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
May 7–10: Say A True Word & I Will Stay The Night – Open Mind Retreat with John Tarrant, Tess Beasley, & Allison Atwill
May 17: Sunday Zen with John Tarrant, Allison Atwill & Tess Beasley
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: All Things Fall Under the Law of Change
The Diamond Sutra says,
All things fall under the law of change;
all of existence, all the conditioned paths
are like a dream, a waterfall, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow;
like dew and like a flash of lightning:
this is how you should contemplate it.
When Subhuti heard the Buddha’s words, he understood their meaning and was moved to tears. He said,
“If you hear this sutra, and understand it, receiving and upholding it is no longer difficult. If there shall come into the world, after five hundred years, beings who hear this sermon with sincere understanding, receiving and upholding it, then they would be made most extraordinary. What is the reason? These people would be without the views of a self. Why is that? The view of self then is this non-sign. The views of a person then are this non-sign. What is the reason? Departing, from all signs, they then are called Buddhas.”
The world is not what we name it or think it, and there is no such thing as a self or an other.
This is a wisdom that does not aim at completion and explanation.
—John Tarrant
Our Pacific Zen Mission:
What we do is to provide a vessel for awakening. We keep the old wisdom alive. People go out into the world and do good work and we provide a place where they can grow wise and reflect and be consoled and free even when things are very difficult. This is the famous bodhisattva path. Thank you for showing up and helping us.
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
