Antonio, Texas….

18' 49"
Video February 24, 2023

The Vows with Amaryllis and Jesse

Amaryllis Fletcher, Jesse Cardin

From a Sunday Zen session with John Tarrant (What Is This?): Amaryllis plays a violin intro for Jesse‘s rendition of the Four Vows on bongos and vocals. 3-minute clip recorded…

2' 50"
Audio May 28, 2020

Song Man – Finding a Song

Jesse Cardin

PZI Zen Online Audio: Jesse talks about the creative practice of koan work and finding (writing) a song, following the breadcrumbs of insight, allowing the uncertainty. Everything moves toward “birth…

73' 16"
Video February 8, 2020
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Audio April 9, 2020

Don’t Be Fooled By Others

Jesse Cardin

PZI Zen Online Audio: Meditation session with Jesse Cardin. As recorded April 1 2020….

89' 29"
Audio April 9, 2020

Save A Ghost

Jesse Cardin

PZI Zen Online Audio: Jesse Cardin Roshi takes us on a journey to the underworld through myth and story with Odysseus, Circe, Hades. Includes intro to the koan “Save a…

89' 18"
Audio January 31, 2022

Hakuin’s Praise Song for Meditation: 4 Teachers Part 4 of 4

Allison Atwill, Jesse Cardin, Michelle Riddle, Tess Beasley

…Praise Song for Meditation – Part 4, recorded January 30, 2022. Exquisite music for meditation from Michael Wilding & concludes with the Four Boundless Vows sung acapella by Jesse Cardin….

80' 49"
Audio April 23, 2021

Spring Sesshin 2021: The Lostness & Wandering on the Pilgrim’s Path

Jesse Cardin

PZI’s Jesse Cardin, Director of It’s Alive Zen in San Antonio, Texas, reminds us that lostness is part of peach blossoms, and explores how that might appear on the second…

54' 1"
Audio April 27, 2021

The Way Things Are Is Mysterious & Hard to See – Refuge Vows As Koans

Allison Atwill, Jesse Cardin, Tess Beasley

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…

70' 47"
Audio June 29, 2021

Vows as Koans – Part 2: I Vow to Do Good

Allison Atwill, Jesse Cardin, Tess Beasley

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…

75' 55"
Audio June 29, 2021

Vows as Koans – Part 3: I Vow to Do Good for Others

Allison Atwill, Jesse Cardin, Tess Beasley

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…

79' 56"
Video February 14, 2023
15' 28"
Audio May 14, 2020

Don’t Come to This Talk! – Gobblers of the Dregs

Jesse Cardin

Audio: ‘King’ Jesse is tired of talking about Zen, drinking the dregs of the real. He talks about the aliveness of his starter dough recipe vs ‘talking about Zen’. ‘Hope…

81' 41"
Audio April 24, 2020

Deshan Re-dreamed

Jesse Cardin

Jesse reimagines Deshan’s classic enlightenment story. He looks at some of the essential features of the journey of awakening, how we make koans our own, and the role that imagination…

85' 51"