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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Iron Grinder Liu
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe nun Iron Grinder Liu came to visit Guishan.\nGuishan said\, “Oh\, you old buffalo! So you have come!”\nIron Grinder said\, “Tomorrow there will be a great charity meeting at Mount Tai. Will you be going?”\nGuishan sprawled on the ground.\nIron Grinder went away. \n—Book of Equanimity\, Case 60 \nA couple of things came up immediately as I began spending time with this koan and vice versa. First was a koan involving Yunmen in which someone asks\, “What is the essence of all of the teachings?” And Yunmen replies\, “Speaking in tune with any occasion.” Other translations have Yunmen saying\, “Say something in response.” I like the “in tune” version. \nSometimes it feels to me like I have an internal pitch pipe that lets me know if I’m in tune or out of tune with the situation or another person. Iron Grinder and Guishan are completely in tune with each other. It’s not the kind of being in tune like a barbershop quartet\, it’s more like two jazz musicians riffing. They’re not reading from sheet music; it is completely speaking without moving their lips or tongue. \nThe other thing that came up was Qingtan (Ch’ing T’an)\, or Pure Conversation. It was something popular in China between the 3rd–6th centuries CE. It featured discussions on merging Daoist dark learning with Confucianism. It emphasized abstract\, anti-mundane conversation—focusing on the Zhuangzi and I-Ching. \nThere is an account of two practitioners of Pure Conversation that I was reminded of by Iron Grinder leaving at the end of this koan. According to the story\, a practitioner of Pure Conversation walks some distance to another town where another practitioner of Pure Conversation lived. Upon arriving at the door of the other practitioner’s house\, without knocking on the door\, he turned and went home. I was told this is an example of the purest of Pure Conversation. At some point Buddhists also got involved in these kinds of conversations and it’s hard not to wonder about the influence of Pure Conversation on koan practice. \nSee you on Tuesday for some not so pure conversation. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-76/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T180000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Never Born\, Never Die
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOn a hilltop outside of Otsuchi\, Japan\, stands a telephone booth painted white. Inside is the simple rotary-style telephone\, called the “Wind Phone (Kaze no Denwa).” It is not connected to any telephone lines\, but is there for anyone who has lost a loved one to go into the booth and give them a call. Since the Tohoku Earthquake of 2011\, which killed ten percent of Otsuchi’s population\, many thousands of people from around the world have gone there to hold one-way conversations with the departed. Where do their loved ones go when they die? \nIn Zen\, there is a famous triptych of koans called Doushuai’s Three Barriers. The first asks\, As you’re searching for your true nature in the weeds and dark places of life\, where is that nature right now? The second asks\, When the light of your eyes dims\, how will you be free? The third questions: \nWhen you’re free from birth and death\, you know where to go. When your four elements separate\, where do you go? \nLast weekend I attended the memorial service for a Zen friend at one of the zendos he frequented over his many decades of practice. It was a warm tribute to the “Trickster Monk” as his son called him\, but I was also surprised at how simple it was. The hundred or so people took seats arrayed around the altar\, upon which sat an urn of the monk’s ashes. Three officiants\, all Soto priests\, came in and said a few words. The assembly chanted a couple of sutras\, drums were hit and bells rung\, the family spoke\, and then everyone filed out. Rain beat down heavily on the Zendo roof. A quiet ceremony. Low key. Loving and honoring. Where did he go? \nTraditional Buddhist faith says that there are nine states of mind; including the six senses\, the ego\, the karmic storehouse\, and pure consciousness itself. Yamada Koun wrote that upon death\, the senses may be lost\, but the ego and karmic storehouse remain; all a function of the greater pure consciousness\, which is neither born nor dies. These states of mind are “as though they were waves on the water of a vast ocean.” One time during a teisho I remember him admitting he really had no idea if there was some transmigration of the soul after death. All that is immutable is pure consciousness: “We were not born\,” he said\, “And we do not die.” \nThe weekend I left Japan for good after some years\, Yamada fell down some stairs and was incapacitated. A year later\, I was in Japan by chance for one week\, and visited him during a Sunday Zenkai. Unconscious in bed\, he was very pale. Three days later\, the Roshi passed away. On Friday night\, about a dozen people held a wake before the formal funeral\, to be held the next day. We sat in the Zendo\, only steps away from his casket\, and then chatted and drank sake late into the night. Finally\, we laid out our futons\, the ones we used during sesshin\, and slept in the Zendo with Yamada’s casket. It was one of the most blessed sleeps I have ever had. Early the next morning\, as the run was rising\, I put away my futon and headed to the airport for my return trip to the U.S. \nWhen he was dying\, Yunmen concluded as his last admonition\, “If you don’t understand\, the Buddhas have a clear teaching—follow and practice it.” To practice\, we don’t need to know where we are going after we die. \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-friends-7/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is ON BREAK today\, but will return on April 26th. Join us!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-jt-friends-on-break-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260419T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 19 de abril\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-19/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260418T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260418T100000
