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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MONDAY NOTE: Why Do You Write? Jon Joseph on Upcoming Luminary Jane Hirshfield
March 25 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
(NO MONDAY ZEN MEETING TODAY)
A NOTE FROM JON JOSEPH ON HIS UPCOMING VISIT WITH JANE HIRSHFIELD
Join us this Wednesday March 27th! for a conversation with Zen Luminary poet Jane Hirshfield on her life, work, and new collection, The Asking: New and Selected Poems.
From her book:
I take in the world through image, phrase and metaphor. Poems are a hybrid between the narrative of fiction, the plot line of music, orchestrating the feelings so gorgeously, and paintings which you take in all at once and which gradually change you.
A poem is a field of discovery. It is not the record of something I already know. It is the record of exploration for alchemical transformation or for a pot a rice. The cooking pot is us.
Once in a dream someone asked me, “Why do you write?” I responded, “Because everything is alive.”
I feel this tremendous gratitude for being alive. I have a great debt to this extraordinary existence in which I am able to be part of in this brief lifetime. How lucky it is to breathe in this air, to see this mountain.
About Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is one of America’s leading poetic voices. She has published ten volumes of poetry, including her latest, The Asking: New and Selected Poems, as well as several collections of essays and translations that highlight women’s writing throughout the ages. For a half century, Zen Buddhist practice has been a central stream in Jane’s life and work.
COME JOIN US next for a Zen Luminaries conversation on Wednesday March 27th and on Monday April 1st for koan meditation, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate.
Jon Joseph Roshi
Director of San Mateo Zen Community
