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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Chicken in a Phoenix Nest
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nLuopu paid a formal visit to Jiashan. He didn’t bow but stood right in front of him.\nJiashan said\, “A chicken roosting in a phoenix nest—it’s not the same species. Go away.”\nLuopu said\, “I have come from far away because of your reputation. Please welcome me this once.”\nJiashan said\, “There is no you in front of me\, and there is no me here.”\nLuopu then roared.\nJiashan said\, “Stop\, stop! Now don’t be so careless. Clouds and the moon are the same. Valleys and mountains are different. You can cut out the tongues of everyone on earth\, but how can you teach a tongueless person to speak?”\nLuopu was speechless.\nThen Jiashan hit him\, and Luopu bowed deeply. \n—Luopu’s Bow\, Book of Serenity Case 35 \nAs with Sansheng’s golden scales\, a couple of koans back\, in this koan we have another dharma heir of Linji traveling around deepening their practice after receiving transmission. It also reminds me of Magu presenting himself to two teachers after his awakening experience\, and the way Magu ignored standard protocol and just stood in front of the teachers. \nBut there is a prequel to this koan about Luopu and Jiashan. After receiving transmission from Linji\, we are told: \n“Luopu traveled for a year\, and then came to Mt. Jia\, where he built a hut and stayed. He remained there for a year without visiting Jiashan’s monastery on the same mountain. Jiashan wrote a letter and instructed a monk to take it to Luopu. Luopu received the letter\, then went back and sat down without reading it. He then extended his hand to the monk as if to say\, “Do you have something else?” When the monk didn’t answer\, Luopu hit him and said\, “Go back and tell your teacher about this.” The monk reported to Jiashan about what had happened. Jiashan said\, “If he opens the letter\, then he’ll come here within three days. If he doesn’t open it\, then no one can save him.”          \nSo this koan makes even less sense considering Jiashan had invited Luopu to come in the first place. Is that any way to treat a guest that you have invited\, accusing them of being a chicken imitating a phoenix? Is that any way for a guest to treat their host\, not bowing as would be proper and polite? Maybe Luopu did not open the letter and came anyway. Would he have saved himself that way? \nI find this koan and Sansheng’s golden fish and even Magu circling the teacher three times\, to be reminders that there is always more. There is no end\, no goal\, no final resting place; there is just the ongoing inquiry into “What is this?” \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-57/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: The Space Between
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWuzu Fayan said\, “If you meet a man on the path who has accomplished the Way\, do not greet him with words or silence. Tell me\, how will you greet him?”\n \n—Gateless Gate Case 36 \nThrough his years of teaching\, Wuzu has served as a guide entering the space between words and silence. This is the place where we might discover “before thinking good or evil.” There are no protective barriers here—no walls\, no safety. It is just this. \nWe have been visiting with Song Era Chan masters these past weeks. \nIn ancient China there were three periods of Zen\, the Legendary period (5th–8th c.)\, when the likes of half-historical and partly-mythical Bodhidharma and Huineng walked the earth. Then we have the Classical period (8th–10th c.)\, the time of Mazu\, Baizhang\, Huangbo\, Linji\, Dongshan and the other ancients we know from koan stories. Finally\, the Literary period (10th–13th c.)\, the era of the Song greats: Dahui\, Yuanwu\, and Wuzu in China\, and Hongzhi\, Wumen\, and Dogen in Japan. \nWuzu Fayan entered the monastery at thirty-five years old\, rather late\, back in the day. He was said to be unassuming and plain-spoken\, which was in great contrast to his successors\, ‘son’ Yuanwu and his ‘grandson’ Dahui\, both literary firebrands. \nZen is said to be beyond scriptures and words. But what do we say upon hearing of a friend’s grave illness? How do you respond when you get notice you’ve been laid off? Or when your grandchild is born? Are those moments beyond silence and speech? They kind of are. “And yet\, and yet\,” writes Issa\, “the dewdrop world is the dewdrop world.” Words themselves are that dewdrop world. \nWuzu once told a story about going to the marketplace\, where\, he saw a puppet show for the first time. Fascinated\, he went in for a closer look: The puppets appeared to be moving around on their own\, walking and sitting down with dynamic arms and legs. Wuzu could see the puppeteer behind the blue curtain. \nHe called out\, “Sir! What is your name?”\nThe puppeteer responded\, “Honored priest\, just watch the show. Why ask for names?” Wuzu told his monks\, “Brothers\, when I heard him say this\, I had not a single word in response\, nor a single idea to espouse\,” adding\, “Can any of you say something in my place?” \nThe koans credited to Wuzu are often spare: \nFor example\, it’s just like a water buffalo passing through a latticed window. Her head\, horns\, and four legs have passed through. Why is it that her tail can’t pass through? \nEven Śākyamuni and Maitreya are servants of that one. Tell me\, who is the one? \nThe girl Qian and her true soul were separated. Which is the true Qian? \nWhen Wuzu was ill and failing\, he went to the hall and bade the monks farewell\, saying “Zhaozhou had some final words. Do you remember them? Let’s see if you can recite them.” When no one responded\, Wuzu recited Zhou’s words: \nFortune few among the thousand\,\nBut one has countless pains and sorrows. \nThen Wuzu said\, “Take care\,” and passed away that night. \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-72/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: On the Hundred Grass Tips\, the Great Masters' Meaning
