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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Dreams & the Fire at the End of the Universe
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nLately in California the dream is fire\, the image of transformation. \nAllison grew up in the Palisades. \nDid your childhood house on Swathmore burn?\nYes it did\, the whole of Swathmore is gone.\nHow about ancient Aunt Betty’s house in the Red Zone near the cliffs?\nIt did not fall down\, but it burned yesterday.\nAnd the Corpus Christi Church?\nAh yes\, that too. \nThe park burned\, the library burned. \nA student asked Dasui\, “In the Kalpa fire when the universe is completely destroyed\, I’m still wondering\, is there something that won’t be destroyed?”\nDasui said\, “It will be destroyed.”\n“It will follow along with everything else?”\nDasui said\, “It will follow along with everything else.” \nMany intense things happen in the dream of our lives. \nJoin us for the practice of dream and fire. \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-44/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN: John Tarrant on His New Book – The Story of the Buddha
DESCRIPTION:Pacific Zen Institute & Point Reyes Books Present:\nTess Beasley in Conversation\nwith Zen Teacher\, Author\, & Poet John Tarrant\nOn His New Book: The Story of the Buddha\nSunday January 5th\, 2025\n10:30–12:00 pm Pacific Time\n\n\nJoin us online for a presentation and conversation on John Tarrant’s newest book\, The Story of the Buddha. The newly released hardcover book with beautiful\, high-quality imagery is now available in the PZI Online Store. \nPrefer to listen? The audiobook is also available with narration by John himself. \nDonations of $250 or greater to the PZI year end fund will receive a signed copy! \n\nJohn Tarrant is a Zen teacher\, author\, and poet and is PZI’s founder and director. He is interested in Zen as a Way that transforms the mind and in the dance between innovation and tradition in both teaching and practice. \nRead John’s full bio here. \n\nZen as a set of rules and procedures is not so interesting to me. I learned Zen when we were still trying to find what worked in the West. And people now seem to find freedom more naturally than I had assumed during my own initial studies. \nMy experiments have led me to trust people more than I once did\, and to teach people to trust their own moves. To me this means that koans are not a gadget that you put all your effort into using. They’re an environment—you wander around and they teach you. You have to listen and look.
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/zen-luminaries-the-story-of-the-buddha-jon-joseph-in-conversation-with-zen-teacher-poet-author-john-tarrant/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: The Mind of Winter
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nwhen the winter chrysanthemums go\,\nthere’s nothing to write about\nbut radishes \n—Basho \nI find myself hoping for snow\, which is silly. I get snow about once a decade in Sonoma County. \nInside snow\, though\, there is a slow plunge of silence\, and the mystery of who I am.\nBut\, also\, I like the noisy way we come together in winter\, singing and feeling cheery merely because others are in the world with us. Santa Claus is fun\, too. Inside Santa is also the mystery of who I am. \nI do have oranges on a tree—”golden lamps in a green night\,” an old poet called them. \nSo this Sunday let’s have snow and friendship\, or if not snow\, perhaps rain will do\, or oranges—anyway\, let’s have friendship and enlightenment. \nJoin us. \n—John Tarrant \n\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-40/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Endarkening – Deeper Into the World
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nLost and in the Dark \nYou come and go by daylight\, you make people out by daylight.\nBut suddenly it’s midnight and there’s no sun\, no moon\, no light.\nIf it’s a place you’ve been to\, then of course it might be possible\,\nbut if it’s a place you’ve never been\, how will you get ahold of something? \n—Yunmen \nZen takes us deeper. We feel\, taste\, touch\, hear\, see\, and remember the world in a complete meeting. We become what we see. \nWe do this when our thoughts stop telling us what to do\, think\, and feel. \nOne way of considering this is that the thoughts fall out of our mind\, and we are in darkness. That is where we can become true to ourselves. This is where the enchantment of the world is all around 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-41/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:John Tarrant is away at the PZI Leadership Retreat and will return on December 15th. We hope to see you then! \n\nWaking up is what we do together in the online Temple. We love it when you join us. \n—John Tarrant & All of Us at PZI \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/on-break-sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-12/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241201T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241201T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: At the Cliff Edge of Life and Death
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\nAt the Cliff Edge of Life and Death \nAn atmospheric river and a bomb cyclone\,\nin the dry lands the sag ponds and vernal pools are overflowing.\nThe frogs are singing\, “This\, this\, is what we always wanted!”\nThe man with the diagnosis—feels happy nonetheless.\nThe season turns very\, very cold.\nA man walks a thousand miles for a dharma conversation.\n“How do you find the joy of life?”\nWhen you are close to the edge\, there it is. \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-42/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241124T103000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Snowed In – Companions to Be Thankful For
