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 Guest Host Tess Beasley & Friends: Taking Up the Mountain Path
A monk asked Yunmen, “Where do all the Buddhas come from?”
Yunmen said, “East Mountain walks on the water.”
—Entangling Vines, Case 49
Long before the human story, great beings roamed the earth. They collected clouds and birthed rivers and lived for hundreds of millions of years at a time. They still do.
The ancients called them mountains and often looked to them as gods. The early Zen masters made their homes among them, sometimes taking a mountain name as their own name, sometimes taking a mountain name for their temple, whether it dwelled in the mountains or not.
These old teachers were called “Mountain Openers,” as to enter a mountain gate was to take up the spiritual path and meet the untamed, primordial forces of nature, the nature of one’s own mind.
We enter them still and they live in us, too. Join us this Sunday for deep meditation and encounters in their midst.
—Tess Beasley
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
