lockdown
‘Fortunate Encounters with Demons, Delusions & Other Unexpected Guests’
Audio: PZI Zen Online – Tess unleashes demons. Demons abound in our lockdown and they can be helpful! Our protective Psychic Immune system and what triggers a response. How we protect our ‘self’ image. Demons tend to employ certainty and cultivate a life or death field of response. What are they protecting? As recorded May 12 2020
‘Don’t Light a Lamp’ Recorded April 30th
AUDIO: PZI Online Zen. David sits with the koan: Bless Poverty. Talk, Meditation & closing music as recorded April 30th, 2020.
‘Trapped in a Stone Crypt’ PZI Zen Online Recorded April 24
PZI Zen Online: Michelle Riddle, Sensei on what we do when we feel trapped – whether from the Covid 19 lockdown, or our own expectations and beliefs. How do we escape? As recorded April 24th.
‘Disorderly karmic consciousness’ Meditation & Talk Recorded April 26
PZI Zen Online: Our ‘disorderly karmic consciousness’. John Tarrant, Roshi on ‘the mind at midnight’ explaining our experience even though we have: ‘No foundation to rely on!’ Koans stop our insistent minds. With an image, or a predicament they allow for a pause, a gate. As recorded April 26th.
‘Knock on Any Door, Someone Will Answer’, Meditation & Talk Recorded April 21
Audio: Allison sits with the beautiful preface to the Blue Cliff Record – before Bodhidharma’s encounter with Emperor Wu. Noticing our strategies of controlling experience, which shut life out. Issa’s story of love and loss. As recorded April 21st.