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nSometimes practice comes easily … the bright moon seems to follow us everywhere we go\, the night forest draws near with its strange creatures and ancient trees\, and without effort\, we find ourselves at home wherever we are. \nBut other times practice is gruelling … we can barely tolerate the world\, our body\, our mind; everything is wrong or tangled or dull\, and though we bring ourselves to the cushion\, or try\, the way seems wholly lost or out of reach. \nWhat to make of this? One of the great old families in our tradition\, the Pangs\, found themselves exploring this quandary one day when someone asked about the nature of practice. \n“Difficult\, difficult\,” said the father; “like trying to scatter ten measures of sesame seed all over a tree.” \nBut his wife disagreed. \n“Easy\, easy\,” she said; “like touching your feet to the ground when you get out of bed.” \n“Neither difficult nor easy\,” offered their daughter\, opening the territory a little wider; “on the hundred grass tips\, the great Masters’ meaning.” \nWhat if it’s impossible to be outside the field of awakening? \nThis Sunday we’ll take up with the Pangs and their inescapable joy. Join us. \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-john-tarrant-friends-71/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 5 de octubre\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-meditacion-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-15/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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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 \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for October 4th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-28/
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:20251002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251002T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Turning Over the Kettle
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-53/
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:20250930T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T070132
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: After Enlightenment\, the Laundry
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFengxue said\, “If you raise a speck of dust\, the world flourishes. If you don’t raise a speck of dust\, the world perishes.”\n \n—Fengxue’s Speck of Dust\, Book of Serenity Case 34 \nThis is the third koan in a row that has struck me as being about stepping off the hundred-foot pole. I’m not sure if Wansong kept the same order of koans as in the original collection by Hongzhi\, or not. It seems like one or the other of them put these three together to make a point about the necessity of coming forth into the world and not staying in the vastness. \n“Abiding nowhere the mind comes forth\,” says the Diamond Sutra. It comes forth in the world that the Hermit of Lotus Blossom Peak walked into with her staff across her shoulders. The world in which\, as Yangshan said\, “it is enough for the stage of being human.” The world in which Xuefeng said that he was old\, as we all get old\, and that he was busy\, as we are all busy. \nIt reminds me of when Shitou checked in on his student Layman Pang about his practice and Pang’s response was\, “How miraculous and wondrous! Chopping wood and carrying water.” Going shopping\, cooking dinner. There is a Zen proverb that goes\, “After enlightenment\, the laundry.” \nThat’s all for now\, I’ve got to go to feed the cats. \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-58/
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:20250929T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250929T190000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Duck Legs Are Naturally Short
