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SUMMARY:Great Fall Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Great Fall Sesshin in Session\nThe Autumn of Awakening \nDAY FOUR \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nMount Madonna in California \nOctober 13–19\, 2025
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/great-fall-sesshin-in-session-5/
LOCATION:Mount Madonna Center\, 445 Summit Road\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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SUMMARY:Great Fall Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Great Fall Sesshin in Session\nThe Autumn of Awakening \nDAY THREE \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nMount Madonna in California \nOctober 13–19\, 2025
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/great-fall-sesshin-in-session-3/
LOCATION:Mount Madonna Center\, 445 Summit Road\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T060000
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SUMMARY:Great Fall Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Great Fall Sesshin in Session\nThe Autumn of Awakening \nDAY TWO \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nMount Madonna in California \nOctober 13–19\, 2025
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/great-fall-sesshin-in-session-2/
LOCATION:Mount Madonna Center\, 445 Summit Road\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251012T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251012T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250815T133300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T112251Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:ON BREAK for Great Fall Sesshin. Join us again on October 26h! \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-70/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250921T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250921T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250815T133336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T173342Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: In the Gaps\, the Whole Universe
DESCRIPTION:With empty hands I pick up the hoe.\nAs I walk\, I ride the water buffalo.\nAs I cross the bridge\, the bridge flows\, the water is still. \n—Mahasattva Fu \n\nIt’s a promising moment when what have been our perfectly good delusions begin to wear out. \nSuddenly we can’t go along with what we once did\, or can’t convince ourselves of the same reasons. Or maybe less suddenly\, the old story we’ve carried just doesn’t quite hold together anymore\, and a gap appears. This is the same gap that ushers in awakening. \nBut the trick is when the old car we’ve been tooling around in starts to sputter\, not to just tape the fender or drag the engine into the shop. The trick is to open to a new way of moving. \nKoans relish and potentiate these gaps as moments the whole vast universe tucked inside each moment can appear. \n—Tess Beasley \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends-74/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250914T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250914T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: The Courage to Have a Practice
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIt’s no small thing to open ourselves to the full spectrum of the universe unfolding\, otherwise known as this very heart–mind. Any given moment might bring trembling\, rending\, deep uncertainty\, or inexplicable joy. Sometimes\, strangely\, it’s the joy and freedom we hold off most. \nBut in taking up a practice we slowly come to recognize all that’s on offer if we don’t blow past things or turn away\, or if we don’t somehow try to make life more reasonable than it actually is. \nShenshan was mending clothes when Dongshan asked\, “What are you doing?”\n“Mending\,” said Shenshan.\n“How is it going?” asked Dongshan.\n“One stitch follows another\,” said Shenshan.\n“We’ve been traveling together for twenty years and that’s all you have to say?” said Dongshan. “How can you be so clueless?”\n“How do you mend\, then?”\n“With each stitch the whole earth is spewing flames.” \nAnother translation of this exchange says\, “with each stitch\, the earth crumbles\,” pointing just the same toward how we can’t hold a tether to reach this moment from the last\, but we find ourselves undeniably carried along anyway. \nJoin us Sunday for meditation\, koans\, and companions. We’ll be lucky enough to have music\, too. \n—Tess Beasley \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends-75/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250907T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250907T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Sickness & Medicine Correspond
DESCRIPTION:Sickness and medicine are in accord with each other.\nThe whole world is medicine.\nWhat am I? \n—Yunmen \nIt is well known that this life is not a place that we can stay long. We are guests in the world\, and what is happening to us in the darkness is that our character is transforming. A blade of grass\, the sound of a truck\, the tsst! tsst! of a hummingbird\, everything is included. \nSickness and medicine correspond with each other… \nDear Sickness\,\nI’m wondering how you are. \nYour friend\, Medicine. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-76/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250831T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250831T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is on break through August\, but will return on September 7th. Join us!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-65/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250824T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250824T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250626T141115Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is on break throughout August and will return September 7th. Join us!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-66/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250817T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250817T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is on break through August\, but will return on September 7th. Join us!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-67/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250810T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250810T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250626T141136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250722T160307Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is ON BREAK today\, but will return on August 17th. We hope you join us then!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-68/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250706T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250706T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250626T141233Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Jesse Cardin & Friends: One Strip of White Silk
