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 John Tarrant & Friends: The Mysterious Stone Crypt
The Mysterious Stone Crypt
You are locked in a stone crypt. There are no windows and the door is barred from the outside. How will you get out?
—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 20
Great koans give an image for our condition, for climate change, for being at the mercy of our leaders and of our own view. That’s the question we’re carrying: How will we get out? We’re in the same situation as Mr. Toad in Wind in the Willows, locked up in the stoutest dungeon in Merry England.
It’s a beautiful description of what we are in, when we’re in. Whenever we’re suffering, in essence we’re in that stone crypt. And how do we get out? Zen practice is for breaking those locks.
Join us on Sunday for an exploration of breaking out of prison.
—John Tarrant
