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 with Jesse Cardin & Friends: The Mountains Are/Not Mountains
Enlightenment is a slippery thief. It sneaks up when we’re not looking and *WHAM!* we’ve lost everything. But after a time, it’s just like the old joke about playing a country song backward: except instead of getting your lover and your dog and your truck back, you get your bad habits and your neuroses and your beef with your coworker back. Dogen describes it like this:
Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.
I don’t know about you, but I came to Zen to get enlightened for good. I don’t want the mountains to go back to being mountains and the waters to go back to being waters. But if this is the case, how do we proceed?
Join me. We’ll sit together and explore the great matter with music and joy and great silence.
—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
