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: Into the Crucible
A student asked Dongshan, “When cold and heat come, how can we avoid them?”
Dongshan said, “Why don’t you go to the place where there is no cold or heat?”
The student asked, “Where’s the place with neither cold nor heat?”
Dongshan said, “When it’s cold, the cold kills you. When it’s hot, the heat kills you.”
—Blue Cliff Record Case 43
Things are changing quickly in our world. As the old arrangements fall apart, what we can do is have a real, spiritual life.
We just printed our beautiful new sutra books and included a quote from Basho, “Never think that your life doesn’t count.”
It’s good to have a connection to the great matter. A true inner life shows us our place in the universe.
We hold the center and the vastness.
Just as the daffodils of February do.
Join us on Sunday.
—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
