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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250826T180000
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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/
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250821T160000
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250818T180000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251031T070000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20250817T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20250817T113000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250811T180000
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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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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is ON BREAK today\, but will return on August 17th. We hope you join us then!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-68/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20250810T113000
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SUMMARY:Domingo Meditación con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 10 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-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250809T100000
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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 9th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-26/
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: 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-2/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250805T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Huguo’s Three Shames
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nHuguo’s Three Shames \nA monk asked Huguo\, “How about when a crane perches on a withered pine tree?”\nHuguo said\, “It is a shame when seen from the ground.”\n“What about when every drop of water is frozen?”\n“It’s a shame after the sun has risen.”\n“At the time of the persecution of Buddhism\, where were the Dharma Guardian Dieties?”\n“On both sides of the great gate\, they should be ashamed.” \nBook of Serenity Case 28 \n\nThe word “shame” can be used in several ways\, functioning as both a noun and a verb. \nAs a noun: \nA painful feeling of guilt or embarrassment: She felt a deep sense of shame after lying to her friends. \nSomething regrettable or disappointing: It’s a shame that the concert was canceled. \nAs a verb: \nTo force someone to do something through a sense of shame: The parents shamed the child into apologizing. \nTo surpass or outdo someone or something: Her artistic talent put the other students to shame. \nWhich way did “shame” appear to you in the koan? \nFor me it was the “shame” of not taking a step from the hundred foot pole. \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-50/
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:20250804T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Feast On Your Life
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSit. Feast on your life.\n\nThese are the last lines of the Derek Walcott poem\, “Love after Love.” Walcott\, whose family was of English\, Dutch\, and African descent\, and who grew up in the Caribbean\, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. When Edward Espe Brown recently visited our Luminaries Series\, I asked him to read Walcott’s poem\, which he included in his latest book\, The Most Important Point. Edward recited it from memory. \nOn reading and then hearing the poem\, powerful thoughts and references welled up for me. This verse is often seen as a song of rediscovering oneself\, of finding a new self-acceptance after being awash in heartache and loss. \nThe time will come\nwhen with elation\,\nyou will greet yourself arriving\nat your own door\, in your own mirror\,\nand each will smile at the other’s welcome\n\nHere we meet Dongshan’s old woman from The Five Ranks\, who wakes up late one morning\, looks into a mirror\, and finds in her own face a new reflection. \nAnd the monk Jinniu\, who in The Blue Cliff Record laughs and dances heartily as he serves the monks food\, saying: “Bodhisattvas\, come eat your rice!” \nWalcott continues: \nand say\, sit here. Eat.\nYou will love again the stranger who is your self.\nGive wine. Give bread. Give back heart\nto itself\, to the stranger who has loved you\n\nall your life\, whom you have ignored\nfor another\, who knows you by heart.\nTake down the love letters from the bookshelf\n\nthe photographs\, the desperate notes\,\npeel your own image from the mirror.\nSit. Feast on your life.\n\n(Derek Walcott\, Collected Poems 1948-84) \nEdward recounts a private meeting with Shunryu Suzuki: \nThe roshi tells him: “The most important point…” and he paused as I prompted\nmyself to listen intently as the words came out slowly\, “is… to find out… what is… the most important point.”\n\nGoing into our Luminaries chat\, I asked myself\, as I do daily: \nWhat is the most important point? \nWhat is my inmost desire? \nWhy am I practicing? \nWho am I? \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-63/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250803T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Tess Beasley & Friends: Like a Moth to a Flame\, the Draw of Practice
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA monk asked Yunmen\, “What was Niutou after he met the Fourth Ancestor?”\nYunmen said\, “The moth in the flame swallows the tiger.” \nSomething draws us toward this fire called illumination. Whether in response to curiosity\, great change\, or some kind of deep ache\, we begin to make our way out of the dark with questions and longing—not just once\, but again and again. \nMany stages unfold as we draw near and take up a real practice\, many more as practice deepens. Hunger\, relief\, delight\, despair… doubt. How to progress\, we wonder. Do we have what it takes? Resistance plays its role\, too\, showing us what we fear most to let go. \nThere’s no rushing transformation\, but there’s no need either. As Wumen writes in his Gateless Gate collection: \nBecause it’s so very clear\,\nit takes so long to realize.\nAs soon as you know that a candle flame is fire\,\nyou’ll discover your rice has long been cooked. \nJoin us Sunday for meditation\, stories of practice\, and company of the finest temple musicians around. \n—Tess Beasley \nP.S. John Tarrant is continuing to recover well in the care of his summer garden. He’ll happily be teaching in Bolinas next weekend and\, with any luck\, be back in the temple August 17th. \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-69/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO MEDITACION con Eduardo Fuentes (en Español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 3 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-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250729T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Fayan's Blinds