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for April 18th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-40/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T160000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-63/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260414T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260414T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Qinglin’s Snake
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Qinglin\, “When a student goes along the path\, what about that?”\nQinglin said\, “There’s a poisonous snake on the path. I advise the student not to run into it.”\n“What about when the student runs into it?”\n“She must mourn her life.”\n“What about when she doesn’t run into it?”\n“But there is no way to avoid it.”\n“Then how about at that moment?”\n“It completely disappeared.”\n“I wonder where it went.”\n“The grass is so deep that we can’t find it anywhere.”\n“You too should protect yourself against it.”\nQinglin rubbed his palms together and said\, “Both you and I are poisonous snakes.”  \n—Book of Equanimity\, Case 59 \nI have been enjoying the various ways this koan has been translated regarding the snake. There are two characters in question. One means “dead” or “death” and the other means “snake.” In a number of places\, it is translated as “Dead Snake.” In a number of other places\, it is translated as “Snake of Death” or “Death Snake.” The word “poisonous” does not appear\, it is an interpretation of the translator. \nI imagine the thinking was something along the lines of\, “If it is a snake of death\, then it must be poisonous.” I find it hard to understand how I lose my life to a dead snake. I suppose I might lose my life by suddenly realizing that I too will die someday in a more deeply intimate way than I had before that. So\, it is said that if you pick up the dead snake it will come alive\, if you really engage it. \nBut sometimes it’s like being bitten by a snake that I didn’t even know was there. Suddenly all of my ideas and concepts fall away and I’m not who I was anymore. \nHave you ever been bitten by this snake? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-77/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Starry Night
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nNanquan then added\, “The Way does not belong to knowing or not-knowing. Knowing is delusion; not-knowing is dullness.\n“When we really have reached the true Way beyond all doubt\, we find it as vast and boundless as outer space.\n“How can it be talked about on a level of right and wrong?” \nThe ineffability of outer space\, of Sol\, Luna\, stellae\, and beyond: star systems upon star systems\, galaxy upon galaxy stretching to the furthest corners of the universe. And what is all that vastness? \nZhaozhou leads off the koan by asking his teacher Naquan:\n“What is the Way?”\nNanquan responds simply:\n“Ordinary mind is the Way.” \nNanquan is telling us our lives\, which we often see as small and narrow\, are larger than we can possibly imagine. That our ordinary\, everyday mind is actually vast and boundless; it is the universe itself. We somehow know this to be true and seek a kind of intimacy with the ineffable by seeking to name it: Venus\, Jupiter\, Crab Nebula\, and other star systems which make up the mages of heroes and serpents moving across the dark night fabric. We dream of going out to meet the unknowable. \nMy own ordinary thoughts have been saturated with stories of space travel in recent weeks. NASA’s Artemis program\, with its fresh pictures of the dark side of the moon\, took me back to the summer of 1969. My father had just bought us a new color set (“Don’t sit too close! The radiation is bad for you!”) and the whole family\, including us six kids\, two parents\, and our terrier Daisy\, crammed into our small T.V. room to watch Neil Armstrong step off the lander’s ladder (in B&W\, of course). How exciting it was! \nI have also been recently inthralled by a grand tale of humans\, aliens\, and microbes venturing into the outer Dao in Project Hail Mary. In the movie\, a fantastical Hollywood blockbuster\, Ryan Gosling is sent twelve light-years away to the Tau Ceti system to find out why the microbe Astrophage (“star eater”)\, which is happily supping on our Sun’s life\, is not destroying that distant star. Gosling portrays Dr. Ryland Grace\, a brilliant molecular biologist who flames out of academia\, becomes an ordinary middle-school science teacher\, and then saves all of humanity. \nAs good as the movie was\, I’ve finished the audio version of the Project Hail Mary novel by the sci-fi master Ron Weir\, and enjoyed it even more. The audio book is read by actor Ray Porter\, whose voice has an uncanny resemblance to Robert Downey\, Jr. \nBut if inside and outside are not two—ordinary mind and space are one single body–what about the mind of the inner Dao? So often in practice—at least it has been my experience—we look outside for purity\, solutions\, salvation\, when we can only really find it inside our own hearts and minds. \nTwo friends\, Yantou and Xuefeng were stuck in a small hut during a snow storm on Tortoise Mountain. Yantou sleeps while Xuefeng meditates. Xuefeng tells Yantou he should be meditating\, and Yantou replies his friend is sitting like a “clay buddha” and should get some food and rest. Xuefeng admits that his heart is not yet at rest. Yantou responds\, “Haven’t you heard it said that ‘what comes in through the gate [from outside yourself] is not the family treasure?’