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.
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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 with Guest Host Jesse Cardin & Friends: The Stone Woman Calls Us Back
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A monk asked Hongzhi, “What about the ones who’ve gone?”
Hongzhi said, “White clouds rise to the top of the valleys, blue peaks lean into the empty sky.”
The monk asked, “What about the ones who return?”
Hongzhi said, “Heads covered in white hair, they leave the cliffs and valleys. In the dead of night they descend through the clouds to the market stalls.”
“What about the ones who neither come nor go?”
“The stone woman calls them back from their dream of the world.”
—PZI Miscellanous Koans, Case 34
Leaving the world is an essential stage in the path of Zen. Unmoored from the ballast of desire, we dissolve into the clear solution of spirit. We rise and rise until we disappear into the night sky, lost among the countless twinkling stars.
But the journey does not end there. The other half of our life lies in this world, with its burdens and surprises and beautiful, fragile bodies. And so we return bearing the fresh memory of our celestial ancestry, to find the stars now scattered throughout deserts and cities.
The great joke in the end is that we’ve always been here, listening to the stone woman as she calls us home.
See you Sunday,
—Jesse Cardin
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
