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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Monday Zen with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on March 3rd. We hope you join us then!\n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-48/
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Language of the Heart – A Chat about Classic Chinese Poetry
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n“Poetry is China’s greatest art\,” writes translator Red Pine (Bill Porter)\, especially during the great dynasties of the Tang (618-906) and Song (960-1278). “The Chinese have ever since called this their Golden Age of Poetry.” It was also the golden age of Chan/Zen Buddhism in China. \n“The Chinese word for poetry shih (詩) is nominally a combination of word (言) and temple (寺)\, but it’s origin is actually chih\, made of the two characters for word (言) and to aspire\, or heart-felt (志)\,” writes Red Pine. He translates the character for poem as “language from the heart.” \nIn these two dynasties\, there were monk poets\, hermit poets\, government official poets\, and emperor poets\, and they wrote everywhere: on paper\, rocks\, cave and temple walls. They got inspiration from birds and animals\, human relationships\, water courses\, history\, weather\, and wine. And always the narrative was one of human beings standing in a timeless time and spaceless space in the midst of the ever-changing and forever-moving Way. \nThese three poets are among the greatest in the Tang: \nDu Fu (712-770)\, trained as a Confucian\, is sometimes called the “poet-historian.” He was for many years a government official\, serving on the front lines in war or in the capital\, falling in and out of favor\, depending on the imperial court and events of the times. He died in near poverty. \n“Moonrise” \nThin slice of ascending light\, arc tipped\nAside all its bellied dark—the new moon\nappears and\, scarcely risen beyond ancient\nfrontier passes\, edges behind clouds. Silver\,\nchangeless—the Star River spreads across\nempty mountains scoured with cold. White\ndew dusts the courtyard\, chrysanthemum\nblossoms clotted there with swollen dark. \nLi Bai (701-762) was the Daoist of the three\, and his poems often celebrated friendship\, the wonders of nature\, and the joys of drinking wine. He married several times into different wealthy families\, but often gave his belongings away to friends\, and failed at several attempts to serve in court. His life\, like his friend Tu Fu’s\, was greatly impacted by the disastrous An Lu Shan Rebellion of 755. It is said Li Bai drowned\, falling out of a boat on his way to exile while one night trying to capture the moon in a drunken embrace. \n“Waiting for Wine that Doesn’t Come” \nJade winejars tied in blue silk….\nWhat’s taking the wineseller so long?\nMountain flowers smiling\, taunting me\,\nit’s the perfect time to sip some wine\,\nladle it out beneath my east window\nat dusk\, wandering orioles back again\,\nSpring breezes and their drunken guest:\ntoday\, we are meant for each other. \nPo Chu-I (772-846)\, who also served as politician and artist\, was the Chan-Zen Buddhist of the three greats. His poems advising stopping a needless military campaign and satire of greedy officials got him exiled from court several times. His poetry is known for its accessibility\, and it is said if one of his servants could not understand a poem\, he would rewrite it. \n“Sick and Old\, Same as Ever: A Poem to Figure it All Out” \nSplendor and ruin\, sorrow and joy\, long life or early death:\nwhen the human realm’s a figment of prank and whimsy\,\nis it really so strange if I’m a bug’s arm or a rat’s liver?\nAnd chicken skin or crane plumage—what would It hurt?\nIn yesterday’s winds\, I was happy to begin my long journey\,\nbut today in all this sunlit warmth\, I feel better.\nAnd now that I’m packed and ready for that distant voyage\,\nwhat does it matter if I linger on a little while here. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-47/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: What Is the Source of Our Muse?
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nWords do not express the fact.\nSpeech is not useful;\nIf attached to words\, one should be mourned.\nIf mired in phrases\, one becomes confused. \n—Gateless Gate\, Case 37\, Wumen’s Verse \n“Tell me\, Muse\, the story of a man\, it’s many twists and turns\, how many times he was led astray\, having been at the destruction of Troy’s holy city…“ So begins The Odyssey. What is the mysterious source of the muse Homer calls upon? How does the muse sing\, dance\, sail\, and fight? \nI recently listened to a 2004 interview with the musician Neil Young\, who spoke of the first time he heard his muse. \nAt 17\, Young had formed a band and was writing and singing his own music\, but he didn’t feel it was very creative and improvisational. One night\, while playing in a small club\, he recalled: \n“I did something on my guitar where we started playing this song\, and then we got into the instrumental\, and I just basically went nuts. And I think it was the first time that ever happened. And I just kept playing. And I just kept going and going and grinding and just pounding away at this rhythmic thing and exploring little nuances of it… \nAnd at that point\, you know\, I realized\, well\, there’s a place I can go. And I didn’t — I just kind of fell into it by accident. And I think I’ve spent the rest of my life trying to get there.” \nMapping the place where the muse resides has long been important work in the Chan-Zen tradition. And stumbling off course\, getting lost\, has always been part of the grand exploration. A young monk named Dragon Tooth (Longya) was once traveling around China seeking out many of the famous teachers of the time. He came to Virtue Mountain (Deshan) and asked: \n“How is it when a student holding a sharp sword tries to take the teacher’s head?” The teacher Virtue stretched out his neck and uttered a grunt. Tooth exclaimed\, “The teacher’s head has fallen.” Virtue smiled slightly and let it go at that. \nHmm\, not quite yet. Despite his earnestness\, Tooth could not yet accept Virtue’s invitation to directly enter the playfield of the Universe. He was still “attached to words” and “mired in phrases.” \nNext\, our friend Dragon Tooth went to the famous Cave Mountain (Dongshan). \nCave asked\, “Where did you come  from?” Tooth said\, “From Virtue Mountain.” Cave replied\,  “What did he have to say?” Tooth recounted his story. Cave asked\, “Yes\, but what did he say?” Tooth said\, “He had no words.” Cave replied\, “Don’t say that he had no words. Instead try to take Virtue Mountain’s fallen head and show it to me.” \nAt this\, Tooth realized he and all things were not two. The source of his muse was unknowable\, but also\, he did not need to know. Dragon Tooth burned a stick of incense and gazed toward Virtue Mountain in deepest thanks. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Snipe Hunt for Intimacy
