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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250918T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250916T180000
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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
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250908T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250907T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250907T120000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20250907T113000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250904T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250904T173000
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250901T193000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250831T120000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20250831T113000
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SUMMARY:Domingo Meditación con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 31 de agosto\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-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250826T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Fengxue's Iron Ox
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFengxue taught\, “When the ancestors make an impression on your mind\, it’s like the working of the Iron Ox. When the impression goes away\, it remains working. If the impression stays\, its working is ruined. Making an impression and not making an impression can both be right only if the impression doesn’t go away and doesn’t stay.” \nAccording to a footnote I have for this koan\, the “Iron Ox” referred to was placed in China’s Yellow River to regulate its flow and minimize damage from flooding. I must admit I’ve never quite understood how that worked\, so when I ran into an alternate possibility of imagining this koan\, I was interested. \nAs it turns out\, there really was an iron ox—originally there were eight of them\, four on each side of the river. They were part of the earliest and longest floating bridge on the Yellow River\, estimated to have been built around 724 A.D. Each ox weighed 70 tons\, was 7 feet high\, 9 feet long\, and 6 feet wide. Each ox had six iron pillars attached at the bottom\, which were 30 feet long and 2 feet in diameter. The pillars were attached at a 45-degree angle\, opening to the front of the ox in such a way so that when the pillars were buried into the ground\, they would prevent the ox from moving due to the pull of the cables supporting the bridge that were wrapped around the ox. After 500 years\, the bridge was destroyed during a war\, but the ox remained on the riverbanks. \nThe I Ching says\, ”The ox is like kun—kun is the earth\, and the earth is better than water.” So\, supported by what the I Ching says about the nature of the ox\, the iron ox on the riverbanks were considered a deterrent to flooding of the Yellow River. \nThough they were not buried at the bottom of the river\, the action of the Iron Ox supporting the bridge was the same. They didn’t move; that was their action: not moving. \nFengxue’s description of the action of the Iron Ox sounds like advice on how to hang out with a koan. When a koan makes an impression on your mind\, don’t move\, don’t do anything\, just let it be. Reminds me of another koan that asks\, “How is it that a fully awakened person cannot lift up their leg\, or say something without moving their lips or tongue?” \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-53/
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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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Our Own Perfect Awakening
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nAll buddhas of the past\, present and future\nalso take refuge in prajñaparamita (perfection of wisdom)\nrealizing unexcelled\, perfect enlightenment … \n—Excerpt from The Heart Sutra \nIn a recent article in The New Yorker\, called “Enemy of the Good; The Pain of Perfection\,” Leslie Jamison writes about the growing trend of perfectionism\, not as a constructive aspiration\, but as pathology. That perfectionism might be some form of admirable striving is misguided\, says Gordon Flett\, a clinical psychologist who has co-authored many studies on the subject. “I can’t stand it when people talk about perfectionism as something positive\,” he says\, “they don’t realize the deep human toll.” \nI considered the notion of striving for “perfection” in our Zen practice. There it is in the Heart Sutra\, the foundational sutra of our school: with all our being we work to achieve perfect wisdom. To do that\, we get up early\, sit with a straight back\, keep nose vertical and eyes horizontal\, and soak into our koan\, day and night. \nAs it is for students\, so it is for teachers. How do I be a perfect teacher? Do I try to go toward it\, or not? As Nanquan said\, ”If you go toward it\, you go against it.” To which Zhaozhou remarked\,“If I don’t go toward it\, then how do I know it is the true Way?” \nKoshin Paley Ellison writes in his book\, Untangled: “I often tell my students\, ‘I will disappoint you!’ And then I like to say\, ‘And I’m committed to being with you in the disappointment.’ This makes for a good beginning. We need to find a good enough teacher\, we need to find a good enough community\, which is one where you can be dirty potatoes in a barrel [rubbing up against each other to get clean].” \nFlett found that the antidote for perfectionists was for them to realize that their lives mattered. He calls it “the psychology of mattering.” It is the mattering of our own unique jewel\, shining within Indra’s vast and boundless net. The universe would be a darker place without our light. \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-60/
