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Dharma Theme: Summer Sesshin 2022 – Taking Part in the Gathering
Great Sesshin, Great Gathering, Summer Moon An extended in-person retreat at Santa Sabina Center in San Rafael, CA with John Tarrant & Friends: June 13th – 19th, 2022 Taking Part…
Dharma Theme: Door After Door Opening Inside, Fall Sesshin 2022
A complete audio record of talks from PZI’s Live-Online Fall Sesshin 2022, October 4-9, 2022….
Dharma Theme: Winter & Silver, Moonlight & Snow – Collected Audio from Winter Sesshin 2022
A curation of Winter Sesshin dharma talks on a single page, for easy finding and listening. A sesshin is always more than the sum of its parts or its recorded…
Summer Sesshin: Closing Ceremony
…ballad and plays mandolin, Cantor Amaryllis Fletcher chants and plays violin for the closing sutras and four boundless vows. Final day of Summer Sesshin, at Santa Sabina, June 19th, 2022….
Dharma Theme: Zen Luminaries, A Series of Conversations with Jon Joseph Roshi
…twenties.” He decided to enter a sesshin at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. On the first day of sesshin, a question spontaneously arose in his mind: “What is it I am…
Fall Sesshin 2022: Falling Into the Well of Sesshin
Falling into the well of sesshin involves dissolving the you that had the problem. In Zen we are solving things one level down. We all have this ability, though it…
Fall Sesshin 2022: Allowing the Fall
…a humility of the earth, fallen into like Psyche into the underworld. Allowing the fall and encountering whatever appears, whatever one meets, is essential. Complete sesshin from October 5, 2022….
The Story of the Well Painting
…interference, and when that drops away, and in sesshin it drops away for everyone at some point, and often for a lot of sesshin. Especially as you fall deeper and…
Fall Sesshin 2022: Falling with NO
…you can’t do anything about. The apparatus of certainty is circumvented and the universe is manifesting and unfolding through us. Excerpt from a sesshin dharma talk recorded October 6, 2022….
Fall Sesshin 2022: Falling with the Koan NO
…of things you can’t do anything about. Sesshin‘s Gate 3 is NO—or Mu—the famous dharmakaya koan that opens the body of reality. NO casts away all the consciousness you have…
The Journey, the Reaching, & Luopu’s Last Words
…ever settle. I’d think, “Here I am in sesshin and I’m not even meditating. I just can’t settle, because my mind has decided that this is ‘Attention Deficit Sesshin.’ I’d…
Fall Sesshin 2022: Jordan McConnell Sings Now Westlin Winds
…and the field of love. The ballad is also known as “Song composed in August,” a Robert Burns song-poem, written around 1783. Recorded on October 7th, 2022 in Fall Sesshin….
Fall Sesshin 2022: Dahui’s Journey, Bodhidharma’s Response, & the Marvelous Duke
Sesshin is an embrace which allows greater freedom to appear, and it is deeply mysterious. We don’t do it for a particular outcome or we would be constraining ourselves. We…
Yuanwu & the Great Masters of the Blue Cliff
…maybe ‘04—it was my first summer sesshin, it was my first sesshin ever. And that sesshin, it started at five o’clock in the morning, I believe, and went all the…
Class 5 Transcript: Bright Gates
…“mu.” When I first did sesshin — and in the Japanese system, in the Yasutani system — the first tesho of any retreat was “Mu.” And it would always be…
Dreams Q & A
…S: When I’m not at sesshin it’s really hard for me to wake up in the morning. My wife will come in and wake me up, but when I come…
Goblins Q & A
…even it yet? S: I’m curious because as you call out to us and we share what’s in our minds, you know it’s two thirds of the way through sesshin,…
KALPA FAQs – How to find what you are looking for in the PZI Library
…tag Summer Sesshin, Fall Sesshin, or Winter Sesshin—plus the year—to get a sesshin-only result. • I want to read transcripts of talks, how do I find those? Select ‘text’ from…
Every Day Is a Good Day
Listen to Audio of this Talk Dharma Talk in Winter Sesshin, February 12, 2020 John: All the beings of the universe are here. In sesshin it’s always there, but it…
Dharma Theme: Baizhang’s Fox – Cause & Effect in a Fox Life
…Atwill, Winter Sesshin 2012 VIDEO: Baizhang’s Fox – with Allison Atwill, Fall Sesshin 2011 Wumen’s poem on the koan of Baizhang’s Fox Not falling, not evading— Two faces of the…
Dharma Theme: The Teachings of Zen Master Ma
…Gone There for You? with John Tarrant, Summer Sesshin 2020 Audio link: There you Are! with David Weinstein, Fall Sesshin 2020 Audio link: The Koan Raft with Jon Joseph, Fall…
Dharma Theme: Spring Sesshin 2021 – After the Dark and the Cold, Come the Blossoms
Our Spring Sesshin, Four Days & Five Nights in the Digital Temple April 7-11, 2021 After the long cold and the dark night, the blossoms open one by one, then…
Winter Sesshin Closing: The Whole World Is Medicine
As we end sesshin, we go forth in the world and the treasure of sesshin is still here. You can’t lose what you entered into while in sesshin. In the…
Dharma Theme – Metamorphosis: Collected Audio from Fall Sesshin 2021
Here is a curation of our Fall Sesshin dharma talks on a single page, for easy finding and listening. A sesshin is always more than the sum of its parts…
Dharma Theme: Summer Sesshin 2021 in the Palace at the Blue Cliff
Here is a curation of sesshin dharma talks on a single page, for easy finding and listening. A sesshin is always more than the sum of its parts or its…
Dongshan’s Five Ranks: Poem 5
…hearing what you said Alanna and what you just said Jennie, because I found during the sesshin I’m calling people and responding to emails and it’s kind of interesting especially…
A Passionate Entry into Life
…Sesshin, which included a refuge ceremony. Someone commented on sesshin difficulties and snafus: “I wouldn’t have it any other way.” Allison Atwill tells of a utility bill that contained all…
Spirit of Love, Joy & Play in Koans
John: Hi. [laughter] Here we are. So tonight, I’d like to talk a little about the mind of sesshin, a little about koans, a little bit about the “Medicine” koan….
Interdisciplinary Artist: Corey Hitchcock
PZI member, Operations and WebAdmin, Interpreter of the Wild Corey Hitchcock is a painter, installation artist, and writer. She lives and works in her studio in Penn Valley, CA. Her…
End of Sesshin Dedication
PZI Sesshin Dedication, generally read (or sung) at the end of sesshin to send participants on their way, in joy….