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Dharma Theme: Summer Sesshin 2022 – Taking Part in the Gathering
…to Sesshin: We Are Interwoven with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers, and HOPs Todd Geist & Michelle Riddle DAY TWO, TUESDAY JUNE 14th Audio: Michelle Riddle – The Porous Vessel…
Dharma Theme: Immensity is Tapping – Zen Tuesdays
…Sarah Bender Roshi, Michelle Riddle Sensei Awakening Tapping on Your Window: Encountering the Immensity of Life Poet Jane Hirshfield writes, “softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.” In…
Dharma Theme: Spring Sesshin 2021 – After the Dark and the Cold, Come the Blossoms
…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…
Dharma Theme – Metamorphosis: Collected Audio from Fall Sesshin 2021
…the Miscellaneous Koans—the collection that opens the marvelous nature of the world and awakening. Enter here. PZI Teachers: John Tarrant, Allison Atwill, Tess Beasley, Jon Joseph, David Parks, Michelle Riddle,…
Secret Fidelity & One Finger Zen, Even in the Bardos
…say, which is Michelle Riddle. Ah, here she is. Michelle Riddle Roshi: I briefly lost all the Zoom screen, and it all just disappeared. [laughs] John: That’s good, good for…
Spring Sesshin 2021: Welcome & Talk with Michelle Riddle
Michelle Riddle welcomes all Spring Sesshin participants and gives a dharma talk. See summary. As recorded April 7, 2021….
Wash Your Bowls with Michelle Riddle
PZI Zen Online: October Zen Tuesday with Michelle Riddle Sensei. Zhaozhou’s message to a novice, “Wash your bowls.” A zendo plaque in Japan, “Look under your feet.” Focus on what…
Audio Excerpt: Kindnesses and the Appearance of Guanyin, with Michelle Riddle
PZI Zen Online: Audio excerpt from Guanyin in the Pavilion Under the August Moon. Michelle Riddle Sensei reflects on the kindnesses that appear as Guanyin, as she shifts the ground…
Guanyin Touches the Earth – In the Pavilion Under the August Moon with Michelle Riddle Sensei
Audio – PZI Zen Online – Guanyin in the Pavilion with Michelle Riddle Sensei -Touching earth as Guanyin. Falling – Layman Pang and his daughter Ling Zhao fall together. The…
What Moves? How are you part of it? with Michelle Riddle, Sensei
…or dance but how am I part of it? Michelle shares various audio files T.S. Elliot reading a poem, David Bryne & Brooklyn Youth Choir. As recorded May 22, 2020….
Dharma Theme: Guanyin In the Pavilion Under the August Moon
…to Guanyin in the Pavilion with Tess Beasley Sensei & Sarah Bender Roshi Earth: AUDIO: Guanyin Touches the Earth with Michelle Riddle Sensei AUDIO EXCERPT: Awakening is Participating in Every…
Dharma Theme: Gathering in the Valley of Our Time – All Sessions & Excerpts
…Tarrant & Friends: Allison Atwill, Tess Beasley, Sarah Bender, Jon Joseph, David Parks, David Weinstein & Michelle Riddle What we have known and depended on is dissolving in the valley…
Special Program: 4 Teachers & 4 Boundless Vows: 4th Vow – with Michelle Riddle
Part 4: I vow to live the Great Buddha Way. Michelle Riddle takes up the 4th of the 4 Vows. What seems impossible may not be possible to ignore! Koans…
A True Person of No Rank, No Color, No Gender: Seeing Through All Distinctions
…than just fighting yourself. Being yourself. The true person. No rank. So I guess I wanted to bring a couple of other voices in. [PZI Sensei] Michelle Riddle is on…
Summer Sesshin: Closing Ceremony
…Amanda Boughton on vocals and mandolin, and cantor Amaryllis Fletcher on violin. Michelle Riddle, Head of Practice for sesshin, closes the retreat and thanks all who helped. Todd Geist gives…
Dharma Theme – Hakuin’s Praise Song for Meditation: Collected Audio
…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…
More Spells for Passing Through Danger & Demons
…many by buddhas?” Yangshan responds, “They were all spoken by demons!” Michelle Riddle & Jon Joseph each chant the Zen spell to dispel demons: (a dharani, not quite a sutra:)…
Dreams of Awakening: A Familiar Face from Long Ago
…gold is wherever you are. Tess Beasley comments on the images in dreams and how there are patterns. She reads Hakuin’s amazingly vivid awakening dream from his journal. Michelle Riddle…
Dharma Theme: Summer Sesshin 2021 in the Palace at the Blue Cliff
…Parks, Michelle Riddle & David Weinstein Heads of Practice: Jan Brogan & Chris Gaffney _______________________________________________ Here are the Summer Sesshin Dharma Talks, along with musical excerpts from Cantor Amaryllis Fletcher…
Spring Sesshin: The Interwoven Journey of Sesshin and Life
…poets and teachers before him, among them Li Bai and Du Fu, Ikkyu, and Rikyu. Michelle Riddle Sensei said recently, “We never truly know what we are participating in.” Our…
Heart Sutra Variations
…it printed, 50 of them printed to send out as gifts to donors and people. Then I gave one of the very first ones to Michelle Riddle – I got…
Dharma Theme: The Teachings of Zen Master Ma
…Sesshin 2020 Audio link: Vials of Light with John Tarrant, Summer Sesshin 2020 Audio link: What is Your Response? with Michelle Riddle, June 2020 Text – Transcription link: The Method…
Important Details for PZI Fall Sesshin
…Sarah Bender Michelle Riddle Tess Beasley LEADERS Chris Gaffney – Morning Head of Practice Jan Brogan – Evening Head of Practice Amaryllis Fletcher – Cantor Jordan McConnell and Michael…
Dharma Theme: Winter & Silver, Moonlight & Snow – Collected Audio from Winter Sesshin 2022
…Eduardo Fuentes, Jon Joseph, David Parks, Michelle Riddle, & David Weinstein Heads of Practice: Jan Brogan & Chris Gaffney Here are the Winter Sesshin dharma talks in consecutive order: **More…
Following the Scent of Flowers
…have the—I lent my usual bell to a friend—to Michelle, who’s teaching on Fridays sometimes. Because I didn’t like her bell, [laughs] I have the timekeeper’s bell from the zendo….
Spirit of Love, Joy & Play in Koans
…photo with Barack or Michelle, and they are beaming, and it’s so fun. And it seems so hokey and wonderful, [laughter] so clueless. Anyway, I must have some somewhere [sic]…
If Ordinary Mind Is the Way, What Makes It So Hard to See: It’s Closer Than You Think
Michelle Riddle’s portion of the PZI enlightenment firm Atwill, Riddle & Beasley’s case for Ordinary Mind. As recorded March 28, 2021….
Dharma Theme: Zen Luminaries, A Series of Conversations with Jon Joseph Roshi
…said of Hirshfield: It is arguable that the riddle, the existential joke of being, of meaning, of Dickinson’s ‘prank of the Heart at play on the Heart,’ is as powerful…
Put Out the Fire – A Panel on Koan Practice & Pain
…say, it was not a riddle, but was my whole existence. And then, as a teacher talking with koan friends, I have heard a lot of stories of chronic pain—inspiring…