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nWhen I was about in the fourth grade\, I joined the Boy Scouts where I stayed into high school. I remember my mother shopping with me for a khaki shirt and scarf at H.C. Capwell’s department store and then myself sewing the patches “Troop 302”\, a touch crooked\, on the left shoulder. The Scouts gave us a great chance to go camping\, which I loved\, and eventually I saved enough money from mowing lawns to go to the council’s summer camp\, called Wolfboro\, in the Sierras. \nA monk asked Great Master Ma\, “Apart from the four propositions and beyond the hundred negations\, I ask you teacher\, to clearly show me the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the West.”\nThe Great Master said: ”I’m tired today and can’t explain it for you. Go ask Zhizang.”\n \n—The Book of Serenity\, Case 6 \nThere was a tradition at the camp that on the first evening\, the Tenderfeet were taken on a snipe hunt. I didn’t even know what a snipe was. The older boys gave us younger ones a flashlight\, a plate and spoon from our mess kit\, and guided us into the forest to search for the elusive bird. We were told to bang the plate with the spoon and yell\, “Here snipe! Here snipe! Come here\, snipe!” \nThe monk then goes to Zhizang\, who tells him he has a headache and can’t explain\, but suggests he seek out elder brother Hai (Baizhang). Hai says that\, “For all the time I have been here\, I still don’t get it.” \nWe were excited when we headed into the woods\, and soon enough one of the older boys shouted\, “There is one over here!” We ran over shining our beams\, but the bird had fled. Another boy shouted from the other direction\, “There’s one!” and we rushed toward him. Alas\, the snipe once again escaped. After about a half hour of banging and yelling\, and several more missed chances\, we made our way back to the campfire where the scoutmaster had hot chocolate waiting for us. We laughed and joked around the fire. \nThe hapless monk then returns to Mazu\, who tells him\, “Zang’s head is white\, and Hai’s head is black.” \nWhat is our monk searching for here? It is the same things you and I are wanting: inclusion\, intimacy\, and some sense of the light. What he probably does not realize is that the search itself is full of inclusion\, intimacy\, and light. The search itself is the fulfillment of his deepest wants. In the kindest way\, that is what the three teachers are trying to show him. Koun Yamada writes of this koan: “It is important to realize that each of these statements is the complete manifestation of the ultimate truth of Buddhism\, the meaning of coming from the West.” Each statement is an invitation to join in the play of the universe. \nAfter a few years in the Scouts\, I was asked to watch over some Tenderfeet coming to camp. One morning we woke up and\, though we had bacon to cook for breakfast\, someone had forgotten the darned bacon stretcher. So I asked several younger boys to go around to other camps and see if they could borrow a left-handed bacon stretcher. They searched and searched\, but could not find one. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-45/
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:No regular Monday meeting today. \nJOIN JON JOSEPH & FRIENDS FOR A VISIT WITH PICO IYER \nIN OUR ZEN LUMINARIES SERIES ON JANUARY 27th \n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on next Monday for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-44/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:ZEN LUMINARIES: Aflame – Learning from Silence: Jon Joseph in Conversation with Essayist & Author Pico Iyer
DESCRIPTION:Pico Iyer returns to Zen Luminaries for a wide-ranging discussion on his life\, work\, and latest book\, Aflame: Learning from Silence. \nReading Aflame may help many to lead lives of greater compassion and deeper peace of mind. \n—His Holiness the Dalai Lama \n\nPico Iyer is one of the great storytellers of our time. He has traveled the world for decades\, writing for periodicals or doing research for one of his many books. For much of that time he would return\, again and again\, to the Hermitage—a Benedictine monastery high above the Pacific Coast in Big Sur\, California. Pico has visited the Hermitage over a hundred times in the past thirty-two years\, in search of silence. In Aflame: Learning from Silence\, he shares memories and reflections on his time spent there in solitude. \nThe silence of a monastery is not like that of a deep forest or mountaintop; it’s active and thrumming\, almost palpable. And part of its beauty—what deepens and extends it—is that it belongs to all of us.  \nIn the solitude of my cell\, I often feel closer to the people I care for than when they’re in the same room\, reminded in the sharpest way why I love them; in silence all the unmet strangers across the property come to feel like friends\, joined at the root. \nAnd there has been been fire\, not just the fire that destroyed Iyer’s Santa Barbara home\, but the grass fires threatened his treasured Hermitage and its resident monks. \n“Sooner or later the world must burn\, and all things in it\,” writes the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Yet he also knows that the monk’s first duty is to keep the fires within alight. “If you so wish\,” observes one of the Desert Fathers whose sayings Merton collects\, “you can become aflame.” \nJoin us for a fascinating conversation with Pico on the Hermitage\, Leonard Cohen’s time as a cloistered Zen monk\, his journeys with the Dalai Lama\, and fires that burn within our hearts and in the world outside. \n—Jon Joseph \n\n\nPico Iyer was born in Oxford\, England in 1957. In 1980\, he became a Teaching Fellow at Harvard\, where he received a second Master’s degree\, and in subsequent years received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters. Since 1982\, he has been a full-time writer\, publishing fifteen books translated into twenty-three languages\, on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to globalism\, from the Cuban Revolution to Islamic mysticism. \nHis books include such long-running sellers as Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk\, The Global Soul\, The Open Road and The Art of Stillness. He has been a constant contributor for more than thirty years to Time\, The New York Times\, Harper’s Magazine\, the Los Angeles Times\, and more than 250 periodicals worldwide. His four recent talks for TED have received more than eleven million views. \nSince 1992\, Iyer has spent much of his time at a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur\, California\, and most of the rest in suburban Japan. \n\nSource: www.picoiyerjourneys.com \n\n \nJon Joseph Roshi of San Mateo Zen and PZI created this series to support the hardworking innovators and shining voices of modern Zen: scholars\, writers\, poets\, translators\, activists\, artists\, teachers\, and more. \nAll proceeds for each event\, including teacher dana\, go directly to the guest speaker. Event attendees are encouraged to give as generously as you are able\, so we can offer deep thanks to Luminaries guests. \nOur suggested donation is $10 for PZI Members and $12 for Non-Members\, but the scale slides from zero depending on one’s ability to contribute. We also greatly appreciate Patrons\, who help support the program with larger gifts of $25—$250.
