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: The Courage to Have a Practice
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It’s no small thing to open ourselves to the full spectrum of the universe unfolding, otherwise known as this very heart–mind. Any given moment might bring trembling, rending, deep uncertainty, or inexplicable joy. Sometimes, strangely, it’s the joy and freedom we hold off most.
But in taking up a practice we slowly come to recognize all that’s on offer if we don’t blow past things or turn away, or if we don’t somehow try to make life more reasonable than it actually is.
Shenshan was mending clothes when Dongshan asked, “What are you doing?”
“Mending,” said Shenshan.
“How is it going?” asked Dongshan.
“One stitch follows another,” said Shenshan.
“We’ve been traveling together for twenty years and that’s all you have to say?” said Dongshan. “How can you be so clueless?”
“How do you mend, then?”
“With each stitch the whole earth is spewing flames.”
Another translation of this exchange says, “with each stitch, the earth crumbles,” pointing just the same toward how we can’t hold a tether to reach this moment from the last, but we find ourselves undeniably carried along anyway.
Join us Sunday for meditation, koans, and companions. We’ll be lucky enough to have music, too.
—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