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA crane’s legs are naturally long and a duck’s legs are naturally short.\nA pine tree is naturally tall and straight\, while brambles are naturally crooked.\nGeese are white\, crows are black.\nEverything is manifested in this manner…\nDo you have it? Do you have it?” \n—Yuanwu Keqin\, from The Record of Foguo \nYuanwu Keqin (Perfect Enlightenment) along with his teacher Wuzu Fayan and his student Dahui Zonggao\, formed a triad in the Linji School koan tradition in 12th-century China that remains an abiding foundation in Chan-Zen. Yuanwu is best known for his commentary on the 100-case collection of koans and verses called The Blue Cliff Record (pub. 1128). The Blue Cliff Record\, named for the temple at the Blue Cliff where Yuanwu gave lectures\, is the most famous Chan koan collection of all time\, and is used around the world in zendos today. \nYuanwu’s poetry can be extraordinarily beautiful\, like his preface to The Blue Cliff Record: \nBoundless wind and moon—the eye within eyes\nInexhaustible heaven and earth—the light beyond the light\nKnock on any door—there is one who will answer \nAcceptance is a key feature of Zen practice. \nAccepting that cranes have long legs and ducks short\, accepting the naturalness of a world in which pine trees are tall and brambles crooked. And what of us? Do we have it? We too are tall or short\, straight or gay\, progressive or conservative. Do we need to make any of that wrong? Or right? The universe does neither—John Tarrant says the universe has opinions similar to a microwave oven: It takes in everything. \nIn another passage\, Yuanwu asks\, “Just when it’s like this\, what is it?” Indeed\, what is it? Who am I? What am I? To ask the question is a good beginning. \nAt the end of his life\, Yuanwu’s followers asked him to write a poem. He sat up straight\, composed the following\, and passed: \nMy work slipped off into the night\nFor you no pretty song took flight\nThe hour is here\, I must be away\nFare you well\, take care alright! \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-68/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250928T103000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Mystery & Awakening
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t worry\, it will all work out even if we don’t know what’s going to happen. \nJoin us! It’s always such fun. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-mystery-awakening/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20250928T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20250928T113000
DTSTAMP:20260429T070132
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 28 de septiembre\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-meditacion-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-16/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250923T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250923T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Gotten Defensive Lately?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSansheng asked Xuefeng\, “I’m the Golden Scales who has passed through the net\, but I still haven’t figured out what to eat.”\nXuefeng said\, “I’ll wait for you to come out of the net and then I’ll tell you.”\n“A spiritual friend to 1500 people but you’re still not inside the world of the koans.”\n“Well\, I’m old\, and as head of the temple I have a lot on my mind.” \n—Sansheng’s Golden Scales\, Book of Serenity Case 33 \nThe first thing coming along as I hung out with this koan was Book of Serenity Case 16 with Magu\, Changqing\, and Nanquan. In that koan\, as in this one\, Magu is presenting himself to a teacher for confirmation of his awakening. Magu gets defensive when Nanquan says “Wrong!” to his presentation. He was still trapped in the net. Sansheng also seems to get defensive when Xuefeng implies that he is still in the net. \nIt’s interesting that the commentaries about this koan with Sansheng consider Sansheng and Xuefeng to be equals and that their conversation was a draw: no one lost\, no one won. Sansheng was known to be the sole dharma heir of Linji\, and perhaps he was given the benefit of the doubt that was not given to Magu. \nFor me\, what is alive in the koan is the issue of becoming defensive or not. \nRecently I was contacted by another teacher whose former student is currently working with me. They were concerned about a recent conversation they had had with this student and wanted to check in with me about it. After listening to their concerns\, I found that my impression of the student was different than theirs and I noticed a lack of defensiveness in my response\, that I appreciated. I don’t like conflict and it was interesting to notice that though our opinions differed\, it didn’t feel like a conflict\, and that was nice. \nMaybe that’s what the commentators on this koan were picking up on in the conversation between Xuefeng and Sansheng. \nGotten defensive lately? Or not? \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
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-59/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250922T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250922T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is on break for Pacific Zen Luminaries this evening\, but will return on September 29th. 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-on-break-10/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:PACIFIC ZEN LUMINARIES: Jon Joseph in Conversation with Translator Thomas Yuho Kirchner
