PZI Events Calendar
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F E A T U R E D
September 15 Sunday Zen: With John Tarrant & Friends
September 21 Daylong: With John Tarrant & Tess Beasley
October 22–27 Fall Sesshin: with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers
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DAYLONG RETREAT: Midnight in the Bardos with Jesse Cardin
July 8, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
$100 – $125
PZI Online Temple
Saturday, July 8th, 2023
10:00 am–4:00 pm Pacific Time
Midnight in the Bardos
Between one life and the next, there’s a realm the Tibetans call the bardo. It’s like a waiting room between incarnations, filled with the possibility of great danger and profound spiritual potential. It’s good to have a practice, because how we meet the forces we encounter there inform what life we step into next.
There are countless ordinary bardos, too: waiting for a traffic light to turn, a diagnosis to be rendered, a pizza or baby to be delivered. The writer who stares dumbly at a wordless page knows this place, as do the newly sentenced inmate and the attorney waking into her first day of retirement.
Most of the time, we don’t even notice as we pass from one realm to another, but there are other times where we have to carry anxiety, frustration, anger, sorrow, grief, boredom.
I’m intimate with the bardos of writing music. Waiting for the next part of a song to reveal itself, there can be exhilaration and frustration and hopelessness. No matter how much effort I expend, nothing arrives before its time. I’m learning to make a practice of waiting.
I also think of the seven days my wife and I spent in the hospital when my son was born. It was a bizarre time—none of the rooms we stayed in had windows, Covid was in full swing, there were complications before and after the birth that made the air sizzle with uncertainty.
What bardos are you living through?
What is being revealed?
How can we bring our practice to these between times?
What does it mean to align ourselves with the forces of becoming?
I’m looking forward to sitting, exploring, discussing these questions and more with you.
—Jesse Cardin
Retreat Day Details (Pacific Time)
Morning Session: 10:00 am–12:30 pm
Welcome, koan meditation & morning talk
—Lunch Break: one hour—
Afternoon Session: 1:30–4:00 pm
Koan meditation, conversations & closing
Members, $100. Non-Members, $125.
PZI Members: If you want to attend and are in need, please don’t hesitate to request financial aid through a PZI Member Scholarship for a reduced fee that you can comfortably pay. Not a member? Become one.
Registration, membership, or scholarship questions? Contact Corey Hitchcock [email protected]