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/zen-luminaries-aflame-learning-from-silence-jon-joseph-in-conversation-with-essayist-novelist-pico-iyer/
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Gaia Shows the Way
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFollowing the heavy rains\, scores of Chinook salmon showed up in Sonoma Creek\, a narrow\, thirty-mile stream that flows into the San Francisco Bay. They came to spawn and then die\, as they have done for millennia. Extreme drought and decades of development brought the collapse of salmon and steelhead populations\, forcing California to ban fishing of those species along its Pacific coast. Yet this year the large salmon\, also known as “Kings\,” returned. \nGaia shows that she can heal. Here is a koan for healing: \nYunmen said to the assembly\,\n“Medicine and sickness cure each other.\nAll the great earth is medicine.\nWhat are you?” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 87\, transl. John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland \nImages and videos of the fires in SoCal bring painful memories for those of us previously touched by fire. Five years ago the Kincade Fire rode on the back of Diablo winds—similar to Santa Anas—devastating our rural Sonoma neighborhood: Charred live and valley oaks\, burned manzanita and madrone\, and underfoot\, scorched grass. All the homes in the area\, save our own and a few others\, had burned. After the fire passed I watched a lone coyote amble on the blackened slope across the creek\, searching for dead rodents. \nMedicine and sickness heal each other. But despair has not been my strongest emotion hearing the terrible news from Los Angeles. I feel my appreciation for the power of renewal and healing that the great earth\, Gaia\, brings. \nIf Gaia can heal\, perhaps we\, too\, can heal. When I hike with my dog through the Mayacama hills\, most signs of the Kincade have been overtaken by new growth: the wildrye and fescue returned quickly\, followed by madrone\, manzanita and oaks. Only the gray pines remain as charred sentinels along the ridge line. \nDespair could come easily in these times\, especially for us gray-hairs. But at Pacific Zen we have a saying\, “Despair assumes too much knowing.” I see my young daughters deeply engaged in great-earth work\, seeking to make their future not just possible\, but promising. One has worked for several years in forestry and is currenly training to be a prescribed-burn crew boss. The other works as an analyst at a political polling firm. When I meet their friends\, I find them energetic\, action-oriented\, and full of hope. It is wrong and unfair for us to predict that they have no future. \nGaia finds a way\, all on her own. We don’t need to help her so much as we need to get out of her way. When we do\, the Chinook return to Sonoma Creek. \nHomeric Hymn to Gaia\nby Diane J. Rayor\, from The Homeric Hymns\, 30 \nI will sing to the mother of all\, firmly-rooted Gaia.\neldest living deity who feeds all the world’s life—\nwhether on the divine land\, in the deep sea\,\nor flying about—all beings feed from your plenty.\nFine children and rich harvests arise from you.\nO Queen; you alone give mortal folk a livelihood\,\nor take it away. The one you graciously honor\nis truly blessed. For him\, all is abundant:\nhis life-giving fields bear fruit\, flocks thrive\nin his pastures… \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-43/
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: In the Sea of Uncertainty: Knowing the Not Knowing of Our Lives
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIn the dream\, I am floating on my back off the coast of the Big Island\, in Hawai’i. There is a gentle swell\, and the water is clear and warm\, and very deep. I look around me\, and the waters are alive with schooling fish and diving birds. I fall asleep in the dream for a time and\, when I awaken\, I realize no sharks have come\, though most of the fish and birds have moved on. The feeling of the dream is warm\, vast and inviting. \nIn recent years\, this is the kind of feeling that has visited me\, and I am sure you too\, when I keep company with “not knowing” in my life and practice. It is a greater appreciation for the vast and clear sea of life\, sea of love\, sea of light\, sea of uncertainty\, with both immediate gifts and infinite possibility. And pain\, as well. \nThere are a number of well-known koans that return us again and again to the sea of uncertainty: \n“Why are you going on pilgrimage?” asked Dizhang. “I don’t know\,” replied Fayan.\n“Who are you\, standing here before me?” inquired Emperor Wu. “I Don’t know\,” responded Bodhidharma.\nA student asked Zhao Zhou\, “If you don’t dwell in clarity\, what do you live by?” “Again\, I don’t know\,” said Zhao. \n—The Book of Serenity\, 20; The Blue Cliff Record\, 1&2 \nLast week we were having a holiday glass of wine with friends\, one of whom was recently diagnosed with cancer\, underwent chemotherapy and had his bladder removed. He said the doctor had found him to be cancer free\, and we all gave him a hearty toast. He then wryly added\, “At least until my next checkup in six months.” I thought\, “None of us can see beyond six months. We can’t even see beyond a week.” Another acquaintance\, extremely fit in his mid-80s\, broke a wrist playing tennis a couple of weeks ago\, developed sepsis and died on the first day of Hanukkah. Floating on the sea of uncertainty. \nIn some mysterious way\, the universe is constructing and deconstructing itself moment by moment. We are part of that construction project. Yet by the time we recognize our vital role\, the moment has passed and the universe has changed\, made wholly new once again. \nThis process of deepening\, of appreciation\, is without end. Many years ago\, sitting in sesshin at the small SanUn Zendo\, I was surprised to hear Koun Yamada start his teisho with the simple statement\, “In the past ten years\, my understanding of this koan has deepened immeasurably. A decade ago\, I would not be giving the same talk.” We are continually knowing not-knowing. And then not knowing that. \nThis morning we received a video clip from a friend whose house is in Altadena\, in Los Angeles. Driving down her neighborhood block is house upon house\, gutted and burned out\, with many of them still smoldering. She was certain her’s was lost\, but she comes to it and finds it still standing\, and exclaims\, “The turquoise lawn chairs survived. Amazing!” \nHunger for Something \nSometimes I long to be the woodpile\,\ncut-apart tree soon to be smoke\,\nor even the smoke itself\, \nsinewy ghost of ash and air\, going\nwhere I want to\, at least for a while. \nNeither inside nor out\, \nneither lost nor home\, no longer\na shape or a name I’ll pass through \nall the broken windows of the world.