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 ZEN: Loving the World That Carries Us All, Part 2 with John Tarrant & Friends
December 4, 2022 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Free – $10REGISTER
The sparrow launches
from a pear branch, and a yellow
leaf sets off too
on its own, different journey.
The world carries us from the moment we are born.
When I feel our time, it seems to be an aurochs, huge and stubborn and horned, and my face is up against its rough, hairy hide, and its roaring is in my ears. There is plenty of hatred and violence in our times, and still, these are the conditions we have been given. Loving our lives seems easily the best attitude to the dilemma of living.
In this way we make of ourselves a raft or ferryboat for others.
There is a spiritual quality to autumn that is interleaved with the gold and blue, the loneliness, the loss of summer, and the piling up of years. And in this condition, which we all have, autumn is golden; the journey we are on can be golden too.
Appreciating each other is something I like best when it just happens. It is not a virtue but an impartial force. Even if I don’t like someone, secretly underneath I might notice that I’m amused—secretly I wish them the power to live.
And then an ear worm appears: I’m going around singing Violeta Para’s Gracias a la Vida, and as I begin to wonder about this, I notice Louis Armstrong’s voice saying, “How do you do, they’re really saying, ‘I love you!’”
Thanks is yellow and golden this year.
Perhaps I’ll see you on Sunday. And thank you.
—John Tarrant
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
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Sunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
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