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. Questions? Contact corey@pacificzen.org.
F E A T U R E D
Sunday Zen with Guest Host Jesse Cardin: August 21st
Weekly Meditation & Talks: Monday – Thursday, join us
Alternating Tuesdays: PZI Talk LIVE! with Gaffney & Hitchcock return in September
Upcoming Retreats: Open Mind w John Tarrant & Tess Beasley
Open Temple: August 1st – September 30th
Next Sesshin: Door After Door Opening Inside w John Tarrant & Friends, October 4-9
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The Journey Continues: Arriving at the Ancient Gate – Searching for Our Old Teacher’s Sacred Bones: Sunday Meditation & Talk with Tess Beasley & Friends
May 29 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Free – $10
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Meditations with Special Guest Host Tess Beasley
Join Tess on Sunday for adventures in the nature of mind and heart.
Secure and intimate with the whole of reality, experienced right here and now, so that you can directly undertake entering the flow and transforming things.
—The Blue Cliff Record, Case 55
Great questions are windows through which we attempt to glimpse the vastness and its intentions for us. They appear unbidden at critical turns in our lives, and intensify as we grow nearer to awakening.
In the ancient Chinese Oracle Bone, the character Great—large, vast, huge—appears in decidedly human form, intimating just how inextricable we are from the unfathomable; and Question—matter, query—appears as a gate.
The koan tradition is a kind of travelogue of entering such gates into the depths of our own being and the being of the universe itself. The old seekers were forever trying to corral things in terms the mind could understand, but the old teachers are still swinging the gates open wide, for us to discover the vastness ourselves.
—Tess Beasley
The journey to enlightenment is always going on whether we notice it or not, even if we are sure that we are headed in the wrong direction. Sometimes you just stroll along and one day a thought appears like a cloud—Hang on, the fullness of this life, the vividness in my hands, is the same as the vividness in the stars. Trees have it, birds have it, tortillas have it, and ants. Things have a perfection in them. Sometimes it’s a shock and sometimes it’s more like, “I knew this all along.” —John Tarrant
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
We remain in a PZI Zen Online format for these weekly gatherings, during this ongoing pandemic time. Join us in the PZI Digital Temple on Sunday.