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 throughout August and will return 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-66/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20250824T113000
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO MEDITACION con Eduardo Fuentes (en Español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 24 de agosto\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-3/
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 August 23rd here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-27/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250821T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Parks is not teaching today\, but will return on September 4th. We hope you join us then!\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-on-break-3/
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:20250819T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250819T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Filling a Sieve with Water
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA teacher said\, “It’s like filling a sieve with water.”\nThe student thought about this for some time but didn’t understand.\nThe teacher got a sieve and they went to the sea.\nThe student poured water into the sieve and it poured out again.\n“How do you do it?” she asked.\nThe teacher threw the sieve out into the ocean\, where it floated for a moment and then sank. \nFilling a sieve with water sounds like a task you might encounter in a fairytale. Something along the lines of picking out a wagonload of poppy seeds from black flour dust or telling the king how many hairs he has on his head. \nIn the case of the person assigning such a task in fairy tales and myths\, they do not expect anyone to succeed\, and even hope for failure. \nIn the case of the koan\, inviting someone to fill a sieve with water is suggested knowing that the person can accomplish the task and may even have already accomplished it\, though they don’t know it themselves. \nThat task is our life and we are always living it\, whether we notice it or not. Our life may feel like a sieve full of holes\, as we feel unable to hold onto anything. But not being able to hold onto anything is just the way life is\, the way a sieve cannot hold onto water. \nWe can spend a lot of time trying to plug up the holes of our life/sieve and may even succeed in being able to make it hold water. But then it is no longer a sieve\, and it is no longer life. To fill a sieve with water is to appreciate that like the cracks that let the light in\, holes in a sieve\, in our life\, let the light and life in. \nAnd what about that moment when the sieve floated before it sank? \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-52/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250818T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Isn't This the Sound?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n“Wuzu said\, “Why did Bodhidharma come from the West? The cypress tree in the garden!”\nAt these words Yuanwu was suddenly enlightened. He went outside the cottage and saw a rooster fly to the top of a railing\, beat his wings and crow loudly. He said to himself\, “Isn’t this the sound?” Full of gratitude\, he took incense back to Wuzu’s room. He told of his discovery and said\,\n“The golden duck vanishes into the golden brocade\, with a country song the drunk comes home from the woods; only the young beauty knows about her love affair.”\nWuzu said\, “I share your joy.”\n\n —Ferguson\, Entangling Vines Case 98\, Notes \n\nUnfathomable\, inexhaustible\, its source mysterious—joy often sustains me in my practice. But is joy the only point? I’m not so sure of that. \nI was probably in a foul mood when I recently reviewed Kosho Uchiyama Roshi’s How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment. I was struck by how little joy he seemed to be expressing in his life at the small temple Antaiji in Kyoto. When a student asked the Roshi what he did for fun\, he was “totally taken by surprise” at the question. The Roshi offered that he takes three shots of whiskey at night to keep his feet warm\, but “at the same time\, I do not live my life to have fun.” \nFun\, of course\, is not the same as joy and gratitude. Uchiyama was the author of some twenty books and a respected Soto master who generously worked with Westerners for decades before his death in 1998. And in the book\, toward the end\, he does devote a few paragraphs of commentary on Eihei Dogen’s exhortation: \nHow fortunate we are to have been born as human beings to be given the opportunity to prepare meals for the Three Treasures. Our attitude should truly be one of joy and gratefulness.\n\nMy querulous mind began bringing up contrasting images of practice from our own zendo. At our Pacific Zen sesshin\, when the Roshi’s dokusan room is near\, loud laughter often spills into the quiet zendo during the one-on-one interviews. Our daily sutra dedications are infused with warmth. ”What I like about you guys\,” one new member told me recently\, “is you laugh a lot.” \nMay you have joy and be welcome\nMay you have joy on the roads\nLet wisdom go to every corner of the house\nLet people have joy in each other’s joy\n\n(Tarrant and Sutherland)\n\nBut that does not make Uchiyama’s reserved way wrong. \nIt is the expression of his life\, his culture\, and his karma. As a young monk\, Uchiyama suffered terribly\, living in a poor\, broken down temple in post-war Japan. After the war\, people were starving. An article of his in Lion’s Roar magazine\, translated as “Laughter Through the Tears\,” speaks of his difficult early days. Those days seemed to have many more tears than laughter. \nIsn’t that also the sound? \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-61/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:OPEN TEMPLE: 11-Week Fall Meditation Pass – ON BREAK until November 7th!
