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 21 Daylong: Zen and the Goddess Part I
September 22 Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends
October 22–27 Fall Sesshin: The 1000-Armed Goddess of Mercy
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SUNDAY ZEN: Mother’s Day – The Queen of Heaven Who Bears Us in Her Reverie with John Tarrant & Friends
May 12 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Free – $10
REGISTER
The Day of the Mother, the Day of the Queen of heaven crowned with stars: We bear her with us in our reverie because she bears us in her reverie.
Meditation can allow us first to tolerate and then to enjoy our own feelings and to take delight in others. It makes room for intimacy. Meditation itself is a kind of good mother.
The original intimacy is always with us underneath our complaints and longings.
Vasilisa the Beautiful is the heroine in a Russian fairy tale. Before Vasilisa’s mother died she gave her daughter a little wooden doll. And whenever Vasilisa was in trouble and about to be eaten by the witch, she fed the doll a little, gave it a little beer to drink, and the doll gave her wise counsel. Her mother’s love went with her everywhere and saved her. The blessing made her life beautiful.
The image of Guanyin and the original blessing of the mother is always with us. It makes our lives beautiful.
Join us on Sunday.
—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
Dana and donations are gratefully accepted.
Once you register, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:
Sunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
