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 Guest Host Jon Joseph: The Journey Itself Is Home
The months and days are like travelers of a hundred generations; the passing years are also like travelers. For those who spend their lives on a boat drifting offshore or grow old leading a horse by the mouth, every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Thus opens Matsuo Basho’s greatest travel journal, a collection of prose and short verse detailing his 1,500-mile journey through the wild north of 18th century Japan. Considered dangerous travel at the time, it became for him his richest of experiences.
On that route Basho met the whole of life: He heard peasants singing rice-planting songs in spring, was mired in muddy tracks in May, sobbed at the thick summer grasses growing over an ancient battlefield, and was plagued by the fleas and lice sleeping with him in a horse’s stall. At the end he stood on the dark seashore as ocean waves crashed under a full autumn moon.
Basho’s travels to the interior are not different from our own journey inward. We begin this path thinking it narrow and perhaps even perilous. But with time, with practice together, our hearts and minds begin to open and widen and we feel more generous. We realize that the spring is green and wet, the summer smokey and hot—all as they should be. August tomatoes arrive on time, welcoming us to this grand adventure. It is a good path, this one. One worthy of our lives.
Join us.
–Jon Joseph
Sunday Zen with Guest Host Jon Joseph, August 11th, 2024
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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Once you register, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:
Sunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
