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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-63/
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-64/
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CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-65/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-66/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-61/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-60/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-59/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Who Is Hearing?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-58/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/DPR-Headshot_500x375.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David is not teaching today\, but will return on January 8th. We hope you join us then!\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-on-break-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-56/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David is not teaching today\, but will return on December 11th. We hope you join us then!\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-on-break-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T160000
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DTSTAMP:20260426T062645
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: How Will You Meet Today?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-57/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/DPR-Headshot_500x375.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T160000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Parks is not teaching today\, but will return on November 13th. We hope you join us then! \n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-51/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-52/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/DPR-Headshot_500x375.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251002T160000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Turning Over the Kettle
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-53/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Compassion: It’s like Reaching for a Pillow in the Night
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-54/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250904T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250904T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: A Hidden Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSabbath and Meditation — Opening to What is Here \nLet’s call it a vacation\, a break\, or maybe even a Sabbath time. It’s a chance to escape the usual week-end and week-out routine I follow the rest of the year. You know\, the one where I’m busy writing the newsletter\, packing the truck with statues and cushions\, my focus on our Thursday Bluegrass Zen meeting in Lexington. Now at the end of my time away\, I’d like to call it Sabbath time. \nSabbath \nIn Abrahamic religions\, Sabbath is a designated day of rest\, marking the 7th day of creation when God took a rest from the other six days of creation. Before time\, God was busy\, you know\, the spirit over the waters\, the light\, the dark\, the separation of the land from the water\, plants\, animals\, human beings. It had been a busy few days\, so it was time for a rest. Likewise it was determined over years of tradition\, that such a day of rest might be good for the community as well. And so\, Shabbat. Sabbath. This day of rest became so important to the Hebrew people\, that its observance became a cornerstone for Jewish law and practice. \nSabbath is a time when activity stops. As labor ceases\, so do its fruits. I cannot point to anything and attach to it as mine. Labor stops and no attainment. From this place\, the heart at rest\, it is possible to notice the life all around and through\, to notice the crow call\, the wind in the pine branches\, the yellows of the sunflowers as they track the sun making its course through the day. Too\, it is a time to notice the interior textures of life as they open\, flow and cascade\, a rumble and thrum\, thoughts and feelings\, a sense of opening before and beyond time. Inside\, outside\, and in between fade and there is “just this.” Sabbath opens time within time\, one taste\, eternity (or as those mystics of the Abrahamic faiths might call it\, God)\, the wholeness hidden in plain sight\, moment by moment. Thomas Merton writes\, in his poem\, Hagia Sophia (wisdom of God)\, a later poem of his influenced by his encounter with DT Suzuki and Rinzai Zen: \nThere is in all visible things an invisible fecundity\, a dimmed light\, a meek namelessness\, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious Unity and Integrity is Wisdom\, the Mother of all\, Natura naturans. There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity\, a silence that is a fount of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being\, welcoming me tenderly\, saluting me with indescribable humility. This is at once my own being\, my own nature\, and the Gift of my Creator’s Thought and Art within me\, speaking as Hagia Sophia\, speaking as my sister\, Wisdom. \nIn this I find the practice of Sabbath\, a noticing and welcoming of the wordless gentle as it rises up in all things\, pointing and participating in life\, in the Dao or if you prefer\, the wisdom of God. Also\, at least for me\, this is the practice of zazen\, seated meditation\, an alertness and a noticing of what is here—right down to the bones. \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-55/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Parks is not teaching today\, but will return on September 4th. We hope you join us then!\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-on-break-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Parks is not teaching today\, but will return on September 4th. We hope you join us then!\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-on-break-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Parks is on break until September 4th. We hope you join us then!\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-on-break/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250710T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250710T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-50/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250626T160000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-49/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250612T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-48/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-47/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Not an Inch of Grass for 10\,000 Miles
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-46/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250501T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250501T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: In the Dark? Darken Further.