DESCRIPTION:Open Temple is ON BREAK until November 10th.\nFall Open Temple will remain open for those who wish to sit during the break.\nWinter link coming soon!\n\nFREE to PZI Members!\nMorning Meditations 5 Days Weekly\nWherever you are in the world\, let’s sit together.\n \nOpen Temple Pass gives you unlimited access to two morning meditations\, Mondays–Fridays\,\nAugust 18th–October 31st\, 2025. All are welcome. PZI Members attend FREE.* \nPractice leaders will ring the bells and hold a cushion for you. Join us! \n*Open Temple will always remain free of cost as one of the benefits of PZI membership. However\, if you have the means and feel inclined\, donations of any size are immensely appreciated! Just click Add Something Else when checking out your cart. Thank you! \n\nWeekday Schedule\nJoin in as you can\, as often as you like. \nSESSION 1 Sits in the East Temple: 7–8:00 AM Eastern Time\n(or 4–5 AM Pacific) \nSESSION 2 Sits in the West Temple: 6–7:00 AM Pacific Time\n(or 9–10 AM Eastern) \n\nYour Temple Zoom Link\nThe recurring Zoom link for Open Temple access will be in your emailed receipt\,\nfor entrance to ALL morning meditations. \nPZI Members FREE\, Non-Members $125 \nQuestions? Or to check your membership status\, contact Lucas at PZI Support. \n\n\nNot a member of PZI? Now is your chance!  \nJoin us for free access to the Open Temple\, scholarships\, discounts for retreats\,\nour vast and growing library of dharma talks\, and other resources.\n \nBecome a Member
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/open-temple-11-week-into-fall-2025/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Open Temple
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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-67/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO MEDITACION con Eduardo Fuentes (en Español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 17 de Agosto 2025\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-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Just Let It Be
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDaoxin asked Sengcan\, “Please teach me the way of freedom.”\nSengcan asked\, “Who is binding you?”\nDaoxin said\, No one is binding me.”\nSengcan said\, “Then why should you search for freedom?”\nHearing this\, Daoxin had great realization. \nSengcan was the third patriarch of Chan after Bodhidharma\, the first patriarch\, and his student Huike\, the second. Many know the story of Huike cutting off his arm to show his sincerity to Bodhidharma. \nTrust in Mind (the Xinxin Ming) is a well-known composition that begins\, “The great way is not difficult if you just avoid picking and choosing…” and is attributed to Sengcan. \nDaoxin studied with Sengcan for nine years after this exchange about binding. Sengcan acknowledged Daoxin as his successor\, and therefore the fourth patriarch. But\, ask even a longtime Zen practitioner something about the fourth patriarch and more than likely you will get a blank stare in response. \nDaoxin’s realization that he was the one doing the binding—which was keeping him from being free—can be heard echoed in his response to a question about how to become clear. He said: \nDon’t be mindful of the Buddha\,\nDon’t control the mind\,\nDon’t examine the mind\,\nDon’t speculate about the mind\,\nDon’t deliberate\,\nDon’t practice analysis\,\nDon’t become distracted;\nJust let it be.\nDon’t try to get rid of it\,\nDon’t try to make it stay. \nThis very body and mind is always the site of awakening in every step you take. Whatever you do\, wherever you go\, it is all awakening. \n“Just let it be\,” just let your binding be—knowing what you are doing is enough. Anything we “do about it” is just more binding. I can hear this echoed in something Yuanwu said 400 years later: \nLife\, death\, difficulty\, heartache—just let them be and you enter the realm of awakening without leaving the realm of the demon. \nOne of my favorite sakes is called “Demon Slayer\,” but slaying demons is not what this practice is about. Daoxin knew that and taught specific techniques to help. \nSlayed any demons lately? \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-51/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Horses Cross Over
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 thrown across the river.”\nZhaozhou said\, “You only see the log bridge\, you just don’t see the stone bridge.”\n“What is the stone bridge like?”\n“It lets donkeys cross\, it lets horses cross.”\n \n—The Blue Cliff Record\, Case 52 \nAn arched stone bridge. Yes. Horses and donkeys clattering across. Yes\, yes. Such powerful and sensual images. In reading this koan\, horse memories and bridge dreams have visited me again and again. Look\, look\, they say. \nThere is some historical context to this koan: one of the three old stone bridges in China was built at a town called Zhaozhou\, not far from the famous teacher’s temple. The river floods\, or dries up from drought\, but the bridge holds. It is such a grand old bridge\, allowing a whole parade of life: dogs and fleas\, rats\, bandits and emperors. We too may cross. \nYet sometimes all we can see is the narrow\, rickety log plank\, with its uncertainty and dangers. The crossing becomes treacherous\, the world now more fluid. “As I cross the bridge\,” offers Fu Ta-shih\, “the bridge flows\, the water is still.” We don’t know how the crossing will go. \nAs a kid\, I was around horses a lot. My best friend through middle school was a competitive Western–style horseman\, eventually winning the state junior championship for barrel racing. When I stayed over\, we never rode\, but always tended to the horses. With hand hooks we swung green hay bales off the pickup truck. Splitting the alfalfa into flakes for the animals would release a wonderful sweet herbal scent. And the week–old pine shavings\, used for bedding in the stalls\, were soaked with horse piss with its ammonia stink and mixed with fresh shit. I loved shoveling that crap into a wheelbarrow\, being close to the horses. \nThat semi–rural neighborhood is now long gone in time and space; the creeks got paved over\, and the fields were filled in with houses. Gary and his horses moved away\, and we lost contact. After several decades\, I found him on the internet and we reconnected. I worry about him sometimes. A while ago they found a tumor in his brain they had to take out. And three years ago\, he discovered a heart condition the doctors called a “widow–maker\,” which is what his father died from. \nIt sometimes feels like we are in an era of log bridges\, flowing bridges with no familiar structures to rely on. On the phone with an old Zen friend\, she mentioned how dangerous the world has become: Washington\, Gaza\, and fires. It was hard to disagree. Later\, sitting outside in the backyard in the warm sun with my dog\, a lawnmower kicked up next door. It was the most beautiful essence of summer sound. I’m not sure if the sound was a log bridge or a stone bridge\, a horse or a donkey. Maybe that’s not the point\, as long as we can cross. \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-62/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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