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIn a temple\, people sit together and forget themselves. We forget the thoughts in our heads\, our family sorrows\, our disapproval of\, well\, of so many things. It’s as if we are all snowed in. \nThen we might notice a field effect—we are connected to each other\, often in ways that we don’t necessarily understand. Our friendships are deep and mysterious and change us; we all get enlightened together. \nLong ago\, two friends were snowed in on Tortoise Mountain. \nWe’ll explore this matter of how we are linked together and how important friendship can be in difficult times. Something to be grateful for. \nJoin us 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-38/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Beauty Slips Around the Guards
DESCRIPTION:Even moonlight itself transforms the heart. It bathes the trees\, it touches the slowly curling wave\, it opens a barely discernible path in the garden and in the streets. \nThe problems that seemed so well defined in daylight are revealed to be mysterious. You can see that everything has a secret inner life and you do\, too. \nIn moonlight the stones and walls are considering us as well. \nZazen is a form of moonlight. \nJoin us for Sunday Temple. \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-37/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241110T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241110T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: All Things Fall Under the Law of Change
DESCRIPTION:The Diamond Sutra says\, \nAll things fall under the law of change;\nall of existence\, all the conditioned paths\nare like a dream\, a waterfall\, an illusion\, a bubble\, a shadow;\nlike dew and like a flash of lightning:\nthis is how you should contemplate it. \nWhen Subhuti heard the Buddha’s words\, he understood their meaning and was moved to tears. He said\, \n“If you hear this sutra\, and understand it\, receiving and upholding it is no longer difficult. If there shall come into the world\, after five hundred years\, beings who hear this sermon with sincere understanding\, receiving and upholding it\, then they would be made most extraordinary. What is the reason? These people would be without the views of a self. Why is that? The view of self then is this non-sign. The views of a person then are this non-sign. What is the reason? Departing\, from all signs\, they then are called Buddhas.” \nThe world is not what we name it or think it\, and there is no such thing as a self or an other. \nThis is a wisdom that does not aim at completion and explanation. \n—John Tarrant \nOur Pacific Zen Mission: \nWhat we do is to provide a vessel for awakening. We keep the old wisdom alive. People go out into the world and do good work and we provide a place where they can grow wise and reflect and be consoled and free even when things are very difficult. This is the famous bodhisattva path. Thank you for showing up and helping 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-36/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241103T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: So Far\, So Good
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSo Far\, So Good\nPublic life is full of tyrannosaurs\, pterodactyls and oligarchs. Elections can turn out well and also badly. We’re not here for long and we’re surrounded by cultural madness. As a pilgrim of the way our job is to tiptoe through the monsters. Uncertainty greets us every morning. So let’s have it\, really have this life full of stars\, sparrows singing\, mad leaders\, and kindness to each other. That last bit is really important; it means being unselfish. \nThe sunlight whispers\, “Don’t despair.” We have to find our own journey and our own true lives. Even rhinoceroses have to do it\, and wombats too\, walking the great way. \nKeep walking the dharma path\, friends. \nJoin us this Sunday. \n—John Tarrant \n\n“Curriculum Vitae” by Lisel Mueller \n1) I was born in a Free City\, near the North Sea. \n2) In the year of my birth\, money was shredded into\nconfetti. A loaf of bread cost a million marks. Of\ncourse I do not remember this. \n3) Parents and grandparents hovered around me. The\nworld I lived in had a soft voice and no claws. \n4) A cornucopia filled with treats took me into a building\nwith bells. A wide-bosomed teacher took me in. \n5) At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth. \n6) On Sundays the city child waded through pinecones\nand primrose marshes\, a short train ride away. \n7) My country was struck by history more deadly than\nearthquakes or hurricanes. \n8) My father was busy eluding the monsters. My mother\ntold me the walls had ears. I learned the burden of secrets. \n9) I moved into the too bright days\, the too dark nights\nof adolescence. \n10) Two parents\, two daughters\, we followed the sun\nand the moon across the ocean. My grandparents stayed\nbehind in darkness. \n11) In the new language everyone spoke too fast. Eventually\nI caught up with them. \n12) When I met you\, the new language became the language\nof love. \n13) The death of the mother hurt the daughter into poetry.\nThe daughter became a mother of daughters. \n14) Ordinary life: the plenty and thick of it. Knots tying\nthreads to everywhere. The past pushed away\, the future left\nunimagined for the sake of the glorious\, difficult\, passionate\npresent. \n15) Years and years of this. \n16) The children no longer children. An old man’s pain\, an\nold man’s loneliness. \n17) And then my father too disappeared. \n18) I tried to go home again. I stood at the door to my\nchildhood\, but it was closed to the public. \n19) One day\, on a crowded elevator\, everyone’s face was younger\nthan mine. \n20) So far\, so good. The brilliant days and nights are\nbreathless in their hurry. We follow\, you and I. \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-35/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:John Tarrant is in Fall Sesshin this week. \nCome join us next on November 3rd. \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/on-break-sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-11/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