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nAt times of vulnerability\, when tough times visit\, this koan takes me to the place I would rather not go—straight into the dilemma\, into the vulnerability itself. Where I might want to take what I know\, an explanation or a solution\, off the shelf\, the koan counsels\, “Darken further\,” inviting me into the vastness of what I don’t know. \nThis is to let go of the barriers that I use to define myself\, these walls that I use to define the borderlines between myself and the places I dare not go. Unencumbered\, out beyond knowing\, the dark is a place of discovery and acceptance. Herein is the shift. Mystery opens into life\, the luminous dark moves through all. \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-45/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Suddenly It’s Midnight
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOnce a student of Dongshan was asked\, “What does your teacher teach?” The student replied\, “He teaches in three ways: the dark way\, the bird path and the open hand.” In the last weeks\, we have been using koans that seem to arise from the dark way. First\, we sat with Bodhidharma and Emperor Wu\, then with the stone woman giving birth in the middle of the night. This week we will sit with Yunmen’s Midnight: \nYou come and go by daylight\, you make people out by daylight. But suddenly it’s midnight and there’s no sun\, no moon\, no lamp. If it’s a place you’ve been to\, then of course it might be possible\, but if it’s a place you’ve never been\, how will you get hold of something? \nAs Yunmen says\, mostly we travel\, make our way through life in the sunlight of a bright day. We know where we are going\, we see our goal off in the distance\, and we make our way. And then\, it is almost inevitable\, it’s midnight and the light\, the clarity of our goal disappears\, and we find ourselves in the dark\, unable to see our own hand in front of our face. This can happen in any area of our lives: relationships\, job\, life plans. We knew where we were going\, what we were doing\, and now\, we don’t know. \nYunmen asks\, “How will you get hold of something?” We might say\, “How do I navigate?” \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-41/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250403T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250403T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: The Stone Woman Brings Forth
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe stone woman gives birth in the middle of the night. \n—PZI Miscellaneous Koans Case 33 \nHere is a koan for transitions. In the darkest hour of night\, in the depths of your not knowing\, there is a quickening\, a stirring. The womb\, or should we say the womb-of-origins\, churning as it awakens to bring forth the new. \nIt could be said that the stone woman in the middle of the night is a koan for winter—the bare trees\, the cold ground\, the seamless cover of snow. In life we have those barren times\, like a woman unable to bear a child\, to bring forth. Here is a koan for the dark of night\, without sight or knowing. And yet\, against all expectation that which is bare is full of life. There is a stone woman giving birth\, a quickening\, the aliveness made manifest. As there is a light inside the dark\, there is a spring in every winter. \nAlso\, I found this in Wendell Berry’s essay\, “A Native Hill.” It could easily serve as a reflection on the stone woman. Employing all the senses Berry finds his place in the pattern of things. \n“Perhaps then\, having heard that silence and seen that darkness\, he will grow humble before the place and begin to take it in—to learn from it what it is. As its sounds come into his hearing\, and its lights and colors come into his vision\, and its odors come into his nostrils\, then he may come into its presence as he never has before\, and he will arrive in his place and will want to remain. His life will grow out of the ground like the other lives of the place\, and take its place among them. He will be with them—neither ignorant of them\, nor indifferent to them\, nor against them—and so at last he will grow to be native–born. That is\, he must reenter the silence and the darkness\, and be born again.” \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-42/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250320T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-43/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Loving Your Life