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nOne strip of white silk. \nIt’s an ancient image in Chan\, the whole universe as one strip of white silk. And it is currently on display everywhere: the morning breeze sweeps eucalyptus leaves across the pavement; someone down the street is shouting and I feel disturbed; the Laguna Canyon stretches down to the sea before me. \nShitou said\, \nWe and everything we perceive\nare interwoven and not interwoven\,\nand this interweaving continues on and on\,\nwhile each thing stands in its own place. \nThis is not something to believe but a possibility to open ourselves to. As the mind settles\, our sensing sinks down and in\, like raindrops penetrating the soil. The entire bright universe bursts into being\, a flower simultaneously in full bloom and always unfolding. \nLooking forward to sitting with you on Sunday! \n—Jesse Cardin \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-guest-host-jesse-cardin-friends-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250622T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250622T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250415T205752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250415T205752Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:John Tarrant is on break today for sesshin. Join us again on June 29th!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-on-break/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250622T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250622T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250616T121644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T121644Z
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SUMMARY:PZI Great Summer Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Great Summer Sesshin Is in Session\nMountain Flowers Bloom Like Brocade\, Valley Streams Are Deepest Indigo \nCLOSING DAY \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nMount Madonna in California \nJune 16–22\, 2025
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-25-summer-sesshin-in-session7/
LOCATION:Mount Madonna Center\, 445 Summit Road\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250621T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250621T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250616T121649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T121649Z
UID:10002094-1750528800-1750537800@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:PZI Great Summer Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Great Summer Sesshin Is in Session\nMountain Flowers Bloom Like Brocade\, Valley Streams Are Deepest Indigo \nDAY SIX \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nMount Madonna in California \nJune 16–22\, 2025
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-25-summer-sesshin-in-session6/
LOCATION:Mount Madonna Center\, 445 Summit Road\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250620T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250620T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250616T121658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T121658Z
UID:10002093-1750399200-1750451400@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:PZI Great Summer Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Great Summer Sesshin Is in Session\nMountain Flowers Bloom Like Brocade\, Valley Streams Are Deepest Indigo \nDAY FIVE \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nMount Madonna in California \nJune 16–22\, 2025
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-25-summer-sesshin-in-session5/
LOCATION:Mount Madonna Center\, 445 Summit Road\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/poppies500.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250619T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250619T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250616T121700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T121700Z
UID:10002092-1750312800-1750365000@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:PZI Great Summer Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Great Summer Sesshin Is in Session\nMountain Flowers Bloom Like Brocade\, Valley Streams Are Deepest Indigo \nDAY FOUR \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nMount Madonna in California \nJune 16–22\, 2025
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-25-summer-sesshin-in-session4/
LOCATION:Mount Madonna Center\, 445 Summit Road\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/poppies500.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250618T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250618T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250616T121703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T121703Z
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SUMMARY:PZI Great Summer Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Great Summer Sesshin Is in Session\nMountain Flowers Bloom Like Brocade\, Valley Streams Are Deepest Indigo \nDAY THREE \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nMount Madonna in California \nJune 16–22\, 2025
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-25-summer-sesshin-in-session3/
LOCATION:Mount Madonna Center\, 445 Summit Road\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250617T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250617T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250616T121706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T121706Z
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SUMMARY:PZI Great Summer Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Great Summer Sesshin Is in Session\nMountain Flowers Bloom Like Brocade\, Valley Streams Are Deepest Indigo \nDAY TWO \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nMount Madonna in California \nJune 16–22\, 2025
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-25-summer-sesshin-in-session2/
LOCATION:Mount Madonna Center\, 445 Summit Road\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250616T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250622T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250409T212407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250724T001109Z
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SUMMARY:Great Summer Sesshin: Mountain Flowers Bloom Like Brocade\, Valley Streams Are Deepest Indigo