\nIt’s not a wish for consciousness to end. \nIt’s not the appetite an army has\nfor its own emptying heart\,\nbut a hunger to stand now and then \nalone on the death grounds\,\nwhere the dogs of the self are feeding. \n—Chase Twichell\, The Snow Watcher  \n  \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-42/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on January 13th. We hope you join us then! \n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Taking Refuge in Family
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe winter holidays are family time around my house. Decades ago\, my mother began a tradition of gathering her six children and our broods on Christmas Eve. A few nights ago we numbered nearly thirty. As the seasonal rains murmured through the downspouts\, we threw juniper chunks on the fire\, tucked into our potluck feast\, and later played some very silly games. \nTraditionally\, the ceremony by which Buddhist monks are ordained is called shukke (出家)—home departure—which is a grave severing of the filial duties most Asian societies expect of children. Zen’s Sixth Ancestor Huineng was making a meager living selling firewood while he and his mother suffered extreme poverty. On hearing a monk chant the Diamond Sutra\, Huineng awakened and knew he must leave his mother and travel to a monastery in the north to study Zen. He left one small family to find another. \nLayman Pang\, who lived a couple of generations after Huineng\, is probably the best known family man from the golden age of Chan-Zen. After studying with Mazu\, he traveled about with his wife and two children\, visiting various temples and teachers. \nLayman Pang and his daughter Lingzhao were selling bamboo baskets. Coming down off a bridge he stumbled and fell. When Lingzhao saw this she ran to her father’s side and threw herself on the ground.\n“What are you doing?” cried the Layman.\n“I saw Daddy fall down\, so I’m helping\,“ replied Lingzhao.\n“Luckily no one was looking\,“ remarked the Layman. \n—The Recorded Sayings of Layman Pang\, The Anecdotes \n“I take refuge in my companions\,” is the third of the PZI Refuge Vows\, which include taking refuge in awakening and the teachings. When we join a sangha\, we come together as a kind of family—as brothers and sisters on the path. It is a familial act to look after one another: a check-in\, a brief note\, sitting together in the Open Temple. This is what family members do: they fall down together on the road. And then they pick up the baskets together. \nThis is how we come to understand our relationship to the greater household we live in\, the community of all things. Rocks\, sticks\, ants and grizzly bears support us\, and it is lovely that we\, in turn\, support them. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on December 30th. We hope you join us then! \n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: There Is a Light That Shines in All of Us
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunmen taught\, “Everybody has a light inside of them. Sometimes it is dark\, dark and dim\, and hard to see. What is the light that shines in you?” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 86 \nZen is about seeing and appreciating the light in all things. Some of that is finding the light within the light: This early winter morning\, broken sunshine illuminated wet grass in the olive orchard across the drive. The grass\, thickened in the seasonal rains. \nPerhaps the greatest work is in realizing the light within the dark: This afternoon an unhoused woman stood in the portico of the local Walmart\, soaked from the cold rain\, possessions in the shopping cart standing by her. Perhaps she was weighing her options. She too shone with a kind of light. \nA few nights ago classics translator Emily Wilson visited with us and reflected on the light within the dark in her work. Of The Iliad\, Homer’s poem of the Trojan War\, she writes: “Human mortality is at the center of it all …” Yet The Iliad makes the whole world feel gloriously alive. \nHow is that possible—so much death and so much life? So much blood and so many tears? \nWilson ends her introduction like this: \nYou already know the story. You will die. Everyone you love will die. You will lose them forever. You will be sad and angry. You will weep. You will bargain. You will make demands. You will beg. You will pray. It will make no difference. Nothing you can do will bring them back. You know this. Your knowing changes nothing. This poem will make you understand this unfathomable truth again and again. \nIn the above koan it is Yunmen who guides us toward appreciating the unfathomable by celebrating the fathomable. He points to the fact that the light is only knowable in its ordinariness\, in its expression of this complicated life. In responding to his own question\, “What is the light that shines in you?” Yunmen answers “Kitchen pantry and temple gate.” Dark and dim\, how wonderful that it shines on this plain of Troy. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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SUMMARY:ZEN LUMINARIES: Jon Joseph in Conversation with Classicist & Author Emily Wilson — Western Koans: The Goddesses and Women of Homer