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nThomas Yuho Kirchner\, a Zen monk of the Rinzai School in Japan\, is the widely respected translator of Zen koan classics\, including The Record of Linji\, Entangling Vines\, and Muso Soseki: Dialogs in a Dream. \nHe joins host Jon Joseph to discuss Dahui’s Letters. These letters are the critical writings of Dahui Zhonggao\, considered the father of koan meditation and the leading figure of the Linji Chan-Zen School in 12th c. China. The letters are timeless in that they provide valuable lessons on koan practice for modern–day meditators. \nKirchner was born in Baltimore\, Maryland\, in 1949. He went to Japan in 1969 to attend Waseda University in Tokyo for a year\, after which he remained in Japan to study Buddhism. He spent three years training under Yamada Mumon as a lay monk at Shofuku-ji before receiving ordination in 1974. Following ordination he practiced under Minato Sodo Roshi at Kencho-ji in Kamakura and Kennin-ji in Kyoto. Following graduate studies in Buddhism at Otani University he worked at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture in Nagoya and subsequently at the Hanazono University International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism. He presently lives at Tenryu-ji in Arashiyama\, Kyoto. \nOn more than a half century of Zen practice\, he says\, “I have a deep sense that this is a really\, really meaningful experience. It has given me a compass for my life. With time\, I will be able to face death with peace of mind.” \nSource: Wisdom Publications \nOn Entangling Vines:  \n“A wonderful book\, a book to take if you are planning to be shipwrecked on a desert island; it is the book I open every day\, and teach from every day. It is surprising\, lucid\, scholarly\, alive\, and unassuming\, and it goes deep.” \n—John Tarrant\, Director of The Pacific Zen Institute and author of Bring Me the Rhinoceros and Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life.  \nOn The Record of Linji:\n\n“A masterpiece of scholarship not only on Linji Chan\, but also on Chinese Buddhist language and history―the annotations\, which constitute almost two–thirds of the book\, explain in astonishing detail the meanings\, references\, and grammar of each line of text.” \n―Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly \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/luminaries-kirchner-sept-2025/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: In the Gaps\, the Whole Universe
DESCRIPTION:With empty hands I pick up the hoe.\nAs I walk\, I ride the water buffalo.\nAs I cross the bridge\, the bridge flows\, the water is still. \n—Mahasattva Fu \n\nIt’s a promising moment when what have been our perfectly good delusions begin to wear out. \nSuddenly we can’t go along with what we once did\, or can’t convince ourselves of the same reasons. Or maybe less suddenly\, the old story we’ve carried just doesn’t quite hold together anymore\, and a gap appears. This is the same gap that ushers in awakening. \nBut the trick is when the old car we’ve been tooling around in starts to sputter\, not to just tape the fender or drag the engine into the shop. The trick is to open to a new way of moving. \nKoans relish and potentiate these gaps as moments the whole vast universe tucked inside each moment can appear. \n—Tess Beasley \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends-74/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20250921T113000
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 21 de septiembre\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-meditacion-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-17/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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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 \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for September 20th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-29/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Compassion: It’s like Reaching for a Pillow in the Night
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-54/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Throw On Some Clothes!
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYangshan asked a student\, “Where were you born?”\nThe student said\, “I’m from Yu province.”\n“Do you think about that place?”\n“I’m always thinking about it.”\n\n“That which is able to think is mind. What is thought about is the environment. Within the environment are mountains\, rivers and the great earth\, towers\, terraces\, pavilions\, people\, animals and all kinds of other things. But turn your thought inward to the mind that thinks. Are there lots of things there?”\n\n“When I reach that place inside\, I don’t see anything there.”\n“That’s right when you are at the stage of faith\, but it’s not yet enough for the stage of being human.”\n“Do you have anything else to point out or not?”\n\n“Whether I have something else or not isn’t the issue. When you look inside now\, you see only an undifferentiated darkness. But move around and throw on some clothes and notice yourself doing that.”  \n—Book of Serenity Case 32 \nYangshan saying\, “…but it’s not yet enough for the stage of being human\,” immediately brought in Shishuang’s “Take a step from a 100-foot pole\,” as well as the Hermit of Lotus Blossom Peak’s “It has no power for the way.” \nI appreciate Yangshan’s example of moving around and throwing on some clothes and noticing yourself doing that. Shishuang doesn’t tell us how to take a step off the 100-foot pole; there are no helpful hints. The hermit of Lotus Blossom Peak doesn’t tell us anything about the journey into the 10\,000 peaks. \nYangshan\, together with his teacher Guishan\, founded the Guiyang School: the first of the five schools of Chan. Besides being noted for using esoteric symbols\, his school is also noted for having been a gentler\, kinder style of practicing Chan—not so much yelling or hitting. Yangshan tells us what to do. Nanquan said that ordinary mind is the way; Yangshan is showing us ordinary mind. \nWhat do you notice as you put on your clothes and move around? \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-60/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Dahui Breaks Through