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SUMMARY:PZI Fall Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Fall Sesshin Is in Session: The Manifestations of the 1000-Armed Goddess of Mercy \nCLOSING DAY \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nSanta Sabina Center in California \nOctober 22–27\, 2024
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-fall-sesshin-in-session-7/
LOCATION:Santa Sabina Center\, 25 Magnolia Avenue\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241026T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
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SUMMARY:PZI Fall Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Fall Sesshin Is in Session: The Manifestations of the 1000-Armed Goddess of Mercy \nDAY FIVE \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nSanta Sabina Center in California \nOctober 22–27\, 2024
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-fall-sesshin-in-session-8/
LOCATION:Santa Sabina Center\, 25 Magnolia Avenue\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
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SUMMARY:PZI Fall Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Fall Sesshin Is in Session: The Manifestations of the 1000-Armed Goddess of Mercy \nDAY FOUR \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nSanta Sabina Center in California \nOctober 22–27\, 2024
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-fall-sesshin-in-session-9/
LOCATION:Santa Sabina Center\, 25 Magnolia Avenue\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20241009T181825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T144638Z
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SUMMARY:PZI Fall Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Fall Sesshin Is in Session: The Manifestations of the 1000-Armed Goddess of Mercy \nDAY THREE \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nSanta Sabina Center in California \nOctober 22–27\, 2024
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-fall-sesshin-in-session-10/
LOCATION:Santa Sabina Center\, 25 Magnolia Avenue\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20241009T181837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T185344Z
UID:10001876-1729663200-1729717200@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:PZI Fall Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Fall Sesshin Is in Session: The Manifestations of the 1000-Armed Goddess of Mercy \nDAY TWO \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nSanta Sabina Center in California \nOctober 22–27\, 2024
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-fall-sesshin-in-session-11/
LOCATION:Santa Sabina Center\, 25 Magnolia Avenue\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20241009T181854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T202125Z
UID:10001865-1729625400-1729630800@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:PZI Fall Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Fall Sesshin Is in Session: The Manifestations of the 1000-Armed Goddess of Mercy \nDAY ONE: OPENING NIGHT \nIn Person with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nSanta Sabina Center in California \nOctober 22–27\, 2024
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-fall-sesshin-in-session-12/
LOCATION:Santa Sabina Center\, 25 Magnolia Avenue\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241020T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241020T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20241015T165952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241018T155801Z
UID:10001832-1729420200-1729425600@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Refuge\, Befriending the Animals
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nI keep coming back to the Ceremony of Refuge because to take refuge means to accept\, to embrace\, our participation in the world and the world’s way of entering us. \nTo let the world come to us is to welcome it. Refuge is a meeting between our own desires and hopes and the creatures of the world who notice us\, who also have hopes for their encounter with us. Zen is in the space between\, the meeting with each other. \nJoin us this Sunday. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.\n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nSunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-34-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241013T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241013T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20241009T204956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T222617Z
UID:10001831-1728815400-1728820800@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: The Mysterious Stone Crypt
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nThe Mysterious Stone Crypt \nYou are locked in a stone crypt. There are no windows and the door is barred from the outside. How will you get out?\n—PZI Miscellaneous Koans\, Case 20 \nGreat koans give an image for our condition\, for climate change\, for being at the mercy of our leaders and of our own view. That’s the question we’re carrying: How will we get out? We’re in the same situation as Mr. Toad in Wind in the Willows\, locked up in the stoutest dungeon in Merry England.  \nIt’s a beautiful description of what we are in\, when we’re in. Whenever we’re suffering\, in essence we’re in that stone crypt. And how do we get out? Zen practice is for breaking those locks. \nJoin us on Sunday for an exploration of breaking out of prison. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-34-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240929T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240929T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20240925T230329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250404T000558Z
