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: In the Middle of Things—Silence
REGISTER
On the left we have velociraptors, above we have pterodactyls—not sure if my insurance will cover dinosaurs,
but the mind is always running on, now it’s sunshine and rain days, a spring morning worth a thousand gold pieces says Sudong Po, the time when foxes have their weddings, and you have to peek at the procession from behind a tree.
In the middle we have silence. Silence which allows the madness to settle.
Here’s the old spring koan:
We’re always talking about subject and object
and even not talking is about subject and object,
how do we get beyond subject and object?
The master said, “I’m always thinking of the lakes in March, partridges sing among the fragrant blossoms.”
The reverie of spring with its thousands of gifts is inside and outside. Let’s have that this Sunday.
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