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nBeing and non-being are like vines clinging to a tree.\nIf suddenly the tree falls and the vines wither\, where do being and non-being go?\n\n —Book of Serenity Case 87\n\nEvery day Dahui went to Yuanwu Keqin for instruction\, but all Yuanwu would say is “Being and non-being are like vines clinging to a tree.” Whenever Dahui opened his mouth to respond\, Yuanwu would cut him off\, saying “That’s no good!”\n\nOne day Dahui went to the master and said\, ”I heard that you once asked your teacher Wuzu about being and non-being. Do you remember the master’s reply?” In answer\, Yuanwu only laughed. Dahui said\, “Since you asked in front of the assembly\, surely there’s no reason not to tell me Wuzu’s reply.”\n\nYuanwu then said\, “When I asked about the statement ’being and non-being are like vines clinging to a tree\,’ Wuzu replied\, ‘Try to describe it and it cannot be described; try to portray it and it cannot be portrayed.’  When I asked\, ‘What if the tree suddenly falls and the vines whither?’ Wuzu said\,’They come down together.’” \nDahui suddenly understood.\n\nDahui Zonggao (1089-1163) is considered one of the greatest Chan masters from the Song Dynasty\, a period when Chan had a profound influence on religious and political life in China\, the world’s largest nation at time. He is best known for promoting meditation using huatou (word head) koan fragments as a way to help students break through to kensho. \nDahui was also one of the most controversial teachers of the time. When he found that monks were over-intellectualizing his teacher Yuanwu’s koan collection\, The Blue Cliff Record\, he ordered all copies gathered up and destroyed. When the political faction his students were aligned with fell out of favor\, Dahui was defrocked and banished by the imperial court for fourteen years\, though he continued to teach and write. \nDahui’s Letters are perhaps best known for their harsh criticism of “silent illumination\,” a purportedly “quietistic” form of meditation practiced in the Caodong (Soto) School. Ironically\, it was a leading Caodong teacher\, Hongzhi Zhenjue\n(compiler of the koan collection The Book of Serenity)\, who helped Dahui return from exile and regain an abbot position at a leading monastery. \nAs he was dying\, Dahui wrote this poem: \nBirth is just so.\nDeath is just so.\nSo\, as for composing a verse\,\nWhy does it matter? \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-67/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: The Courage to Have a Practice
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIt’s no small thing to open ourselves to the full spectrum of the universe unfolding\, otherwise known as this very heart–mind. Any given moment might bring trembling\, rending\, deep uncertainty\, or inexplicable joy. Sometimes\, strangely\, it’s the joy and freedom we hold off most. \nBut in taking up a practice we slowly come to recognize all that’s on offer if we don’t blow past things or turn away\, or if we don’t somehow try to make life more reasonable than it actually is. \nShenshan was mending clothes when Dongshan asked\, “What are you doing?”\n“Mending\,” said Shenshan.\n“How is it going?” asked Dongshan.\n“One stitch follows another\,” said Shenshan.\n“We’ve been traveling together for twenty years and that’s all you have to say?” said Dongshan. “How can you be so clueless?”\n“How do you mend\, then?”\n“With each stitch the whole earth is spewing flames.” \nAnother translation of this exchange says\, “with each stitch\, the earth crumbles\,” pointing just the same toward how we can’t hold a tether to reach this moment from the last\, but we find ourselves undeniably carried along anyway. \nJoin us Sunday for meditation\, koans\, and companions. We’ll be lucky enough to have music\, too. \n—Tess Beasley \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends-75/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 14 de septiembre\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-meditacion-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-18/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250909T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250909T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: The Intersectionality of Pillars
