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: Hanging From a Branch by Your Teeth
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“Mummy, why does it keep on changing?” asked the young rhino. “I mean it’s fire one minute and flood the next, not to mention the hyenas.”
“Yep.”
“Why?”
“First Noble Truth.”
“What does that mean?”
“It means that it’s like that. A dream, a bubble, a flash of lightning.”
“Isn’t that, well, intense?”
“Knowing about it helps. The mind is calm.
Everything changes, everything falls apart, catches fire, then drowns.
A dream, a bubble, a flash of lightning.”
“Mummy, is there anything good about this?”
“You can see that you are connected to everything in the universe, the stars for example. That’s what ‘hanging from a branch by your teeth’ means.”
“Really, Mummy? I meant, can I have an apple? I love apples.
Also, can we have snow? I’d like to see snow.”
Join us for the mysteries of fire and rain.
—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