UID:10001816-1727605800-1727611200@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Just to Know That There Is a Path
DESCRIPTION:Autumn is really setting in and the delusion and cruelty of public life are setting in\, too. \nSo just to know that there is a path is our job—to hold the way\, to encourage those on the way. Triumph and despair come and go but the Way remains. Without words\, the autumn trees make a golden path\, while the leaves are falling around us. \nIn the midst of upheaval  and difficulties of every kind\, Fayen said \nHe\, he\, he\, I\, I\, I\nSouth north east west everything is all right\nAll right or not all right\nOnly for me\, there is nothing not all right \nWalking the ancient path—that’s what we do\, and hold for each other\, and there is only now … \n—John Tarrant \n\n\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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.\n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nSunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-33-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240922T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240922T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20240917T195453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250404T000153Z
UID:10001815-1727001000-1727006400@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Autumn Is the Philosophical Season
DESCRIPTION:Season of songs and sorrow and wide sky\, begonia and memory. \nThe grapes are very ripe\, the persimmons are weighing the boughs down to the ground\, the fox trots by with a vole in his mouth—so that’s why the garden is doing well—and I have a sense of wonder. The first of the golden crown sparrows\, thinned down by the flight from Alaska\, arrived at the bird bath\, taking a slow drink. This moment is what life is for\, and again this moment. Time is spacious when we don’t argue with it. \nClimb Mt Fuji\,\nSnail\, but slowly\,\nSlowly. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.\n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nSunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-33-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240915T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240915T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20240910T212949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T235352Z
UID:10001814-1726396200-1726401600@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: The Zen Master and the Ruler of the Land
DESCRIPTION:Our lives are the universe talking to itself—the wind bending the grass\, the goldfinches pouring through the garden like honey\, the feeling that life all makes sense and the feeling that life doesn’t make sense—all of this is ours. In late spring\, birds are singing on their nests at night. Our thoughts and feelings are simple too. There is something beautiful about being alive\, just the simplest part of being alive is everything. \nMeditation is not very complicated. It just means noticing that everything is alright\, even when things are difficult\, there is something alright in us. Our lives have a grace and a kindness in them before we started looking for grace or kindness. We are not living the wrong life. \nHere’s a little story: Zhaozhou and the Ruler of the Land. \nThe Governor asked\, “Master\, do you practice?”\nZhaozhou said\, “It would be a disaster if I did.”\nMa said\, “If you yourself do not practice\, to whom can you teach the practice?”\nZhaozhou said\, “You.”\nMa said\, “How can you call someone like me a practitioner?”\nZhao said\, “If you did not practice\, how could you have overcome hunger and cold\, and attained the status of a Governor?”\nWith tears in his eyes the Governor bowed in gratitude. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.\n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nSunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-33-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240908T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240908T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20240904T195724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T235229Z
UID:10001813-1725791400-1725796800@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: How Is My Hand Like the Buddha’s Hand?
DESCRIPTION:This dialogue is a call and response: \n“How is my hand like the Buddha’s hand?”\n“Playing guitar in the moonlight.” \nThe question goes in many directions; it asks\, “What shall we do with being human?” \nHands make art and tenderness. Hands do things\, they pick up a child\, haul in a fish\, swing a bucket\, write\, play guitar.\nHands have rings on them. Hands turn us into artists\, people who give shape to matter.\nAnd the music is happening in the moonlight\, there are memories\, and surprises; a dreamlike and eternal quality keeps us company.\nAnd isn’t everything a dream? \nJoin us this Sunday. \n\n\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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.\n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nSunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-33-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240901T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240901T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20240828T225339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T193030Z
UID:10001812-1725186600-1725192000@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Surprise!
