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 John Tarrant & Friends: Endarkening – Deeper Into the World
Lost and in the Dark
You come and go by daylight, you make people out by daylight.
But suddenly it’s midnight and there’s no sun, no moon, no light.
If it’s a place you’ve been to, then of course it might be possible,
but if it’s a place you’ve never been, how will you get ahold of something?
—Yunmen
Zen takes us deeper. We feel, taste, touch, hear, see, and remember the world in a complete meeting. We become what we see.
We do this when our thoughts stop telling us what to do, think, and feel.
One way of considering this is that the thoughts fall out of our mind, and we are in darkness. That is where we can become true to ourselves. This is where the enchantment of the world is all around 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