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIn the old days there were sixteen bodhisattvas. When it was time to bathe they got into the bath together. They suddenly realized the cause of water and said\, “This subtle touch releases the brightness. We have become the sons and daughters of the Buddha.” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 78 \nThere is something about the above koan that reminds me of the warriors\, women\, and gods of The Iliad. Their bath is on the plains of Troy\, where they find themselves immersed in love\, fighting\, tears\, and\, ultimately\, death. “Human mortality is at the center of it all\,” writes classics translator Emily Wilson. “I know of no other narrative that evokes with such unflinching truthfulness the vulnerability of the human body.” \nPerhaps more than anything\, The Iliad centers on the story of two great warriors: the Greek Achilles and the Trojan Hector. After Hector kills Achilles’ dear friend Patroclus\, Achilles seeks murderous revenge\, finally cutting Hector down. The gods wish Hector to have a proper burial\, and direct his proud and grieving father\, Priam\, to go to Achilles’ camp and offer ransom for Hector’s body. On arrival\, wholly exposed to his enemy\, old Priam supplicates himself. \nThis made Achilles yearn\nto mourn for his father. With his hand\, he gently\ntook hold of the old man and pushed him back.\nThen both remembered whom they had lost.\nCurled like a ball beside Achilles’ feet\nPriam sobbed desperately for murderous Hector.\nAchilles wept\, at times for his own father\,\nand sometimes for Patroclus.\nSo their wailing suffused the house. \nWilson writes\, “I have now lived with this poem for some thirty-five years—rereading it\, teaching it in the original and in various translations\, and now\, rendering it into English. For the last six years\, I have worked intensively on this translation. But even now\, when I turn back to lines I have read hundreds of times already\, I find that the raw power of the Greek still startles me\, like Athena suddenly tugging Achilles by the hair to stop him in his tracks. Often\, I am unable to read without goose bumps\, tears\, or both.” \n\nEmily Wilson is a British American classicist\, author\, and translator. In 2018\, she became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer’s Odyssey. Her translation of the Iliad was released in September 2023. \nWilson is Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She attended Oxford University and Yale University\, receiving a Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature. \nWilson has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and Early Modern scholarship\, a MacArthur Fellow\, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Philadelphia with her family and pets. \nMore books by Emily Wilson: Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004)\, The Death of Socrates: Hero\, Villain\, Chatterbox\, Saint (2007)\, and The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca (2014) \nsources: Wikipedia\, emilyrcwilson.com \n\nThe effect [of Wilson’s translation] is not so much to bring the characters of the Iliad into the contemporary sphere\, as to bring us into theirs. … A poem you read with your heart in your throat. \n—A. E. Stallings\, The Spectator\, September 2023 \n\nThis event is funded in part by the 2024 Frederick P. Lenz Foundation “Women in Buddhism” Grant.\n\n \n\n \nJon Joseph Roshi of San Mateo Zen and PZI created this series to support the hardworking innovators and shining voices of modern Zen: scholars\, writers\, poets\, translators\, activists\, artists\, teachers\, and more. \nAll proceeds for each event\, including teacher dana\, go directly to the guest speaker. Event attendees are encouraged to give as generously as you are able\, so we can offer deep thanks to Luminaries guests. \nOur suggested donation is $10 for PZI Members and $12 for Non-Members\, but the scale slides from zero depending on one’s ability to contribute. We also greatly appreciate Patrons\, who help support the program with larger gifts of $50—250. \n 
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today and will return on December 16th. We hope to see you then! \n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: It's Complicated: Odysseus Returns Home
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nTell me about a complicated man.\nMuse\, tell me how he wandered and was lost\nwhen he had wrecked the holy town of Troy\,\nand where he went\, and who he met\, the pain\nhe suffered on the sea … Now goddess\, child of Zeus\,\ntell the old story of our modern times.\nFrom the beginning. \n—The Odyssey by Homer\, translated by Emily Wilson \nSo opens the nearly three-thousand-year-old Greek epic about a man trying to return to his original home. This tale is not very different from our own wandering in the Chan-Zen tradition. Perhaps it is wholly the same. \nDizang asks Fayan\, “Where are you going?\nLost\, Fayan responds\, “I am wandering\, trying to get back to my true home.”\n“Why are you doing that?”\n“I am not at all sure\,” replies Fayan.\n“Being lost\, being unsure\, that itself is your original home\,” answers Dizang. \nWhen The Odyssey opens\, our hero—sacker of cities\, trickster\, beggar\, pirate\, loving husband and father—is being held captive by the alluring and powerful nymph Calypso\, who wishes to keep him as her lover for all eternity. Instead\, forlorn\, he sits all day long on the shore of her island\, weeping for the family and community he has not seen in two decades. Rather than the immortality of the gods that she is offering\, he wishes instead to once again “see the smoke that rises/from his own homeland\, and he wants to die.” \nEmily Wilson’s translation of the classic is “majestic as literature gets\,” writes one critic. She brings forth the light of this one hero’s journey that shines through all ages\, regions and cultures. It radiates with the nature\, which is our self nature. There is an immediacy\, intimacy and familiarity in both the story and the translation that allows us to embody the journey and know it to be our own. \nTell me about a complicated man and woman\, who have wandered and have been lost\, who have done both wonderful and awful things\, and who now just wish to return home to their hearths and families. Tell me\, Muse\, an old story of our modern times. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today. Come join us next on December 2nd! \n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today. Come join us next on December 2nd! \n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today. Come join us next on December 2nd! \n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: The Sweetest Fig: Gifts From Unexpected Quarters