…You must let it flow from your own breast\, and in the future your teaching will cover heaven and earth.” Yantou’s words changed his friend’s life. \nPerhaps the most valuable lesson from the Artemis program and Project Hail Mary is that we need not catapult into outer space to try and find decency and wholeness. In a world beset with digital poisons and social cruelties\, these space tales provide messages of friendship over isolation\, sacrifice over personal gain\, knowledge over ignorance. We need to tell ourselves and each other again and again that these things matter. Hail Mary is a prayer whispered for our salvation; one perhaps worth listening to. \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-friends-9/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260412T103000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant\, Allison Atwill\, & Tess Beasley: Every Day Is a Good Day
DESCRIPTION:Atwill\, Beasley\, and Tarrant teaching on a good Sunday. \nYunmen asked the assembly\, “I don’t ask about before the time of the full moon. What about after the full moon? He himself replied\, “Every day is a good day.” \nThis koan is like a bowl; the emptiness inside is what makes it beautiful. If you don’t hold onto things\, you will see that this life now is what you were born for; your kitchen is a palace\, and your hallway is a palace\, and you move around with a blessing on your head\, a blessing that you can pass on to everyone you meet. \nJoin us for a good Sunday. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-jt-aa-tb-04-12/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260412T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260412T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 12 de abril\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-20/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: The Diamond Sutra and Being Despised
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIf you are despised by others because of evil karma from your previous lives\, about to drop into hell\, then because you are despised by others\, the evil karma of your previous life will be extinguished.  \nThe Diamond Sutra is the oldest known dated\, printed book in the world. It is dated May 11\, 868 A.D. and is a 16 foot long scroll of wood block printing. It was commissioned by a man named Wang Jie on behalf of his parents for free distribution. Buddhism fell out of favor with Emperor Wuzong\, who preferred Daoism and a Buddhist persecution occurred between 842 and 846 ending with the death of the Emperor. During that time\, it is estimated that 4\,600 monasteries and 40\,000 hermitages were destroyed and 260\,000 monks and nuns were forced to defrock. It is easy to imagine that twenty years after the persecution\, Buddhism was still looked at with suspicion\, mistrust and disapproval by many. \nThe koan is taken from the beginning of chapter 16 of the Diamond Sutra\, but leaves out the very beginning\, which goes like this: \n“If a good man or good woman who accepts\, upholds\, reads or recites this Sutra is disdained or slandered\, if they are despised or insulted…” \nPeople who resumed publicly practicing Buddhism after the persecution would have been the object of criticism and disdain by the supporters of Daoism and other indigenous Chinese spiritual traditions. The original Sanskrit version of the Diamond Sutra was written around the second century A.D. It is again easy to imagine that practitioners of the older Hindu tradition\, out of which Buddhism evolved\, felt suspicion\, mistrust and disapproval of this new upstart tradition of Buddhism. \nYou don’t have to be the subject of religious persecution to feel that people despise you. Perhaps “despise” is a strong term for it. How about feeling like people are not pleased with you\, ever feel like that? Have you noticed that the person who is least pleased with you is you? If I weren’t displeased with myself\, others’ displeasure wouldn’t stick to me. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-78/
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: It's Hard Being a Human