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunmen said\, “An old Buddha and a pillar intersect with each other.\nWhat number of activity is this?\nHe spoke in their place\,”Clouds rise on South Mountain.\nRain falls on North Mountain.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 31 \nThe first thing to appear alongside this koan was from our PZI Miscellaneous Collection: \nHide in a pillar. \nThen I wondered about the difference between “hide” and “intersect.” There are various translations of the character for “intersect\,” like: \nmerge\nhas intercourse with\nembrace\nmingle\ncross\nhave relations with\ndoes it with\n\nI noticed the translation “merge” felt close to “hide” and different from the others. The other translations didn’t feel as complete as “merge” and “hide.” I looked up the character and found that it was used to describe the intersection of two roads\, and I noticed how that intersection felt close to “hide.” \nThe translation “embrace” reminded me of the koan about Qian and her spirit being separated and how\, at the end of the story\, the two Qians embrace and become one\, and how that feels close to “hide.” \nYunmen’s response about clouds and rain and the association to sexual union felt like that embrace of the two Qians. That moment when there is only one\, and then not even one. \nWhat number of activity is that? \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-61/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Dreams in the Dark\, Dark and Dim
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunmen taught\, “Everybody has a light inside\, but sometimes it appears dark\, dark and dim. What is this light that everybody has?” \nI can tell when I’m beginning to fall asleep; perhaps you can too. As I watch my thoughts drift and kind of hop a track\, they begin to stretch normal distances and time in all possible directions. Objects and interactions gain in permeability as they break away from ordinary thoughts and concerns. We are now in the dream world\, which is dark and dim\, but which also shines with its own light. \nTraveling in ancient China\, I encountered a Chan monk on the road who offered to be my guide. Together we visited three large temples\, each honoring a different teacher: Deshan\, Dongshan\, Yunmen. Each temple had its own flavor\, but all radiated a warm golden color with hundreds of monks in residence embodying a quiet joy as they went about their activities. I chose to stay at Yunmen’s Cloud Gate temple. \nYunmen’s has always been my favorite among the Five Chan Schools. In some ways the dream was an affirmation of that. Mostly\, I felt welcome and included. \nIt so happened that this morning I was reviewing Muso Soseki’s Dialogues in a Dream (2015)\, a series of letters written by the famous fifteenth century Japanese Zen master\, beautifully translated by Thomas Yuho Kirchner. \nIn it is an account of how Muso got his dharma name. Practicing as a monk in the Tendai and Shingon schools\, the nineteen-year-old Muso was uncertain of his future course of study and decided to enter a hundred-day solitary retreat. \nThree days before the end of retreat\, Muso had dream in which he too met a monk-guide at a temple called “Shushan.” The two went on to a second temple\, called “Shitou.” Both are famous Tang era teachers. \nAt the second temple\, the two travelers met an old priest. The guide addressed the priest: “This monk (Muso) has traveled here in search of a sacred image. Please\, Reverend\, be so kind as to present him with one.” \nAt that\, the old priest handed Muso a scroll\, which he unrolled and found to be a painting of Bodhidharma. He rolled up the scroll\, put it in his sleeve\, and woke from the dream. Muso felt the dream was leading him to Zen\, and he changed his dharma name to incorporate both the dream and the two masters: Muso (dream-window) Soseki (rough-stone). \nDreams are a mystery\, and perhaps we can only feel our way into them; full understanding being neither possible nor necessary. \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-66/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Sickness & Medicine Correspond
DESCRIPTION:Sickness and medicine are in accord with each other.\nThe whole world is medicine.\nWhat am I? \n—Yunmen \nIt is well known that this life is not a place that we can stay long. We are guests in the world\, and what is happening to us in the darkness is that our character is transforming. A blade of grass\, the sound of a truck\, the tsst! tsst! of a hummingbird\, everything is included. \nSickness and medicine correspond with each other… \nDear Sickness\,\nI’m wondering how you are. \nYour friend\, Medicine. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-76/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:Domingo Meditación con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 7 de septiembre\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-meditacion-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-19/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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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 \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for September 6th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-30/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: A Hidden Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSabbath and Meditation — Opening to What is Here \nLet’s call it a vacation\, a break\, or maybe even a Sabbath time. It’s a chance to escape the usual week-end and week-out routine I follow the rest of the year. You know\, the one where I’m busy writing the newsletter\, packing the truck with statues and cushions\, my focus on our Thursday Bluegrass Zen meeting in Lexington. Now at the end of my time away\, I’d like to call it Sabbath time. \nSabbath \nIn Abrahamic religions\, Sabbath is a designated day of rest\, marking the 7th day of creation when God took a rest