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThis very place is paradise\,\nthis very body the Buddha. \n—Hakuin Ekaku\, Praise Song for Meditation \nWar\, conflict\, argument. These times have long been with us\, and because inside and outside are not two\, they penetrate our hearts and minds. Like the Bodhisattva of Compassion\, we cannot help but hear and see the cries of the world. But is it so strange to consider relief from those cries coming from simple\, unexpected quarters? \nThis year we had a tremendous harvest of figs from our family tree. And after making jam and pickled figs\, I slowly dry several pounds of fruit in the oven. Each afternoon\, as I take out a couple of figs from the plastic bag in the fridge\, I think of Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem about her Palestinian father\, a journalist who was a passionate lover of figs. \n“Appreciate your life\,” one of my Zen teachers often said. I take a dried fig in hand\, and feeling its leathery skin\, I hear the crunch of seeds between my teeth and taste the sweet pulp of its fruit. Because inside and outside are not two\, the precious fig-ness spills out to the far corners of the world\, making it a bit more rich in being. \nLast week\, like thousands of others\, I sent Naomi—a Pacific Zen Luminary—a note of congratulations for having received the prestigious Wallace Stevens Award for poetry. Her reply\, which included thanks\, was perfect Naomi: “I will try to be worthy!” Too late; already accomplished. Worthy of the largest\, fattest\, sweetest fig in the world. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nMy Father and the Fig Tree \nFor other fruits\, my father was indifferent.\nHe’d point at the cherry trees and say\,\n“See those? I wish they were figs.”\nIn the evening he sat by my bed\nweaving folktales like vivid little scarves.\nThey always involved a figtree.\nEven when it didn’t fit\, he’d stick it in.\nOnce Joha was walking down the road\nand he saw a fig tree.\nOr\, he tied his donkey to a figtree\nand went to sleep.\nOr\, later when they caught and arrested him\,\nhis pockets were full of figs. \nAt age six I ate a dried fig and shrugged.\n“That’s not what I’m talking about!” he said.\n“I’m talking about a fig straight from the earth –\ngift of Allah! — on a branch so heavy it touches the ground.\nI’m talking about picking the largest\, fattest\, sweetest fig\nin the world and putting it in my mouth.”\n(Here he’d stop and close his eyes.) \nYears passed\, we lived in many houses\, none had figtrees.\nWe had lima beans\, zucchini\, parsley\, beets.\n“Plant one!” my mother said. but my father never did.\nHe tended garden half-heartedly\, forgot to water\,\nlet the okra get too big.\n“What a dreamer he is. Look how many things he starts\nand doesn’t finish.” \nThe last time he moved\, I got a phone call.\nMy father\, in Arabic\, chanting a song I’d never heard.\n“What’s that?”\n“Wait til you see!”\nHe took me out back to the new yard.\nThere\, in the middle of Dallas\, Texas\,\na tree with the largest\, fattest\, sweetest figs in the world.\n“It’s a figtree song!” he said\,\nplucking his fruits like ripe tokens\,\nemblems\, assurance\nof a world that was always his own. \n—Naomi Shihab Nye\, from Everything Comes Next \n\n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Sesshin Field Notes: In Praise of the Dark
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSesshin Field Notes: In Praise of the Dark \nYunyan asked Daowu\, “How does the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion use all her hands and eyes?”  \nWu said\, “It’s like reaching behind you for a pillow in the night.”  \nYan said\, “I understand.”   \nWu said\, “How do you understand?”  \nYan replied\, “All over the body are hands and eyes.”  \nWu said\, “You have said quite a bit there\, but you’ve only said eighty percent of it.”  \nYan said\, “What do you say\, Elder Brother?”  \nWu replied\, “Throughout the body are hands and eyes.” \n—The Blue Cliff Record Case 89 \nWhat is the heart-mind of the bodhisattva upon entering Zen sesshin—cloistered silence\, many hours of meditation\, walks through the wooded hills? I pay close attention to my dreams in the weeks before sesshin to perhaps understand what my psyche is trying to reflect back to me. Several days before our recent fall retreat\, I had the following dream: \nI am sitting in a comfortable public space where people are moving about. The sun is shining in a garden outside and people are enjoying the warm weather. I find myself chatting with a teacher whom I had known at Zen Center of Los Angeles forty years ago. He says to me\, “I shouldn’t have chosen that guy as my assistant; he wasn’t any good.” The implication was that he should have picked me instead. Mildly flattered\, I am also incredulous: I have not spoken with this teacher in thirty years\, yet I have a single important connection: the teacher in the dream was the first to give me the koan Mu. \nMore than ten years ago when I became a teacher in the Pacific Zen tradition\, I had a dream about Taizan Maezumi Roshi\, who had been this man’s teacher. Still in the dream with the younger man\, I tell him of my dream about Maezumi: \nIn the early one morning dark\, Maezumi comes down the stairs to do kentan\, a review of the zendo\, which is full of monks in black robes seated on cushions\, atop a raised platform. Only a single seat is open\, to my right. Maezumi sits next to me\, which I take to mean he approves of my teaching. \nThis telling ended my dream within a dream. \nWhat did my present dream mean to me? At first I thought it might have to do with the linkage of succession from the young teacher back to his teacher and further back to his. But that explanation did not seem to hold power. \nA few days later I spoke with a friend about the dream\, and she said it perhaps meant I had lost confidence in my own understanding and teaching. Seeking two approvals\, I was seeking validation outside myself when I should be seeking it inside. Though a touch painful to hear\, that interpretation rang of truth and had a warmth to it. \nIn meeting students in dokusan on the first couple of days of sesshin\, I heard them express