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 Lucas at PZI Support.
F E A T U R E D
April 26: What Is This Light That Everybody Has? – Deep Sit Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Tess Beasley
May 7–10: Say A True Word & I Will Stay The Night – Open Mind Retreat with John Tarrant, Tess Beasley, & Allison Atwill
June 8–14: Dragons & Tigers, Oh My! – Our Great Summer Sesshin with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers
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SUNDAY ZEN: Throughout the Six Realms, All Beings Are Free – with Guest Host Jesse Cardin
Sunday Zen in the PZI Online Temple
Throughout the Six Realms, All Beings Are Free
with Guest Host Jesse Cardin
June 18th at 10:30 am Pacific Time
From what I’ve heard, Buddhism is concerned with ending suffering. I guess I am, too.
In one story about Guanyin (our patron saint of compassion), her head literally explodes when she tries to contemplate the suffering of all the beings left in hell. Fortunately, Future-Buddha Amitabha comes along and gives her more heads. But then when she tries to help, her arms explode too! So he gives her a thousand arms. It’s a kind of strategy, I suppose.
If you live in the same world I do, you’d probably agree her work is still not complete. And rightly so! She’s got to clear out the god realm, the demigod realm, the hungry ghost realm, the hell realm, the animal realm, and the human realm. Talk about job security.
So what’s a bodhisattva to do?
Also, in addition to the usual shindig, I’ll stick around for thirty minutes after the program to take any comments and questions that might arise.
Hope to see you there!
—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 Roshi, Jesse Cardin Roshi, & all of us at PZI
(John Tarrant returns for his regular Sunday Zen on June 25th.)
