PZI Events Calendar
W E L C O M E to the PZI Events Calendar! Here you will find all upcoming events and registration links for PZI Zen Online retreats, sesshins, and weekly meditations & talks. Search by individual event, day, or month. Save to your Google Calendar or iCal Calendar. No experience required to participate. All event times are Pacific Time. Questions? Contact Lucas at PZI Support.
F E A T U R E D
April 26: What Is This Light That Everybody Has? – Deep Sit Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Tess Beasley
May 7–10: Say A True Word & I Will Stay The Night – Open Mind Retreat with John Tarrant, Tess Beasley, & Allison Atwill
June 8–14: Dragons & Tigers, Oh My! – Our Great Summer Sesshin with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers
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Special Event – Deep Sit Sunday Zen: Like a Buffalo Through a Window
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This Sunday we’ll extend the temple hours for another deep sit, silence to sink into your bones.
As the mind settles and we pass through the usual chatter and obsessions, more space appears and like stars in the relief of dusk, more interesting questions come into view.
Wondering itself, and the mystery of our own consciousness, becomes less a problem to corral than simply a pleasure to investigate and companion.
Clarity appears and vanishes again, and slowly, slowly, we notice we’re alive and beyond resolution.
One teacher put it like this:
Wuzi said, “It’s like a buffalo passing through a latticed window. Its head, horns, and legs all pass through, but why can’t its tail?”
The tail can be all that remains unanswered in our hearts; the annoying or destructive habits of mind and body we just can’t seem to break. It can be all we wish we’d somehow done differently; but to hold it as a given, and come to know its blessing, is the generosity of practice.
Of this case in the Gateless Gate Collection, Wumen penned the verse:
If it passes through, it falls into a ditch;
if it turns back, it will be lost.
This tiny little tail —
what a strange and wonderful thing it is!
Join us for a morning out on the Great Plains.
—Tess Beasley, Roshi
Schedule (ALL TIMES PACIFIC):
9AM – 11AM – Meditation & Music with Open Temple Leaders
11AM – 12PM – Meditation, Poetry & Reflections with John Tarrant, Tess Beasley & Friends
Meditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you, for doors to open by themselves, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead.
Waking up is something we do together, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.
—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
