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 Guest Host Tess Beasley & Friends: Like a Moth to a Flame, the Draw of Practice
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A monk asked Yunmen, “What was Niutou after he met the Fourth Ancestor?”
Yunmen said, “The moth in the flame swallows the tiger.”
Something draws us toward this fire called illumination. Whether in response to curiosity, great change, or some kind of deep ache, we begin to make our way out of the dark with questions and longing—not just once, but again and again.
Many stages unfold as we draw near and take up a real practice, many more as practice deepens. Hunger, relief, delight, despair… doubt. How to progress, we wonder. Do we have what it takes? Resistance plays its role, too, showing us what we fear most to let go.
There’s no rushing transformation, but there’s no need either. As Wumen writes in his Gateless Gate collection:
Because it’s so very clear,
it takes so long to realize.
As soon as you know that a candle flame is fire,
you’ll discover your rice has long been cooked.
Join us Sunday for meditation, stories of practice, and company of the finest temple musicians around.
—Tess Beasley
P.S. John Tarrant is continuing to recover well in the care of his summer garden. He’ll happily be teaching in Bolinas next weekend and, with any luck, be back in the temple August 17th.
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