DESCRIPTION:CLOSED\n\n2025 Great Summer Sesshin:\nMountain Flowers Bloom Like Brocade\,\nValley Streams Are Deepest Indigo.\nIn Person with John Tarrant\, Allison Atwill\, Tess Beasley\, Jon Joseph\, Michelle Riddle\, and David Weinstein\nMount Madonna Center\nin Northern California\nJune 16th–22nd\, 2025 \n\nA student asked Dalong\, “The physical body decays. What is the pure everlasting body?”\nDalong said: “Mountain flowers bloom like brocade\, valley streams are deepest indigo.” \n“You too must get here personally.” \nThe pure everlasting body—that’s just you\, wondering about your life.\nEmpires rise and fall\, car manufacturers too\, bank accounts\, beautiful hand fish that walk on their fins in shallow waters are leaving us\, and god knows what the market is doing\,\nbut still we are free—\nWe were born into Buddha Nature\nWe take refuge in the enduring reality. \nLife after life\, I’ve listened to the rain\,\nIn New York\, Kyoto\, Hobart.\nIf you ask me what I’m doing—no one is listening\, it’s just “drip drip drip” \nThis sesshin all of us will be saved. \n—John Tarrant \n \n\n\nOur Summer Sesshin: \nThere will be personal interviews and deep meditation\, teaching talks and some conversations\, old friends and new\, brilliant teachers\, music\, great enlightenment\, mistakes\, and delight. \nWith PZI Teachers: John Tarrant\, Allison Atwill\, Tess Beasley\, Jon Joseph\, Michelle Riddle\, and David Weinstein. \nHead of Practice: Jan Brogan\nTimekeeper: Marion Power \nThis is an extended 7-day & 6-night in-person gathering beginning Monday June 16th at 7:30 pm\, and completing Sunday June 22nd at 12:00 pm. \n\n\n\n \nMount Madonna Center in Northern California\n445 Summit Rd\,\nWatsonville\, CA 95076 \n\nRetreat registration includes room and board as well as free access to morning meditations in the PZI Summer Open Temple. \nMount Madonna Center provides vegetarian/vegan meals during sesshin. \nGetting There: For those flying to sesshin\, please review Mount Madonna’s guide on getting to the Center here. Shuttles and rideshares may be available. To coordinate\, please contact our transportation liaison Donna asap. \n*Please Note: Those registering for a campsite or either the single or double cabin options will require a short\, somewhat steep\, walk to the zendo\, dining hall\, and bathrooms. Camping gear is not provided. \nPZI Members: If you want to attend and are in need\, please don’t hesitate to request financial aid through a PZI Scholarship. Contact our registrar Lora for scholarship and any other retreat questions. \nNot a member? Join us! \n\n*Registration closes June 12th.\n*Partial refunds will be accepted until June 6th.\n*Full cancellation policy may be seen here. \n\nSingle Room with Private Bathroom — PZI Member: $2964 — Non-Member: $3064 \nSingle Room with Shared Bathroom — PZI Member: $2604 — Non-Member: $2704 \nDouble Room with Private Bathroom — PZI Member: $2109 — Non-Member: $2209 \nDouble Room with Shared Bathroom — PZI Member: $1794 — Non-Member: $1894 \nShared Room (Up to 3–4 people with Common Bathroom) — PZI Member: $1454 — Non-Member: $1554 \n*Campsite (Car or Tent) — PZI Member: $1194 — Non-Member $1294 \n*Single Cabin with Shared Bathroom — PZI Member: $2424 — Non-Member: $2524 (AT CAPACITY) \n*Double Cabin with Shared Bathroom — PZI Member: $1734 — Non-Member: $1834 (AT CAPACITY) \n\nJoin us for our yearly summer sesshin\, a time to sit together in silence in the companionship of wonder. \n \nSummer Sesshin is our major gathering for the year. We meet and sit together. There will be ceremonies and sutras and teachings and also deep and marvelous silence. \nJoin us\, join us! \n—John Tarrant
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/great-summer-sesshin-mountain-flowers-bloom-like-brocade-valley-streams-are-deepest-indigo/
LOCATION:Mount Madonna Center\, 445 Summit Road\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250616T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250616T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T121640Z
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SUMMARY:PZI Great Summer Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Great Summer Sesshin Is in Session\nMountain Flowers Bloom Like Brocade\, Valley Streams Are Deepest Indigo \nOPENING NIGHT \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nMount Madonna in California \nJune 16–22\, 2025
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-25-summer-sesshin-in-session/
LOCATION:Mount Madonna Center\, 445 Summit Road\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250608T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250608T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250415T210637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T192653Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: He Finds Himself in a Stone Crypt
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nPlants grow when I’m sleeping\, perhaps awakening does\, too. \nEveryone has their own predicament\, and—who knows? \nLet’s start with being a body in pain; the body has its own trajectory. \nWhat does it mean to turn towards the unsympathetic moment? \nThat’s what enlightenment is\, too\, a moment unsympathetic to everything previously understood. \nJoin us on Sunday. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-62/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250601T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250601T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250415T210632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250529T173441Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: When Useless Things Don’t Stick in the Mind
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSpring comes with its flowers\, autumn with the moon.\nSummer with breezes\, winter with the snow\,\nwhen useless things don’t cloud the mind\nthat is the good season. \n(Wumen’s Verse) \nThis raises the question about what should stick in the mind? \nThe Blue Cliff Record starts with\, “Knock on any door; someone will answer.” \nThe irises dying\, the dahlias not yet arrived—is this our moment of beauty? \nThe idea is that you can enter from anywhere—a child’s eyes\, a single leaf falling\, a feeling in your own heart. \nWhatever appears is a door. \nDeparting spring\,\nbirds cry out\ntears in the eyes of fish \n(Basho) \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-61/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250415T210627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T002053Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: Calming the Mind\, Protecting the Mind\, Trusting the Mind
