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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TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Baizhang’s Fox
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There is a fine line between observing the self, selfing the self and dissociation. Basically, in dissociation there is a lack of connection and there lies the difference. Observing the mind in meditation enhances connection, it does not sever it.
It is a common mistake to imagine that meditation leads to a state of serenity in all situations. What meditation does lead us to is being more who we really are and there is a certain equanimity that comes with that. In this koan, the old man is suffering from the belief that it is possible to sever the chains of karma. That it is possible to always move through life with serenity, unaffected by the world around him.
Upon closer observation, over a long time—five hundred lifetimes, the story tells us—he comes to notice the cost of his belief and instead of leaving, as he has done so many times before, he stays. He stays after the talk, and he stays in his life, just as it is, just as he is and he discovers freedom.
What do you notice when you stay and don’t leave? What do you notice when you leave?
—David Weinstein
COME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation, dharma talk and conversation.
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David Weinstein Roshi, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community