similar doubts and fears. As bodhisattvas coming into retreat\, they too were struggling with the materia negra\, the dark matter of the soul. \nThough we do not realize it at first\, passing through the dark night of the soul is the place of true freedom. From Melville’s Moby-Dick: \nWe asked the captain what course of action he proposed to take toward a beast so large\, terrifying\, and unpredictable. He hesitated to answer\, and then said\, judiciously\, “I think I shall praise it.” \n—Jon Joseph \nWriter’s Note: As I send this out\, we are entering the final days of our annual fall sesshin\, “The Manifestations of the 1000-Armed Goddess of Mercy\,” held at the Santa Sabina Convent in San Rafael\, California. We have been holding two or three retreats here every year for a decade\, but ownership of this beautiful century-old Benedictine sanctuary will soon change and we will move our retreats elsewhere. We wish to thank the many generations of women who have lived here\, dedicating their lives to God and their community. We will miss them. \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:NO MONDAY ZEN TODAY \nJon is preparing for sesshin today\, returning to Monday Zen on October 28th. \nHope to see you then! \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-12/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: “Yoshi” Means Good in Our Dreams and Lives
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n“Yoshi” Means Good in Our Dreams and Lives \nLast night when I was sleeping\,\nI dreamt—marvelous error!—\nthat a spring was breaking out\nout in my heart… \n—Anthony Machado\, “Last Night When I Was Sleeping” \nThis morning I woke up from a dream that I had finished writing this note while sleeping. Though it seemed I was working on the note through the second half of the night\, upon waking I couldn’t remember its contents\, only that it was called “yoshi (吉).” In Japanese\, yoshi means “good\, good luck\, or joy\,” and there are at least five different kanji characters that read as yoshi. \nI notice how often the word “good” appears in koans. Yunmen’s “good day\,” Layman Pang’s “good snowflakes\,” and Ching’s “good news” when a chick breaks out of its shell. Even “the whole world is medicine” and “Bodhisattvas\, come eat your rice” have the feeling of generosity.\n\nYet we also live in Huineng’s world of “before thinking good or evil\,” where a beautiful and essential light shines in all things. We can’t call that light “good”—that would make the world smaller because it is more than good: it drinks in the whole universe\, both good and bad. So instead we call it “the nature\,” and when we see the nature\, we call that kensho. \n\nDuring Open Temple this morning\, my thoughts wandered to my friend’s husband\, who died last week. He had been diagnosed with cancer three years go and it was in check\, and then suddenly it wasn’t. He was a good man\, a very good man\, and funny. As a child he was chosen to be the spokes-kid for Oscar Meyer\, riding the Wienermobile. And now\, like a dream\, he is gone. But his memory remains. It is yoshi. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nMachado’s poem continues:\n\nI said: Along which secret aqueduct\,\nOh water\, are you coming to me\,\nwater of a new life\nthat I have never drunk?\n\nLast night as I was sleeping\,\nI dreamt—marvelous error!—\nthat I had a beehive\nhere inside my heart.\nAnd the golden bees\nwere making white combs\nand sweet honey\nfrom my old failures.\n\nLast night as I was sleeping\,\nI dreamt—marvelous error!—\nthat a fiery sun was giving\nlight inside my heart.\nIt was fiery because I felt\nwarmth as from a hearth\,\nand sun because it gave light\nand brought tears to my eyes.\n\nLast night as I slept\,\nI dreamt—marvelous error!—\nthat it was God I had\nhere inside my heart.    \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-37-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241007T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Refuge in the Limbs and Branches of This Tree of Life
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nI vow not to kill\nDogen: The Buddha’s seed grows when you don’t take life. Pass on the Buddha’s life and do not kill.  \nI vow not to steal\nDogen: Just as they are\, you and the things of the world are one. The gate to freedom is open.  \nI vow not to misuse sex\nDogen: The three wheels of yourself\, others\, and your actions are pure. When you desire nothing\, you follow the Buddha’s Way.  \nI vow not to lie\nDogen: The Dharma Wheel turns from the beginning. There is never too much or too little. Everything is wet with dew and the truth is ready to harvest.  \nI vow not to misuse drugs\nDogen: Drugs are not brought in yet. Don’t bring them in. That is the great light. \nIf the Refuge Vows (I take refuge in awakening\, the Way and my companions) are the very roots of our tree of life\, and the Pure Vows (I vow to do no harm\, to do good\, and to do good for others) are its trunk\, then the Ten Bodhisattva Vows (sometimes translated as the “Ten Grave Precepts”) are the tree reaching out into the world\, its branches and leaves touching the wind\, rain and sunshine of space. \nLike the previous\, the Bodhisattva Vows are studied over many months as koans. What does it mean to kill? To give a doctor orders not to resuscitate a dying loved one? To dampen some light in ourselves and others? Do not steal\, misuse sex\, lie\, misuse intoxicants? If in all the universe there is not one thing out of place\, how then is it even helpful to lean into making our lives and the lives of others better? Maybe just asking the questions is the best we can do. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-37-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240930T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240930T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Three Pure Vows