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Zhaozhou\, “For a long time I’ve heard about the stone bridge of Zhaozhou. But now that I’ve come\, I see only a log across the river.”\nZhaozhou said\, “You only see the log\, you just don’t see the stone bridge.”\n“What is the stone bridge like?”\n“It helps donkeys cross over\, horses cross over.”  \nI recently came across Koun Yamada’s commentary on this case: \nThe essential world is not one thing. Just as a perfectly white movie screen is covered with various images as the film progresses\, the bridge lets donkeys and horses cross. The bridge corresponds to the movie screen. Although the screen is still white\, in the essential world\, which is the stone bridge\, even the color is gone. It is across the bridge of emptiness that horses and donkeys pass. \nSince the early months of my practice\, this metaphor has made a deep impression on me. We need the empty screen of the universe as a kind of bridge and the screen needs the content of our movie—the horses and donkeys of our lives—to be fulfilled. How we appear and pass over together is a mystery. \nOnce a year\, I sign onto the intoxicating glamour\, creativity and beauty of the Oscars. It was especially fun this year because a friend had a small role in a film up for Best Picture\, an adventure he detailed a few months ago in a newspaper article. They shot some of his scenes in Japan\, which he calls home. Often self-effacing\, he mentioned to me that he took the role mostly to support his family\, but also for him\, he said\, it was a leap into the unknown. Horses cross over. \nIn the early 1980s\, I too got an invitation to appear in a Japanese movie. Through an acquaintance\, I met Yumiko\, an ekisutra actress. She needed a “foreigner boyfriend” to partner with\, so we agreed to meet on the set in a couple of weeks. The movie series Otoko wa Tsurai Yo (It’s Hard To Be a Man)\, popularly known as Tora-san (Mr. Tiger)\, is named after the n’er-do-well street merchant who always falls in love with a leading lady of the time\, then bolts just before the consummate their friendship. It was a hugely popular genre series that appealed to the Japanese working class: Tora-san was the antithesis of the new Japanese salaryman\, who increasingly felt regimented by the country’s economic miracle and estranged from traditional home and family. The series ran twice annually for 26 years and became one of the iconic franchises in Japanese film history. \nWe got to the film location\, a Western restaurant outside of Kamakura\, and briefly met Yoji Yamada\, the writer and director. We were soon handed us off to an assistant director and I got a backpack and baseball cap to wear. Tora-san and his sister’s family were having lunch. As extras\, our role was to walk by the family’s table\, bump into the kid star\, and quickly exit the restaurant to be seen in an action background through a picture window as the family continued to talk. On the second take\, I jostled the boy and said “Sumimasen! (excuse me)”\, which turned out to be the one speaking role of my movie career. Uncredited. Later\, the director called me a “natural.” Donkeys cross over too. \nYamada had known Yumiko since she was a child; her father was a well-known novelist and she grew up hanging out on the Shochiku lot picking up occasional bit parts. On the lot\, she met a young man and they decided to go to Hollywood to break into American movies. Unsuccessful\, they left the city and moved to the mountains of California. While there\, her young husband got sick\, was rushed to the hospital\, but succumbed to his illness. The doctors later diagnosed bubonic plague\, which rats first carried to California on a steamship from Asia at the turn of the last century. Though rare\, the plague continues to live in the ground squirrel population in the Western U.S. \nUtterly devastated\, Yumiko returned to Japan\, and Tora-san’s Yamada read about her tragic story in the newspaper. He called her up: “I want you to be in my next film\,” he said\, “But you need to find a foreigner as your boyfriend.” It is wonderful when we can cross over together. \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-friends-10/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260405T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260405T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T155332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260403T121155Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is ON BREAK today\, but will return on April 12th. Join us!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-jt-friends-on-break/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260405T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260405T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T161211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T161211Z
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 5 de abril\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-21/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260404T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260404T100000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260227T133125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T170043Z
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for April 4th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-39/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260402T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T173134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T173134Z
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-64/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260331T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260331T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T172026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T152735Z
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Yanyang’s One Thing
