Welcome to the PZI KALPA Library!
KALPA—Koans And Liberation Project Archive—the online Zen koan library of Pacific Zen Institute, was conceived as a way of providing a wider circle for today’s far-flung seekers to sit together, to enter the same timeless questions, and to receive the teachings. Browse selected posts as a guest, or to access the entire collection, and for downloadable audio of meditations and talks, join us as a PZI Member.
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Nightmares in the Closet, Anxiety, & the Deepest Meditation
In the world of anxiety and stress we can always help others. And that’s what we do. The thing is not to seize a delusion to believe in.
The Golden Wind Is Revealing Itself
We don’t get much say over what the world does and we don’t get much say over what enters our minds. Our job is to hold steady for the world, for those to come, to make a path for people to follow.
Gratitude Like Sunrise Spreads Across the Land
Some time ago, I wrote a poem called, “Thank you is red.” OK, but what other colors are on the horizon?
Invoking the Light: A New Year’s Meditation Revel
The old boat is sailing off laden with its gifts and sorrows, and the New Year—who knows what it will bring, what we will discover, what new fear will confront us and what we will love?
Invoking the Light: A New Year’s Meditation Revel
In order to wake up we need to fall asleep, to surrender to the great current that we know little about and which we cannot control or direct.