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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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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241020T120000
DTSTAMP:20260427T070816
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241013T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241013T120000
DTSTAMP:20260427T070816
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240929T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240929T120000
DTSTAMP:20260427T070816
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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:20260427T070816
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240915T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240915T120000
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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
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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:20260427T070816
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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:20260427T070816
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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:20260427T070816
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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:20260427T070816
CREATED:20240704T000055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T235319Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240804T120000
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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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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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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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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-10-2/2024-07-14/
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 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/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240630T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240630T120000
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CREATED:20240618T221424Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: For Whom Do You Bathe and Make Yourself Beautiful?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nJuly is the month when we take a monthlong recess\, so this is your last Sunday til August. \n\nWe are always deepening and this change never stops. Here is an old koan about the journey and where consciousness is going. It points out that when we look at life\, the view is beautiful and also we are on a journey—we are encouraged to persist. \nThe voice of the cuckoo is calling you home.\nCountless flowers have fallen\, and that voice continues—\nin the deep places\, where mountains are piled on mountains\, the call continues. \nJoin us this Sunday for a look at some of those flowers that keep falling on our path. \n\n\n \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-32-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240623T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: The Vessel of the Meditation Retreat
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThis Week: The Vessel of the Meditation Retreat \nWe just got out of a weeklong retreat\, so I’m thinking about what it’s like to be in a vessel together. I think of the old alchemical ideas of transformation. There is lumpy darkness and shadow\, and silver moonlight and fire\, and water and pressure and salt\, and flames having all the peacock colors. \nSomething opens in the mind and heart and we feel the blessed day\, we enter our lives without reservation or disapproval. \nJoin us! \n\n\n \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-32-4/
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 in Summer Sesshin this week. \nCome join us next on June 23rd. \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-9/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240609T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240609T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Refuge from the Storm
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nRefuge is something that sustains us. \nRefuge is an ancient Zen ceremony in which we declare\, admit\, shout from the rooftops\, or grant ruefully\, that we are involved in a mystery that we can depend on; when we take refuge\, we are finding a path in the dark. \nAn ancient poet says\, “We walk on the red sky\,” and that means we step and nothing supports us but it’s not necessary to be supported. Conditions are not important. We can be full of joy and help each other anyway. \nLife\, dishes\, children\, fear and joy\, the whole thing\, we say\, “Yes!” \nJoin us this Sunday. \n\n\n \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-32-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Tess Beasley: Whose Gift Is This Long\, Beautiful Evening?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe moon shines on the river\,\nWind stirs in the pines—\nWhose gift is this long\, beautiful evening? \n–Yongjia Xuanjue \nAs the days grow long in the northern hemisphere\, golden hour stretches its long fingers out each night and seems to brush with eternity. Birds call and frogs sing\, and little by little I and everything disappear into twilight. \nThe world is always opening itself this way\, offering its riches of being as part of our own\, and yet the inevitable human thing is the nagging feeling something is wrong\, something is missing\, something has been lost. Great Huangbo said awakening is the silent bond through which all things are revealed as entirely oneself or one’s own family. \nJoin us Sunday for meditation\, music\, and companions of all kinds. \n\n\n—Tess Beasley \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-32-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240526T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240526T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: The Mysterious Wisdom of Laozi
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nLaozi is the source of the strangeness and lightness you meet everywhere in Zen. And of mysterious lines such as\, \n     The Dao that can be named is not the eternal Dao. \nor\, \n     The valley spirit never dies.\n     It’s called the dark mysterious feminine.\n     The gateway of the dark mysterious feminine\n     is called the source of heaven and earth.\n     Elusive as gossamer\, always here unseen\,\n     use it; it will never fail you. \nLaozi taught us how to rest in uncertainty. When you meditate you enter the Dao. Playing music might do it too. When Confucius met him he claimed that Laozi was a dragon. \nDragons don’t have to take things seriously— \nJoin us for an exploration of the old\, old wisdom that the creative life rests on. \n \nJohn 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 \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-31-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240519T103000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: The Fire That Burned the Great Temple