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYanyang asked Zhaozhou\, “When not a single thing is brought\, then what?”\nZhaozhou said\, “Put it down.”\nYanyang said\, “If I don’t bring a single thing\, what should I put down?”\nZhaozhou said\, “Then carry it.” \n—Book of Equanimity\, Case 57 \nThis koan is a great example of Zhaozhou’s teaching style of reflecting back to the student where they are. It reminds me of another exchange with Zhaozhou: \nA student asked Zhaozhou\,\n“For a long time I’ve heard about the stone bridge of Zhaozhou.\nBut now that I’ve come\, I see only a log across the river.”\nZhaozhou said\, “You just see the log bridge\, you don’t see the stone bridge.” \nNo yelling\, no hitting\, no questions that don’t make any sense. His teaching is short\, pithy\, down-to-earth\, and rooted in everyday life. Like a koan\, he reflects what is in front of him. \nAnother thing that comes to mind with this koan about Yanyang’s one thing is the First Truth of Buddhism\, the Truth of Suffering. If we don’t know we’re suffering\, we can’t stop suffering. Yanyang wasn’t aware of the way he was suffering by being stuck in the place of not one thing. Zhaozhou wasn’t dismissing him when he said\, “Then carry it.” He was giving the best advice he could\, though\, not thinking about giving advice\, not thinking about anything at all\, just responding. \nThen another conversation with Zhaozhou came to mind: \nA student asked\, “How should we meet difficulties when they arise?”\nZhaozhou said\, “Welcome.” \nIn telling Yanyang\, “Carry it\,” he is inviting him to welcome it\, let it in\, meet it\, turn toward it\, get to know and be intimate with it. \nWe’re told that Yanyang had an awakening at the end of his conversation with Zhaozhou. He accepted Zhaozhou’s invitation and let in the cost of clinging to that one thing of not having one thing. That’s all it takes. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-79/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T165831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T143426Z
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Muddy Water: Love and Life in the Midst of Pain
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Zhaozhou\, “Does a newborn baby have consciousness?”\nZhou replied\, “It’s like tossing a ball on rushing waters.”\nThe student went on to ask Touzi\, “What does tossing a ball on rushing waters mean?”\nTouzi said\, “Moment by moment\, non-stop flow.” \n—Blue Cliff Record\, Case 80 \nHow do we find resilience in a world of darkness and despair? How do we get our footing\, come to laugh and love in a world filled with loss and hardship? Some people make a song of it; that’s how they enter the non-stop flow. \nMuddy Waters once said\, “Exactly I fits one shoe\, and that is the blues.” His one shoe\, his one life; it fit his music just exactly so. Soon after being born to a sharecropper family in the Delta\, McKinley ‘Muddy Waters’ Morganfield’s father ran off and his mother died\, leaving his grandmother to raise him on a cotton plantation near Clarksdale\, Mississippi. \nSelf-confident\, gracious\, and commanding on stage\, Muddy was also an oft-absent father and had a half dozen children outside his marriages. Eventually he was able to bring most of them under his roof. \nA couple of mornings ago\, I was walking through downtown Clarksdale\, searching for a breakfast place. About a third of the businesses look shuttered\, though the County Courthouse-Jail and four or five juke joints looked busy. Somehow\, this small\, rather plain rural town\, an hour and a half outside of Memphis\, became the birthplace of the blues. Countless musicians have come from there including greats like B.B. King\, Sam Cooke\, Ike Turner\, John Lee Hooker\, and Muddy. \nWe found Our Grandma’s House of Pancakes. One review complained about cockroaches crawling about the floor and wall\, saying\, “I had to take a shower when I left.” Another said the food was “cooked to perfection!” My huge plate of “fully-loaded hash browns\,” served with a plastic utensil kit\, cost about five bucks. It was good; lots of bacon fat and salt. \nFor the half century beginning in the 1920s\, six million African-Americans moved north\, going against the flow of the wide river. The Great Migration was trying to escape cotton and the Jim Crow South\, hoping to find jobs in the industrial North. They brought their music with them; to St. Louis\, Chicago\, and New York. They brought their heart and soul. \nThe gypsy woman told my mother\, before I was born\nYou got a boy child’s comin’\, gon’ be a son of a gun\nHe gonna make pretty womens jump and shout\nThen the world wanna know what this all about \n~ I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Listen here) \nThe muddy waters run deep through New Orleans. Last week\, I found myself standing on the deck of a Mississippi paddle wheeler\, originally built as a casino but turned into a tour boat. Staring into the brown waters\, I could see clouds of silt endlessly billow and swirl\, with Forster’s terns and double-breasted cormorants diving for fish unseen. The captain came on the loudspeaker\, “Kids\, I already told you once: Stop running on the deck!” \nWell I wish I was a catfish\nSwimmin’ in a oh\, deep blue sea\nI would have all you good lookin’ women\nFishin’\, fishin’ after me \nSure ‘nough\, after me\nSure ‘nough\, after me\nOh ‘nough\nOh ‘nough\nSure ‘nough \n~ Rollin’ Stone (Listen 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-friends-11/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260329T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260329T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T161308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T161308Z
