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 Michelle Riddle & Friends: Have Confidence in the Light That Is Always Working Inside You
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Whatever confronts you, don’t believe it.
When something appears shine your light on it.
Have confidence in the light that is always working inside you.
—Record of Linji
It can be very seductive to convince ourselves that we need something we don’t have—that something about our circumstances, or our person, could use a bit of improvement.
The funny thing is, in any moment we can’t have what we don’t have or be something other than what we are.
Zen practice calls us to become interested in what is apparent in any moment if we’re not rejecting it. Koans turn us towards our mysterious connection to all things, and also our own unique way of appearing in the world. The way in is our own way of seeing and perceiving, our own inner light.
Linji is instructing us to have some suspicion about the things we think are not ok (how do we know?), and to notice how each of us already has the light we long for.
Join us this Sunday for meditation, music, and stories of our own light. I’ll share some stories from the transmission ceremony this past weekend in which I gave up a lock of hair and gained a new rakusu, a new Zen name, blessings of a community and Zen ancestors, and still nothing was given and nothing taken away.
—Michelle Riddle, 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
