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 Mind of Winter
REGISTER
when the winter chrysanthemums go,
there’s nothing to write about
but radishes
—Basho
I find myself hoping for snow, which is silly. I get snow about once a decade in Sonoma County.
Inside snow, though, there is a slow plunge of silence, and the mystery of who I am.
But, also, I like the noisy way we come together in winter, singing and feeling cheery merely because others are in the world with us. Santa Claus is fun, too. Inside Santa is also the mystery of who I am.
I do have oranges on a tree—”golden lamps in a green night,” an old poet called them.
So this Sunday let’s have snow and friendship, or if not snow, perhaps rain will do, or oranges—anyway, let’s have friendship and enlightenment.
Join us.
—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
