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 Emlyn Guiney
F E A T U R E D
September 8 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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MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Ordinary Beings and Buddhas Don’t Mingle
July 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Free – $10
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Ordinary beings and Buddhas don’t mingle together.
Mountains by nature are high, and waters by nature are deep.
The infinite distinctions, the endless differences reveal—
where partridges sing, the myriad flowers bloom.
—Dongshan’s Five Ranks, Fourth Verse of Second Set
In this verse by one of the great Chan-Zen masters and poets of the Tang era, the ordinariness of the world is revealed as the natural way of things. Buddhas and ordinary beings don’t mingle because we can’t distinguish them.
Naturally, mountains are high and waters deep. Even the endless ways in which we separate ourselves from the world—the ten thousand differences and thousand distinctions—are not wrong, not a problem. It is that very delusion and dark matter that makes a place for partridges to sing and flowers to bloom.
—Jon Joseph
COME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome.
Jon Joseph Roshi, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