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 29 de marzo\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-22/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260329T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260329T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T154744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T124942Z
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SUMMARY:Deep Sit Sunday Zen: The Hazy Moon of Spring with John Tarrant\, Allison Atwill\, & Tess Beasley
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nMeditation can’t be praised enough.\nThe benefits of generosity and discipline\,\nprayer\, self-reflection\, and practice\,\nhave their source in meditation.\n\nWith what we gain from just one sitting\,\nall our crimes are wiped away.  \n—Hakuin Ekaku \nEnlightenment happens inside this life that we have. It’s not some other more satisfactory life with special conditions. So you set off! \nYou go through one archway\, and then you go through a second\, and then a third archway\, and eventually your worries fall away\, though you didn’t ask them to\, all desperation falls away and any cause of suffering in the mind is illuminated. Life after life you have been doing this and it’s not a surprise that you come eventually to the Buddha\, who is sitting on an ordinary zafu smiling\, and Buddha says\, “Yes\, that’s it\, you are doing it alright\, just do zazen like that!” and happiness comes over you. \nMeditation is also extra good if you do it together with friends. \nJoin us this Sunday as we take up the koan: \nThough you find clear waters ranging to the vast blue sky in autumn;\nHow can it compare with the hazy moon on a spring night?\nMost people want to have it pure white\,\nBut sweep as you will\, you cannot empty the mind.\n\n—Keizan (Aitken & Yamada translation) \n \n\nSchedule (ALL TIMES PACIFIC): \n9AM – 11AM – Meditation & Music with Open Temple Leaders \n11AM – 12PM – Meditation\, Poetry & Reflections with John Tarrant\, Allison Atwill\, Tess Beasley & Friends \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/3-29-deep-sit-sunday-zen/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260324T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260324T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T172100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260319T160244Z
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Uncle Mi’s White Rabbit
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen Uncle Mi went walking with Dongshan a white rabbit dashed by in front of them.\nUncle exclaimed\, “How quick!”\nDongshan asked\, “How is that?”\n“Just as if a commoner were appointed prime minister\,” said Uncle Mi.\n“Though you are old and great\, you still say things like that!” replied Dongshan.\n“What would you say?” asked Uncle Mi.\n“Generations of nobility\, temporarily fallen into poverty\,” said Dongshan \nThis koan reminded me of another koan involving Uncle Mi and Dongshan which goes like this: \nUncle Mi was mending clothes when Dongshan asked\, “What are you doing?”\n“Mending\,” said Uncle Mi.\n“How is it going?” asked Dongshan.\n“One stitch follows another\,” said Uncle Mi.\n“We’ve been traveling together for twenty years and that’s all you have to say?” said Dongshan. “How can you be so clueless?”\n“How do you mend\, then?” asked Uncle Mi.\n“With each stitch the whole earth is spewing flames\,” said Dongshan. \nAnd then another koan involving Uncle Mi and Dongshan came along: \nWhen Dongshan was crossing a river with Uncle Mi\, he asked\, “How does one cross a river?”\n“Don’t get your feet wet\,’ said Uncle Mi.\nAt your venerable age\, how can you say such a thing!” said Dongshan.\n“How do you cross a river?” asked Uncle Mi.\n“Feet don’t get wet\,” replied Dongshan. \nCan you feel how these koans are the same? Can you feel how they are different? Can you find this in your life? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-80/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T165911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260313T121142Z
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on March 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
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-friends-12/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260322T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260322T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T155322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T190303Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant\, Allison Atwill & Tess Beasley: Things Are Not As They Appear\, Nor Are They Otherwise
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIn any given moment\, we think we know what’s what\, but then there’s this other thing happening\, the big lumbering aurochs that runs the universe is just ambling along beneath the surface. \nDiscrepancies appear between our ideas and experience\, uncertainty seeps in\, which is far more interesting. \nYou’re supposed to be happy but you feel sick\, or you laugh when you’re sad. It’s why buying gizmos does not console us\, because the big lumbering aurochs doesn’t care about gizmos. \nAwakening is about befriending the aurochs\, even praising it. \nJoin us Sunday as we explore a famous line from the Lankavatara Sutra: \nThings are not as they appear\, nor are they otherwise. \n—Tess Beasley \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends-8/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260322T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260322T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T161343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T161343Z