from the other six days of creation. Before time\, God was busy\, you know\, the spirit over the waters\, the light\, the dark\, the separation of the land from the water\, plants\, animals\, human beings. It had been a busy few days\, so it was time for a rest. Likewise it was determined over years of tradition\, that such a day of rest might be good for the community as well. And so\, Shabbat. Sabbath. This day of rest became so important to the Hebrew people\, that its observance became a cornerstone for Jewish law and practice. \nSabbath is a time when activity stops. As labor ceases\, so do its fruits. I cannot point to anything and attach to it as mine. Labor stops and no attainment. From this place\, the heart at rest\, it is possible to notice the life all around and through\, to notice the crow call\, the wind in the pine branches\, the yellows of the sunflowers as they track the sun making its course through the day. Too\, it is a time to notice the interior textures of life as they open\, flow and cascade\, a rumble and thrum\, thoughts and feelings\, a sense of opening before and beyond time. Inside\, outside\, and in between fade and there is “just this.” Sabbath opens time within time\, one taste\, eternity (or as those mystics of the Abrahamic faiths might call it\, God)\, the wholeness hidden in plain sight\, moment by moment. Thomas Merton writes\, in his poem\, Hagia Sophia (wisdom of God)\, a later poem of his influenced by his encounter with DT Suzuki and Rinzai Zen: \nThere is in all visible things an invisible fecundity\, a dimmed light\, a meek namelessness\, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious Unity and Integrity is Wisdom\, the Mother of all\, Natura naturans. There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity\, a silence that is a fount of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being\, welcoming me tenderly\, saluting me with indescribable humility. This is at once my own being\, my own nature\, and the Gift of my Creator’s Thought and Art within me\, speaking as Hagia Sophia\, speaking as my sister\, Wisdom. \nIn this I find the practice of Sabbath\, a noticing and welcoming of the wordless gentle as it rises up in all things\, pointing and participating in life\, in the Dao or if you prefer\, the wisdom of God. Also\, at least for me\, this is the practice of zazen\, seated meditation\, an alertness and a noticing of what is here—right down to the bones. \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-55/
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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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Will It Be Destroyed or Not?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Dasui\,\n“In the kalpa fire when the universe is completely destroyed\, I’m still wondering\, is there something that won’t be destroyed?”\nDasui said\, “It will be destroyed.”\n“It will follow along with everything else?”\nDasui said\, “It will follow along with everything else.” \nThen the student asked Longji\,\n“In the kalpa fire when the universe is completely destroyed\, I’m still wondering\, is there something that won’t be destroyed?”\nLongji\, replied\, “It won’t be destroyed.”\n“Why not?”\n“Because it’s the same as the universe.” \n–Book of Serenity Case 30 \nAs I spend time with this koan\, I find myself remembering when I began my meditation practice with the Tibetans. How they emphasized the certainty of our death and the uncertainty of when it would happen. There was a meditation that involved visualizing yourself on a train hurtling down the rails towards a bridge that had been washed out. We were told that if we didn’t get scared we weren’t doing it right. \nSounds like Dasui’s “It will be destroyed.” \nWe were also encouraged to meditate as we fell asleep\, as we were told the process of falling asleep is the same as that of dying\, and becoming familiar with it would help us in the transition. \nThat sounds like Longji’s “It won’t be destroyed.” \nAs I understood it\, for the Tibetans\, the best thing we could hope for would be a human rebirth in our next life\, during which we might wake up to the reality of the world. \nWhen the Buddha was asked how long the length of a human life is\, his response was\, “One thought-moment.” (And that there are sixty-four thought-moments in the snap of a finger.) \nMoment after moment we are presented with the opportunity to become familiar with our death: the death of who we think we are\, the death of what we think is right or wrong\, the death of the way we think things are. Being consumed by the kalpa fire moment after moment opens the possibility of appreciating Longji’s “It is not destroyed.” \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-62/
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:20250901T180000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on September 8th. 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-on-break-11/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250831T103000
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is on break through August\, but will return on September 7th. Join us!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-65/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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