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 Tess Beasley & Friends: It’s Not So Hard
On a dusky evening late in Winter, early in Spring, a woman found herself entering a temple. Just why is hard to know.
But a seat had waited for her, and as she tucked in her legs and heard the chorus of soft breathing, her own breath seemed to join in, and this intrigued her.
Then teacher began to speak:
There’s a Buddha of infinite light in your own body, he said.
Once that Buddha appears, mountains, rivers, trees, and the whole earth suddenly shine with a great light. To see this, you have to look inside your own heart.
This, too, was intriguing. That doesn’t sound so hard, thought the woman.
Join us Sunday for a tale of awakening to the ordinary brilliance of each and everything. It’s nice to remember it’s not so hard.
—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
