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 Tess Beasley & Friends: What Is Buddha? Don’t Keep Hunting Around
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A friend of mine got a buddha tattoo a few years ago from the best artist money could buy. He considered it a reminder to be at peace, something he’d heard about.
Since then he’s moved around the world half a dozen times or so, in search of a place without racism, without war, without anything too old or too new or that reminds him of anything that hurts.
In an old case of The Gateless Gate collection, a student asks Great Ancestor Ma, one of the foundational Chan teachers, What is Buddha? Ma simply replies, This very heart–mind is Buddha. Gateless–Gate then offers a verse:
On a bright day under a blue sky don’t keep hunting around.
If you ask “What is Buddha?”
it’s like declaring your innocence while clutching stolen goods.
What does it mean that we have “it” already? Why do we still suffer if we do?
Join us Sunday for meditation, stories, companions, and the best temple musicians around.
—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
