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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SUNDAY SERIES: Lazy Summer Afternoons Under the Rose Apple Tree with Tess Beasley & Jesse Cardin
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NOTE: save the passcode in your receipt for use this session!
Four-Part Series: August 6, 13, 20 & 27
In this four-part series, we’ll lean into the dog days of summer and explore what the old Chinese masters coined as wu wei, or the high art of doing nothing. We’ll find our own spot under the rose-apple tree and perhaps discover how awakening appears everywhere when we forget to hold it off.
Returning to the World
The hermit of Lotus Peak held up their staff, saying to the group gathered around,
“When the ancestors reached here, why didn’t they decide to stay here?”
Everyone was silent, so the hermit answered herself,
“Because it has no power for the Path.”
Then she asked, “In the end, how is it?”
She answered her own question again, “I put my staff across my shoulders and set off
without a backward glance, going straight into the endless mountains.”
—Blue Cliff Record Case 25 (transl. by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland)
As the old cliche goes, “After the ecstasy, the laundry.” Zen is not just about sitting on a mountain top with a clear mind, problem-free, basking in oneness.
Practice is an endless process of refining, a cycle of going and returning, putting down the burden and taking it back up again. But don’t despair! The ancestors are wise to that, include it, even love it. When the inn-keeper ran to Hakuin, shouting gleefully about her sudden awakening, Hakuin replied, “But what about a pile of shit? Is it there, too?”
The universe is always inviting us to play with it in this way. And so we learn to find rest not just in the clear moments of samadhi, but in loving the bumpy road that dirties our feet and makes us stumble.
—Jesse
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, Tess, Jesse, & all of us at PZI
Registration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.
Dana and donations are gratefully accepted.
Once you register, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:
Sunday Series at 10:30 am Pacific Time
