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: Without Comparing Yourself With Others
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Without comparing yourself with others, take a step. “But what will they think of me?” You might ask.
“Ah, who cares?” We live for a short time and every moment is sacred, every moment free. And then we have the idea of kawai—Everyone is cute like Hello Kitty, and having a good time being themselves.
Walking in the moonlight, walking after the moon has set, a solemn step and another.
Here’s the koan about what happens when you stop comparing:
Shoushan said to his assembly, “If you get it the first time you hear it, you’ll teach buddhas and ancestors. If you get it the second time you hear it, you’ll teach gods and humans. If you don’t get it until the third time, you won’t even be able to save Yourself.”
A student asked, “When did you get it?”
Shoushan said, “The moon sets at midnight, I walk alone through the town.”
—Book of Serenity Case 76
—John Tarrant Roshi
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