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nThe covers were burned but the sutras were unharmed— \nThe city of Kamakura was the capital of Japan for 150 years in the medieval period (1180-1333). Koan meditation was brought over from China and emperors and great samurai studied Zen. At this time\, pretty much any disaster that could happen did happen—civil war\, earthquake\, fire\, and tsunami (though the great bronze Buddha survived the waters). \nThe Temple of Engakuji was destroyed by fire in 1374. The entire library was consumed and the rare books which the founder\, Bukko\, had brought from China were reduced to ashes. Priests of the Hachiman shrine came to Enkakuji\, concerned about the tragic loss of these ancient texts. \nFumon\, the master\, said\, “None of the texts has been burnt.”\n“Then where are they?” asked a priest doubtfully.\nThe teacher drew a circle and said\, “They are in here.” \nWhen everything is burned there is something that is not burned. \nCome on Sunday and hear the rest of the story. \n\n\n \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-31-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240512T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240512T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN: Mother’s Day – The Queen of Heaven Who Bears Us in Her Reverie with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nThe Day of the Mother\, the Day of the Queen of heaven crowned with stars: We bear her with us in our reverie because she bears us in her reverie. \nMeditation can allow us first to tolerate and then to enjoy our own feelings and to take delight in others. It makes room for intimacy. Meditation itself is a kind of good mother. \nThe original intimacy is always with us underneath our complaints and longings. \nVasilisa the Beautiful is the heroine in a Russian fairy tale. Before Vasilisa’s mother died she gave her daughter a little wooden doll. And whenever Vasilisa was in trouble and about to be eaten by the witch\, she fed the doll a little\, gave it a little beer to drink\, and the doll gave her wise counsel. Her mother’s love went with her everywhere and saved her. The blessing made her life beautiful. \nThe image of Guanyin and the original blessing of the mother is always with us. It makes our lives beautiful. \nJoin us on Sunday. \n\n\n \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-31-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240505T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240505T120000
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CREATED:20240430T054955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240503T062912Z
UID:10001702-1714905000-1714910400@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN: Road Trip – Each Day Is a Journey and the Journey Itself Is Home with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThis life is a journey\, we travel in sleep and dream\, we travel to work\, to find rest\, to find love; when we die we are thought to go into the bardos in quest of a new life. \nTo be at peace in each movement\, that is free. After all it is not so important to be the person I thought I was; that too is a journey—forgetting myself. It takes a lot of work to maintain our idea of ourselves and erect barricades against different ideas. It’s easier to have not much of an idea of who we are. In that case we don’t have to believe in the trouble we see in our lives. The path just opens naturally. \nHere is Basho: \nThe Narrow Road to the Deep North \nThe moon and sun are travelers in eternity. Even the years wander on. A lifetime adrift in a boat\, or in old age leading a tired horse into the years\, every day is a journey and the journey itself is home.  \nFrom the earliest times there have been those who perished on the road. Still I have always been drawn by wind-blown clouds and dream of a lifetime of wandering. Coming home from a year’s walking tour of the coast last autumn\, I swept the cobwebs from my hut on the banks of the Sumida just in time for New Year\, but by the time spring mists began to rise from the fields\, I longed to cross the Shirakawa Barrier into the Northern Interior. \nDrawn by the wanderer-spirit Dosojin\, I couldn’t concentrate on things. Mending my cotton pants\, sewing a new strap on my bamboo hat\, I daydreamed. Rubbing moxa into my legs to strengthen them\, I dreamed a bright moon rising over Matsushima.  \nSo I placed my house in another’s hands and moved to my patron Mr. Sampu’s summer house in preparation for my journey. And I left a verse by my door: \nEven this grass hut\nmay be transformed\ninto a doll’s house \n(Matsuo Basho) \nJoin us on Sunday. \n\n\n \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-31-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240428T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN: Unexpected Help Along the Way with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIn NorCal the little sparrows have just flown off for their Alaskan nesting grounds with their friends. We try to fatten them up before they hurry away. There are just a few left singing their little melodies. The songs are like turning words; suddenly the atmosphere is changed. \nTurning words are the surprises of Zen\, even inside philosophy. \nA student says\, “Speech is a matter of form and emptiness\, silence also.\nHow do I go beyond emptiness and form?” \nFengxue said\, “I’m always thinking of the Lake District in spring;\npartridges are singing among the scented flowers.” \nJoin us this Sunday for the turning words of spring. \n\n\n \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-29-5/
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 on retreat this week. \nCome join us next on the 28th! \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/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-29-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240414T103000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN: Following the Scented Grasses\, Chasing Falling Blossoms with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nOne day Changsha went wandering in the mountains. That’s today and Changsha is you. When he returned\, the head of practice met him at the gate and asked\, “Where have you been?” \n“Wandering in the mountains.” \n“Where did you go?” \n“I went out following the scented grasses and returned chasing the falling blossoms. \nOn the other hand\, spring can sink into the vastness\, tangled up\, as invisible as your buddha nature. \nA woman called Yu worked in town making doughnuts. She said\, \n“There’s a woman of no rank with six arms and three heads\, working furiously\, smashing Flower Mountain in two with one blow. Her strength is like the ever-flowing water\, which doesn’t know about the coming of spring.” \nSpring tumbles over itself as it appears\, flowers\, young foxes\, cows and birds with the necessary twigs for a happy home. Joy! Joy! Wandering in the mountains never ends. \nJoin us for a bit of a wander this Sunday! \n\n\n \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-29-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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