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: In the Gaps, the Whole Universe
With empty hands I pick up the hoe.
As I walk, I ride the water buffalo.
As I cross the bridge, the bridge flows, the water is still.
—Mahasattva Fu
It’s a promising moment when what have been our perfectly good delusions begin to wear out.
Suddenly we can’t go along with what we once did, or can’t convince ourselves of the same reasons. Or maybe less suddenly, the old story we’ve carried just doesn’t quite hold together anymore, and a gap appears. This is the same gap that ushers in awakening.
But the trick is when the old car we’ve been tooling around in starts to sputter, not to just tape the fender or drag the engine into the shop. The trick is to open to a new way of moving.
Koans relish and potentiate these gaps as moments the whole vast universe tucked inside each moment can appear.
—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