DESCRIPTION:At first\, we are reaching for the beautiful and timeless world.\nWe practice and suddenly we find that it just surrounds us and we are not reaching any more. \nThe way of the Emperor Yao came from the Buddha—\nhe bent the Yellow River—\nwhen he passed through the market from end to end\,\nhe found the sacred dynasty flourishing there. \nJoin us Sunday. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.\n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nSunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-33-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240825T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240825T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20240821T222703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T192920Z
UID:10001800-1724581800-1724587200@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Laying About in the Usual Chaos
DESCRIPTION:Is it laying about or lying about? In summer\, I aspire to less and less. \nCrickets go on all night. \nThe big eye of the harvest tractor goes all night\, up and down. \nAt dawn\, I sit bolt upright saying aloud\, “Who is that?” but it’s just the round moon saying hello. \nDoing nothing is the original Zen gig. \nIt allows us to be original. It allows the world to restore us and offer ideas. \nThoughts come by themselves but indeed we might not need them\, since others will be along soon. \n  \nJoin us for zazen and to consider how best to accord with the flow of the Dao. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.\n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nSunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-33-2-2-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240818T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240818T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20240815T234322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T191040Z
UID:10001799-1723977000-1723982400@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: The World Befriends Our Awkward Ways
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes I weep without warning—I don’t need to know why but it brings me home. Sometimes I trip because I’m thinking about things\, my head in the clouds. Then the world is suddenly waiting to greet me\, once again after all this time\, full of kindness. The corner of the wall where the stucco is broken\, the glass and concrete tower that leads me to remember a childhood scene—the kindness of the world is very near. \nJoin us for zazen and to consider the true nature of the world and how we inhabit it. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.\n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nSunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-33-2-2-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240811T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240811T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20240704T000055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T235319Z
UID:10001801-1723372200-1723377600@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Jon Joseph: The Journey Itself Is Home
DESCRIPTION:The months and days are like travelers of a hundred generations; the passing years are also like travelers. For those who spend their lives on a boat drifting offshore or grow old leading a horse by the mouth\, every day is a journey\, and the journey itself is home. \nThus opens Matsuo Basho’s greatest travel journal\, a collection of prose and short verse detailing his 1\,500-mile journey through the wild north of 18th century Japan. Considered dangerous travel at the time\, it became for him his richest of experiences. \nOn that route Basho met the whole of life: He heard peasants singing rice-planting songs in spring\, was mired in muddy tracks in May\, sobbed at the thick summer grasses growing over an ancient battlefield\, and was plagued by the fleas and lice sleeping with him in a horse’s stall. At the end he stood on the dark seashore as ocean waves crashed under a full autumn moon. \nBasho’s travels to the interior are not different from our own journey inward. We begin this path thinking it narrow and perhaps even perilous. But with time\, with practice together\, our hearts and minds begin to open and widen and we feel more generous. We realize that the spring is green and wet\, the summer smokey and hot—all as they should be. August tomatoes arrive on time\, welcoming us to this grand adventure. It is a good path\, this one. One worthy of our lives. \nJoin us. \n–Jon Joseph \nSunday Zen with Guest Host Jon Joseph\, August 11th\, 2024 \n\n\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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.\n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nSunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-33-2-2-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240804T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240804T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20240729T212409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T232831Z
UID:10001782-1722767400-1722772800@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Summertime
DESCRIPTION:The Dharma is a long and ancient conversation \nEmperor Wenzong wrote\, \nPeople suffer from the burning heat\, but I always love the summer days. \nThe poet Liu Gongquan replied\, \nA fragrant breeze blows from the south\,\ngiving rise in the palace to a refreshing coolness. \nAt these words Dahui was enlightened. \nAnd this became a koan. \nThis summer I was looking forward to that cool breeze and to the thoughts falling out of my mind. Other things happened instead\, sometimes mad and sometimes hard to welcome. \nThey included great fires\, a friend with a brain tumor\, the Olympics\, an intense and vivid covid in which I had conversations with Avalokitesvara. Also\, not going to Provence to friends and lavender fields was part of the yearning of it. \nIn the end it was beautiful. \nJoin us on Sunday when we are all at the center of the universe \n\n\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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.\n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nSunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-33-2-2-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240728T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240728T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20240709T220646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T220646Z
UID:10001771-1722162600-1722168000@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:NO SUNDAY ZEN TODAY \nJohn Tarrant is away in July. \nCome join us for our next Sunday Zen on August 4th! \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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-10-2/2024-07-28/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240721T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240721T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T000639
CREATED:20240709T220646Z
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:NO SUNDAY ZEN TODAY \nJohn Tarrant is away in July. \nCome join us for our next Sunday Zen on August 4th! \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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-10-2/2024-07-21/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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