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
- This event has passed.
SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant, Allison Atwill & Tess Beasley: Things Are Not As They Appear, Nor Are They Otherwise
In any given moment, we think we know what’s what, but then there’s this other thing happening, the big lumbering aurochs that runs the universe is just ambling along beneath the surface.
Discrepancies appear between our ideas and experience, uncertainty seeps in, which is far more interesting.
You’re supposed to be happy but you feel sick, or you laugh when you’re sad. It’s why buying gizmos does not console us, because the big lumbering aurochs doesn’t care about gizmos.
Awakening is about befriending the aurochs, even praising it.
Join us Sunday as we explore a famous line from the Lankavatara Sutra:
Things are not as they appear, nor are they otherwise.
—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