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nQuick\, don’t get ready!\n\n—Miscellaneous Koans \nLingyun was wandering in the mountains and became lost in his walking. He rounded a bend and saw peach blossoms on the other side of the valley. This sight awakened him and he wrote this poem: \nFor thirty years I searched for a master swordsman\,\nhow many times did the leaves fall\,\nand the branches burst into bud?\nBut from the moment I saw the peach blossoms\,\nI’ve had no doubts. \n—Miscellaneous Koans Case 37 \nLife Practice\nSpiritual practice/Zen practice is life practice\, a laboratory for paying attention to what arises in the day to day of our living. Your life is a gift. In welcoming the gift\, you participate in the great flux\, the endless changes that living brings. \nIt is uncertain how or where a gift might come. Arising from a source not known\, a gift is a surprise to the one who receives. The people you meet\, the opportunities that come as you arise from the unknown source. Surprise! Doors close\, other doors open. Who knew? At times when you are uncertain where to turn or what to do\, a path opens and you take the next step. \nIn meditation and with koans it is much like this. It is best to allow meditation to come to you\, you will meditate as you meditate. Too\, koans will come to you. No need to figure them out or explain them to yourself. What will come\, will come\, as you open to meditation\, koans and life. This life practice is simply to notice and pay attention to what arises here in this moment. \nThe bottom line? You are here. Your practice is to notice\, to pay attention. And what you notice is never what you expected. This gift of life\, from the moment you are born until you die\, is unexpected\, a surprise. \nAs you are opened by life’s surprises\, your heart will recognize something beyond surprise\, beyond imagining: you are not separate. Indeed you live\, breath and have your being in relationship to everything else. So\, one day Lingyun went out into the mountains\, losing his way. He rounded a corner and saw peach blossoms in full bloom across the valley. From that moment on he had no doubts. There was no one to harbor doubt. It was just this. He was awake. Who can prepare for that? So\, “Quick\, don’t get ready!” \nPaying Attention\nI remember time and again being called out by teachers in elementary school. They wrote notes home\, put it in their comments on my report cards\, “Does not pay attention in class.” There is a style of attention that is alert and focused\, the sort of attention that learns multiplication tables\, hears directions for the next assignment\, sticks to the task at hand. Yes\, and elementary school teachers like that sort of attention. However\, attention can go the other way. Alert\, yes\, and open\, casting a wide swath\, noticing connections and relationships as things arise\, including my place in the dance of things. \nIn her most famous poem\, Mary Oliver comes with big questions: \nWho made the world?\nWho made the swan\, and the black bear? \nOnly to be drawn out of speculation into life\, as it come to her in a grasshopper: \nThis grasshopper\, I mean —\nthe one who has flung herself out of the grass\,\nthe one who is eating sugar out of my hand\,\nwho is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down —\nwho is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.\nNow she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.\nNow she snaps her wings open\, and floats away. \nShe brings it home confessing that she does not know much about much; prayer\, paying attention\, on how to be idle and blessed…the very actions that have made up her day: \nI don’t know exactly what a prayer is.\nI do know how to pay attention\, how to fall down\ninto the grass\, how to kneel down in the grass\,\nhow to be idle and blessed\, how to stroll through the fields\,\nwhich is what I have been doing all day. \nMy 6th grade self rejoices\, she does not know how to pay attention\, the attention that narrows and focuses. Instead\, outside of knowing\, her heart is blessed in its idleness\, receiving what comes. This is attention as well\, alert and open\, in connection with what comes (like meditation.) I believe we can call this love. \nLove your Life\nYou have heard it read at most every Christian wedding you have attended. First Corinthians 13\, wherein the writer\, Paul of Tarsus\, speaks of a most excellent way\, the way of love. I have paraphrased this passage a great deal to fit our context: \nLove is patient and kind. It does not envy\, it does not boast. It is not proud. It does not dishonor others\, is not self seeking\, nor is it easily angered. It keeps no records of wrongs. Love does not hold separate\, but opens to life as it comes. Love receives everything\, trusts\, and abides in all. \nSurely love can be our approach to one another\, but more broadly love is an approach to living\, welcoming and trusting what comes. Patient and kind\, love includes\, welcomes. Love will not boast—there is no thing to promote over anything else. It will not seek for self\, for in love there is no self to seek or grab hold of\, or add to what is here. Nor is love easily angered\, there is no thing to protect. We can appreciate life—no\, love life—all of it as it comes our way. That which a separate self might call “good” or “bad\,” all of it is included in our full lives\, endlessly changing and in flux. \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-44/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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