Audio Recording

The pandemic alters the usual ways we choose. What is ‘picking’ and ‘choosing’? When does choice occur? When do I ‘not choose’, but say yes to life’s flow? David recounts many of life ‘yes’s’ before thinking picking or choosing. How we find what we don’t think we are looking for. As recorded.May 20, 2020.

Audio PZI Zen Online -Taking the role of the host everywhere & abiding Nowhere vs abiding Somewhere guides Allison’s talk. Solitude as resting in vastness. Loneliness when you may even be in company, but something is missing. Revisiting childhood’s solitude and the solitude of mountain trails.As recorded May 19, 2020.

Audio PZI Zen Online- The koan: Sea of Ise inspires Covid dreaming. Dream vacation: scuba diving in Brooklyn Harbor? What is feared opens to beauty. The dark Sea of Brooklyn held a surprise. As recorded May 18 2020

Audio: PZI Zen Online – Sarah investigates the other within and the call of the beloved with ‘The Crag Called Empty One’ & the ‘Lindworm Tale’. Otherness, longing/yearning. What is required of the beloved? As recorded May 15 2020.

Audio PZI Zen Online- Deshan’s story of Mirror Bright Mountain, a Diamond Sutra scholar – his journey to awakening. His meeting with the ‘Tea Shack Lady’ & Dragon Pool. How his journey transforms everything including the destination. Suffering from our views and expertness. As recorded May 17 2020. Music Jordan McConnell, Michelle Riddle, Sarah Bender, Amy Fletcher.

Audio PZI Zen Online – ‘The Sieve’ koan – and the woman finding enlightenment as it sinks in the sea. Michelle enters the nature of the Bodhisattva way and relates ways we find ourselves on that path. Ponders: what are we always trying to escape? As recorded May 8 2020.

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 is the seed of delusion!’ Take the leap into the now. As recorded May 13, 2020

Audio; Jon recants a series of dreams during lockdown for the virus. Dreams appear nightly reminding us not to chase shadows, and lose sight of our lives. They are the lives we are telling and showing. As recorded.

Audio: Zen Online. John Tarrant sits on Mother’s Day with Hakuin’s: ‘The Woman at the the Inn’. Everything shines with a great light. Even in the shit! The mind thinks – ‘Not here, this can’t be it!’ Includes music by Ritchie Domingue, Jordan McConnell & Amy Fletcher.

Audio: PZI Zen online – Awakening experience is outside of our control, our will. It comes in a from a direction we have darkened. The sufficiency of a moment. Hakuin Ikkaku as a teacher. Your essential nature. As recorded May 5, 2020.

Audio: ‘Sickness and medicine heal each other, the whole world is medicine, what are you?’ It would seem like a pretty obvious koan at this time of pandemic, yet, it was only in the last few days that it came to me. I’ve learned to trust that about koans. ‘What are you?’ That also feels like a more intimate translation. As recorded May 6 2020

Audio: ‘Fortunate Encounters with Demons, Delusions & Other Unexpected Guests’. Tess unleashes demons. Demons abound in lockdown – they can be helpful! Our protective Psychic Immune system, what triggers a response? How we protect our habitual image. Demons tend to employ certainty & cultivate a ‘life or death’ response. What are they protecting? As recorded May 12 2020

PZI Zen Online: Our ‘disorderly karmic consciousness’. John Tarrant, Roshi on ‘the mind at midnight’ explaining our experience with ‘No foundation to rely on!’ Koans offer our insistent minds a gate. As recorded April 26th.

Audio: ‘Deshan’s Enlightenment Story’ -Jesse Cardin, Roshi reimagines Deshan’s story. the Tea Shop Lady’s wisdom. The journey of awakening, how we make koans our own, and the role of imagination in Zen. As recorded April 22nd.

‘Peach Blossoms’ – Meditation & Dharma Talk with John Tarrant, plus comments from participants. After seeking a teacher for 30 years, at the sight of peach blossoms across a canyon, a teacher is enlightened.

Audio – ‘The stone woman gives birth in the middle of the night’. Wondrous images of our uncertain ‘gestational time’ in corona virus lockdown. The children of night. As recorded.

Zoom Zen Audio: ‘Freely I Follow the Tracks of the Flying Birds’. Includes: silent meditation, segment with music, followed by a talk and comments.