PZI Events Calendar
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F E A T U R E D
October 6: Sunday Zen at 10:30 AM PDT with John Tarrant & Friends
October 22–27 Fall Sesshin: The 1000-Armed Goddess of Mercy
November 16 Daylong: Zen and the Goddess Part II
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MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Every Year a Tomato Year
September 16 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Free – $10
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Every Year a Tomato Year
Yunmen said, “I’m not asking you about before the full moon. Come and say a word or two about after the full moon.”
And he himself replied, “Every day is a good day.”
— The Blue Cliff Record Case 6
For me, every year is a tomato year. For some decades, I have planted tomato seeds in the late winter, guarded them from snails as they became small starts, planted and watered them in the early summer, and in August and September harvested, blanched, roasted, canned or froze them. And through those late summer months, I have but one meal in the morning: sliced tomato with a dab of mayonnaise on a piece of toast. Morning after morning. Every year is a good year. And before we use the tags of good and evil, it is just a year. Somehow, that itself is a celebration.
Pablo Neruda’s poem Ode to Tomatoes begins:
The street
filled with tomatoes
midday,
summer,
light is
halved
like a tomato,
its juice
runs
through the streets…
Join us Monday.
—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