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIf you try to calm the mind\, you just make waves. If you don’t practice\, well you are just lost in Delusionville. What to do? \nChangqing Da’an said\, “I lived with Guishan for more than thirty years. I ate Guishan’s food\, I shat Guishan’s shit\, but I didn’t study Guishan’s Zen. All I did was look after an ox. If he got off the road\, I dragged him back; if he trampled the grain in others’ fields\, I trained him with a whip. For a long time he was so pitiful\, at the mercy of everyone’s words! Now he’s changed into the white ox on the bare ground\, always right in front of my face. All day long he clearly reveals himself; even if I chase him he doesn’t go away.” \nJoin us on Sunday\, Friends\, to examine the question of meditation. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-60/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250518T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250518T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250415T210619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T203851Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: Without Comparing Yourself With Others
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWithout comparing yourself with others\, take a step. “But what will they think of me?” You might ask. \n“Ah\, who cares?” We live for a short time and every moment is sacred\, every moment free. And then we have the idea of kawai—Everyone is cute like Hello Kitty\, and having a good time being themselves. \nWalking in the moonlight\, walking after the moon has set\, a solemn step and another. \nHere’s the koan about what happens when you stop comparing: \nShoushan said to his assembly\, “If you get it the first time you hear it\, you’ll teach buddhas and ancestors. If you get it the second time you hear it\, you’ll teach gods and humans. If you don’t get it until the third time\, you won’t even be able to save Yourself.” \nA student asked\, “When did you get it?”\nShoushan said\, “The moon sets at midnight\, I walk alone through the town.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 76 \n—John Tarrant Roshi \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-59/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250511T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250511T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250415T210616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T230737Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: Guanyin: She Hears the Sounds of the World
DESCRIPTION:Mother’s day\, it’s Guanyin’s day.\nWhat is the role of compassion in the world?\nHer robe is the mist and the stars\, and there is no one she does not welcome.\nShe appears in koans and in dreams\, even after she has gone.\nShe is needed in a difficult time.\nThink of something you would like to say to her. \nJoin us this Sunday. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-58/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250504T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250504T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: The Pilgrim’s Way
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne foot and then the other foot\, and then again\, and suddenly we’re on a journey. Our walking transforms us; we find that it’s not so hard to be at peace inwardly. \nThis is in spite of all that arrives: threatening\, painful\, and also as bright as the peonies in spring. Every step we take is into the unknown\, however\, others have walked the way before us\, and others will come after us—how many generations\, no one knows. The pilgrimage of this life is also joyous. Yes\, joy is a marvelous\, sudden thing and rises out of the depths\, rises in us\, and then we care for the world and each other. \nThat’s what I’ve noticed. \nLet’s have a meeting about the pilgrim’s way this Sunday. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-54/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250427T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250427T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250227T155737Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: How To Love The World We Have
DESCRIPTION:Acts of kindness\, acts of disaster\, kindness\, disaster\, kindness… \nIn human news\, Billy\, a factory trained mechanic\, drives out to rescue my daughter when my truck\, which she has borrowed\, breaks. I’m away and when I call him\, he refuses payment\, “Put down that phone\,” he says\, “End this call now!” \nIn Corvid news\, a raven flies over carrying a stick\, followed by another raven with a stick\, moving into the eucalyptus grove. The great horned owls\, the red shouldered hawks make no comment. \nIn 14th century news\, which I have been reading\, the Black Death kills between 30% and 50% of the population. On the bright side\, the feudal system begins to fracture. \nIn war news\, the war is still going on. \nIn radiology news\, the radiologist\, Japanese but born here after the war\, is very thoughtful & kind but says she doesn’t really get Zen. \nLoving the world we have\, that’s it! \nJoin us \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-57/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250420T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250420T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250227T155713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250414T151114Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:ON BREAK for retreat. Join us again on April 27th!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-56/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250406T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250406T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154256
CREATED:20250227T155620Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with Guest Host Tess Beasley & Friends: Dissolving the Plot\, Discovering the Unforeseen
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nI remember a dream once in which the danger seemed certain\, but then a sliding door opened as if I were in a grocery store and a gaggle of turkeys wandered through. \nWhatever plot I’d been holding to suddenly gave way and the world stood open. \nBeing alive comes with plenty of good reasons to be afraid\, but having a practice means making way for the turkeys and other unexpected gifts of the mind to appear. \nAs we become more intimate with the world\, it shares its secrets with us. As we become less certain\, new pathways appear. \nJoin us Sunday for meditation\, music\, and stories of encountering the unforeseen. \n—Tess Beasley \n\n\n\n \nMeditation 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. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends-54/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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