UID:10002297-1774171800-1774179000@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 22 de marzo\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-23/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260321T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260321T100000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260227T133035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260313T125153Z
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for March 21st here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-38/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260319T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260319T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-65/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260317T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260317T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Longtan\, Renowned Far and Wide – Gateless Barrier 28
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDeshan visited Longtan and questioned him sincerely far into the night.\nIt grew late and Longtan said\, “Why don’t you retire?”\nDeshan made his bows and lifted the blinds to withdraw but was met by darkness.\nTurning back he said\, “It is dark outside.” \nLongtan lit a paper candle and handed it to Deshan.\nDeshan was about to take it when Longtan blew it out.\nAt this\, Deshan had a sudden realization and made bows.\nLongtan said\, “What truth did you discern?”\nDeshan said\, “From now on I will not doubt the words of an old priest who is renowned everywhere under the sun.” \nThe next day Longtan took the high seat before his assembly and said\, “I see a brave fellow among you monks. His fangs are like a sword-tree. His mouth is like a blood-bowl. Give him a blow and he won’t turn his head. Someday he will climb the highest peak and establish our Way there.” \nDeshan brought his notes on the Diamond Sutra before the Dharma Hall and held up a torch\, saying\, “Even though you have exhausted the abstruse doctrines\, it is like placing a hair in vast space. Even though you have learned all the secrets of the world\, it is like letting a single drop of water fall into an enormous valley.” And he burned up all his notes. Then\, making his bows\, he took leave of his teacher. \nWumen’s comment on this case feels like it should be part of the case. It goes like This: \nBefore Deshan crossed the barrier from his native province\, his mind burned and his mouth sputtered. Full of arrogance\, he went south to exterminate the doctrine of a special transmission outside the sutras. When he reached the road to Li-chou\, he sought to buy refreshments from an old woman. \nThe old woman said\, “Your Reverence\, what sort of literature do you have there in your cart?”\nDeshan said\, “Notes and commentaries on the Diamond Sutra.”\nThe old woman said\, “I hear the Diamond Sutra says\, ‘Past mind cannot be grasped\, present mind cannot be grasped\, future mind cannot be grasped.’ Which mind does Your Reverence intend to refresh?”\n\nDeshan was dumbfounded and unable to answer.\nHe did not expire completely under her words\, however\, but asked\, “Is there a teacher of Zen Buddhism in this neighborhood?”\nThe old woman said\,“The priest Longtan is about half a mile from here.” \nArriving at Longtan’s place\, Deshan was utterly defeated. His earlier words certainly did not match his later ones. Longtan disgraced himself in his compassion for his son. Finding a bit of a live coal in the other\, he took up muddy water and drenched him\, destroying everything at once. \nViewing the matter dispassionately\, you can see it was all a farce. \nLast week we spent time with the eighty-year-old Deshan. This week we’re looking back at the younger Deshan\, perhaps about forty years old. At that time\, he very much thought he knew the last word of Zen and was on a campaign to teach others what it was and what it wasn’t. It’s nice to have an opportunity to appreciate how the practice keeps on going and how different the older\, more mature Deshan was than his younger self. \nBut what does Wumen mean when he says\, “Longtan disgraced himself in his compassion for his son.”? What was the muddy water that he drenched Deshan with? How is it a farce? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-81/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T170030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260313T121126Z
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on March 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
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-friends-14/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260315T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260315T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T155312Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is ON BREAK today\, and will return on March 22nd. We hope you join us then!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends-7/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260315T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260315T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T062010
CREATED:20260217T161426Z
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 15 de marzo\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-24/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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