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nLast week\, in spending time with the Three Refuge Vows\, we talked about the act and experience of taking refuge in awakening\, the Way\, and our companions. Now we are looking into the second set of three vows\, the Three Pure Vows. \nI vow to do no harm.\nI vow to do good.\nI vow to do good for others. \nIn spending time with these vows as koans\, it naturally brings up questions like\, what does “pure” mean?  What is harm\, good\, and good for others? Where is the cave of the Buddhas\, and how do we find the source of their teachings? The path of perfect enlightenment\, it is said we all walk\, is that my path? Ordinary and awakened; free ourselves and others. Much to talk about. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-36-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240923T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240923T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: A Place Where One Belongs
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nA Place Where One Belongs\nI take refuge in awakening\nI take refuge in the way\nI take refuge in my companions \n —The Three Refuge Vows\, from Pacific Zen’s Ceremony of Taking Refuge in the Bodhisattva Way \nWhat does it mean to take refuge? The dictionary defines it as “a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit\, danger\, or trouble.” It is entering a safe place. \nAt the same time\, while most commonly the Chinese characters (三 帰) are translated as “the three refuges\,” their direct translation means “the three returns: returning home\, going to a place where one belongs\, return from whence one came.” Indeed. \nJoin us. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-36-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240916T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240916T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Every Year a Tomato Year
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nEvery Year a Tomato Year\nYunmen said\, “I’m not asking you about before the full moon. Come and say a word or two about after the full moon.”\nAnd he himself replied\, “Every day is a good day.” \n   — The Blue Cliff Record Case 6 \nFor me\, every year is a tomato year. For some decades\, I have planted tomato seeds in the late winter\, guarded them from snails as they became small starts\, planted and watered them in the early summer\, and in August and September harvested\, blanched\, roasted\, canned or froze them. And through those late summer months\, I have but one meal in the morning: sliced tomato with a dab of mayonnaise on a piece of toast. Morning after morning. Every year is a good year. And before we use the tags of good and evil\, it is just a year. Somehow\, that itself is a celebration. \nPablo Neruda’s poem Ode to Tomatoes begins: \nThe street\nfilled with tomatoes\nmidday\,\nsummer\,\nlight is\nhalved\nlike a tomato\,\nits juice\nruns\nthrough the streets… \nJoin us Monday. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-36-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240909T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240909T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: A Concord of Sweet Sounds
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n“But music for a time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself\, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds\, is fit for treasons\, stratagems\, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night…Let no such man be trusted.” \n—Lorenzo\, in Shakespear’s The Merchant of Venice \nTwo of the most trusted men in our universe—Michael Wilding and Jordan Mcconnell\, will join us on Monday night for a concord of sweet sounds: playing and talking about the source of sound and music. We may investigate strains of South Asian melodies in the sweet notes of the flute. Or we may hear in the strings of the guitar the story of an abandoned and barren island off the coast of Ireland\, music written by the fairies to the thrum of wind in halyards and sheets of old sailing vessels. \nJoin us. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-36-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240902T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240902T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Sitting on Great Courage Peak
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nSitting On Great Courage Peak\nA student asked Baizhang\, “What is the most wonderful and special thing?”\n“Sitting alone on Great Courage Peak.”\nThe student bowed\, and Baizhang hit him. \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 26 \nI was visiting this koan with a friend the other day\, and what impressed me was this case’s ordinariness: just our sitting alone\, right where we are\, is enough. \n“Great Courage Peak” sounds kind of aspirational\, but it was just the name of the mountain where Baizhang lived. He could have as easily said Geyser Peak\, Lake Tahoe\, or Bolinas. Or he could have responded\, “Sitting alone drinking a latte at Peets Coffee.” Or blanching and packing tomatoes in my kitchen. Reading The Record of Dongshan in the early morning. Don’t say “could be.” It is. \nWhen Dongshan was leaving\, he said to Yunyen\, his teacher\, “If in a hundred years someone were to ask me how to describe you\, how should I respond?” Yunyen answered\, “Say\, ’Just this. This!’” Dongshan fell silent. \nThere is something wonderful and special about just-this-ness. The just-this-ness of Chan-Zen is a fullness\, an enoughness\, a wholeness. That is so great because we are the complete package\, whatever mountain we sit on\, even if we are sitting alone on no-courage mountain. \nMany years ago\, somebody felt they had to name just-this-ness\, so they called it buddha nature. \nJoin us. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-36-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240826T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240826T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:NO MONDAY ZEN TODAY \nJon Joseph is on break until September 9th. Please join us then! \nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-35-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240819T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240819T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:NO MONDAY ZEN TODAY \nJon Joseph is on break until September 9th. Please join us then! \nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-35-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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