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFayan took the high seat before the midday meal to preach to his assembly.\nRaising his hand he pointed to the bamboo blinds. \nTwo monks went and rolled them up in the same manner.\nFayan said\, “One gains; one loses.” \nWumen’s comment: \nTell me\, which one gained? Which one lost? If you have the eye regarding this\, you will see where Fayan failed. But I must warn you strictly against arguing gain and loss. \nWin\, lose\, right\, wrong\, gain\, loss\, it’s all in the same territory.\nWhat is Fayan doing in that territory\, saying one gains and one loses? Doesn’t he know better? Is that how Fayan failed?\nAssuming he does know better\, what is he talking about then? What if he’s not talking about the two monks? Who else could he be talking about? \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-49/
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: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is on break for Pacific Zen Luminaries. Join us again on August 4th!\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-8/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:PACIFIC ZEN LUMINARIES: How to Cook Your Life – No Recipe! Jon Joseph in Conversation with Author and Zen Teacher Edward Espe Brown
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nEdward Espe Brown found his way to Zen practice in 1965\, and dove in whole-heartedly. He was the first head cook\, or tenzo\, at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center\, and in 1970 his best-selling book\, The Tassajara Bread Book\, was published. \nHis teacher\, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi\, ordained him as a priest in 1971\, giving him the dharma name Jusan Kainei (“Longevity Mountain\, Peaceful Sea”). \nIn the years since\, Edward helped found Greens Restaurant in San Francisco\, worked with Deborah Madison in writing The Greens Cookbook\, and has written several other cookbooks\, including The Complete Tassajara Cookbook\, and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings. He edited Not Always So\, a collection of Suzuki Roshi’s lectures\, and in 2007\, he was the subject of a critically acclaimed feature-length documentary film entitled How to Cook Your Life\, directed by Doris Dörrie. \nIn 2018\, No Recipe: Cooking as a Spiritual Practice\, Edward’s book about finding our own way in the kitchen – and in life – was published. One of Edward’s students\, Danny Parker\, put together a book of his lectures\, selected from 30 years’ worth of teaching; The Most Important Point was published in 2019. \nIn addition to studying Zen\, Edward has also done extensive vipassana practice\, yoga\, and chi gung. He leads regular sitting groups and meditation retreats in Northern California and offers workshops in the U.S. and internationally on a variety of subjects\, including cooking\, handwriting change\, and Mindfulness Touch. \nSource: peacefulseasangha.org \n“Suzuki Roshi once said\, ‘The most important point is to find out what is the most important point.’ After a lifetime of practice inspired by his teacher\, Suzuki Roshi\, Ed Brown has discovered that the most important point is love and acceptance. No one expresses this most important point better than Ed. His simple\, soulful\, honest talks will melt your heart.” \n―Norman Fischer\, poet\, Zen priest\, and author of Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language\, and Religion \n“It was the wish of Ed’s teacher\, Shunryu Suzuki\, that Zen Buddhist practice might be transformed into a vibrant and new form in coming to North America. Ed exemplifies that transformative view.” \n—Danny S. Parker\, editor \n\n \nJon Joseph Roshi of San Mateo Zen and PZI created this series to support the hardworking innovators and shining voices of modern Zen: scholars\, writers\, poets\, translators\, activists\, artists\, teachers\, and more. \nAll proceeds for each event\, including teacher dana\, go directly to the guest speaker. Event attendees are encouraged to give as generously as you are able\, so we can offer deep thanks to Luminaries guests. \nOur suggested donation is $10 for PZI Members and $12 for Non-Members\, but the scale slides from zero depending on one’s ability to contribute. We also greatly appreciate Patrons\, who help support the program with larger gifts of $25—$250.
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/zen-luminaries-with-edward-espe-brown/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Jesse Cardin & Friends: The Stone Woman Calls Us Back
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA monk asked Hongzhi\, “What about the ones who’ve gone?”\nHongzhi said\, “White clouds rise to the top of the valleys\, blue peaks lean into the empty sky.”\nThe monk asked\, “What about the ones who return?”\nHongzhi said\, “Heads covered in white hair\, they leave the cliffs and valleys. In the dead of night they descend through the clouds to the market stalls.”\n“What about the ones who neither come nor go?”\n“The stone woman calls them back from their dream of the world.” \n—PZI Miscellanous Koans\, Case 34 \nLeaving the world is an essential stage in the path of Zen. Unmoored from the ballast of desire\, we dissolve into the clear solution of spirit. We rise and rise until we disappear into the night sky\, lost among the countless twinkling stars. \nBut the journey does not end there. The other half of our life lies in this world\, with its burdens and surprises and beautiful\, fragile bodies. And so we return bearing the fresh memory of our celestial ancestry\, to find the stars now scattered throughout deserts and cities. \nThe great joke in the end is that we’ve always been here\, listening to the stone woman as she calls us home. \nSee you Sunday\, \n—Jesse Cardin \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-jesse-cardin-friends-70/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO MEDITACION con Eduardo Fuentes (en Español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 27 de julio 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-7/
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 July 26th here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-25/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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