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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250805T180000
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250804T180000
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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20250727T113000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T100000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250724T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250724T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Parks is on break until 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/
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:20250722T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250722T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: What Is the Source of White?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYangshan pointed to the statue of a snow lion and asked\,\n“Is there anyone who can go beyond this whiteness?”                                                                                            Yunmen said\, “I’d have immediately knocked it over for him.”\nXuedou said\, “He only explains knocking it over\, he doesn’t explain helping it up.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 26 \nWe met Yangshan in Book of Serenity Case 15\, when he planted his hoe in the ground in response to Guishan’s question about how many people were working in the field. In that koan Yangshan put his hoe over his shoulder and went off to South Mountain to help with the harvest. \nThis reminds me of the comments on the Snow Lion koan from Yunmen and Xuedou. Planting his hoe\, knocking it over\, putting her hoe over her shoulder and going to South Mountain\, helping it up. \nThen there is white—the color of purity\, that single sheet of white silk. Some people try to scrub their mind clean of all thoughts\, believing that is the Way\, eliminating all impurities. But white is not the absence of color\, it is the presence of all colors\, just as the awakened mind is not the absence of thought. \nAnother koan involving Yangshan and his teacher Guishan came to join in the conversation. In that koan Guishan presents Yangshan with the case of someone saying\, “There is only disorderly karmic consciousness and nothing whatsoever to rely on.” We cannot rely on the color white; we must go beyond it. \nTaking a step off a 100-foot pole\, the Hermit of Lotus blossom peak saying\, “It has no power for the Way\,” Zhaozhou’s “I do not abide in clarity\,” and “What is the source of ‘No’?”—these also came along to join in the conversation. \nWhat is the source of white? \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-48/
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:20250721T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250721T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Why Wait? We Can Have It Right Now
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne day\, Huangbo went into the kitchen and asked the cook what he was doing\, and the cook said he was sorting rice for the monks. Huangbo asked how much rice they were eating. \n\nThe cook replied\, “Two-and-a-half measures.”\n“Isn’t that too much?” asked Huangbo.\n“I’m afraid it isn’t enough\,” said the cook.\nHuangbo struck him.\n\nLater\, the cook mentioned this to Linji\, who said\, “I’ll test the old fellow for you.” As soon as Linji came to attend Huangbo\, Huangbo told the story and said that the cook didn’t understand.\n\nLinji asked\, “Isn’t that too much?” And then he said\, “Teacher\, kindly give a turning word in place of the cook.”\n“Well\, why not say\, ‘We’ll eat a meal again tomorrow!’”\nLinji slapped Huangbo and said\, “Why talk about tomorrow—eat it right now!”\n“This lunatic has come here again to pull the tiger’s whiskers\,” said Huangbo.\nLinji shouted and went out.\n\n—The Record of Linji\, Critical Examinations\, I \nWhy wait until tomorrow? Why not have it now? \nUpon entering practice\, it is hard not to set targets and timelines. At least it has been hard for me. Fulfillment\, awakening\, recognition: these goals are hard\, if not impossible\, to resist. “I’m late\, I’m late\, for a very important date!” says Alice’s White Rabbit. I notice in myself a constant urge to trade up for something better. \nWe sometimes forget there is nothing better than this moment\, this place. The good news is we don’t have to wait around for “this.” We can enter the world of awakening right now. But it may not be what we anticipated\, planned for\, or scheduled. It may look a lot like our ordinary life\, but also more mysterious\, more wonderful\, and more beautiful than we imagined. \nIn his introduction to Edward Espe Brown’s The Most Important Point\, editor Danny Parker writes about his big hopes\, and then his great disappointment\, on entering the path. \n“My experience with Zen practice during those months was surprising and largely disappointing—not at all what I imagined. Nothing in my life was solved. My problems loomed larger than when I first came. Far from reaching enlightenment\, I experienced my life as patently mundane. The magic carpet of kensho was pulled out from under me. The great hope of a big transformative realization was gone.”   \nAfter a time\, Danny drifted away from the practice. A decade later\, he was invited by a friend to do a one-day sitting with Ed Brown\, and it became for him “one of the most powerful and pivotal” moments of his life. \n“Old pinecones falling periodically on the metal roof thumped like a cheering section; outdoors jays wailed for me. Even my aching legs seemed to love me. I was home again in quiet simple kindness.”\n\nLinji is the master of the “Don’t Wait” school\, and some of his advice is exceedingly helpful\, in the most simple\, immediate manner: Forget the primi or secondi piatti\, eat your dolce now. \nWe don’t have to believe the stories we cook up. We can be generous hosts and offer welcome. And we can do that right now. \n—Jon Joseph \nArt: A Dahlia from my garden\, with photo assist from Stephen Gay \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-64/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250720T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Jesse Cardin & Friends: Chaos! Disorder! Nothing to Rely On!
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nGuishan asked Yangshan\, “Suppose that out of the blue\, someone asks you\, ‘All sentient beings only have karmic consciousness\, boundless and with no foundation to rely on.’ How would you conduct an inquiry into this?”\nYangshan said\, “If a student like that came\, I’d call\, ‘Hey so and so!’\nWhen the student turns his head\, then I say\, ‘What is it?’\nThen I’d wait while she thinks about it.\nThen I’d say\, ‘Not only is karmic consciousness boundless but also there is no foundation to rely on.’”\nGuishan said\, “Good!” \n—Book of Serenity\, Case 37 \nYou\, what do you own the world?\nHow do you own disorder? \n—System of a Down\, Toxicity \n\nOh\, man. My mind the past few days has been a wreck! It gnaws on itself\, chases out after things\, and constantly generates the least helpful theories possible about what’s going on in my life. \nI got sick on the day my parents came to visit\, my 5–year–old kicked me out of my bed for the second night in a row\, and now my cats’ automatic litter box has gone haywire. \nIt feels like someone has taken the carefully arranged Scrabble board of my thoughts and dumped it upside–down. \nSo what’s the remedy\, Doctor? What can you prescribe me? \nChaos! Disorder! Nothing to rely on! \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-71/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO MEDITACION con Eduardo Fuentes (en Español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 20 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-8/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250715T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250715T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Stop the World!
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne day\, Yanguan called to his attendant\, “Bring me the rhinoceros fan.”\nThe attendant said\, “It’s broken.”\nYanguan said\, “If the fan is broken\, bring me the rhinoceros.”\nThe attendant did not answer.\nZifu drew a circle and wrote “rhinoceros” inside it. \nBook of Serenity Case 25\n\nYanguan’s request to have the rhinoceros brought to him stopped the world of his attendant. It’s sort of like being on a playground merry-go-round which suddenly stops\, but the world keeps spinning. I’m reminded of last week’s koan about the turtle-nosed snake and how being bitten by it stops the world. \nImagine someone asking you what your favorite color is and after you tell them\, they say\, “No\, it’s not.” That might stop you or might stop the world—either way. Anything might do it\, be the trigger\, the catalyst; like the sound of a pebble hitting bamboo\, or being told a dog does not have Buddha nature\, or that last step that you forgot was there.  \nOne of my personal favorites is reaching for something that’s not there. It should be there\, it is always there\, I’m sure I put it there\, and in the moment before any thought\, before I start assigning blame\, it’s quiet. \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-47/
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:20250714T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching tonight\, but will return on July 21st. 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-65/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250713T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250713T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Jesse Cardin & Friends: Riding the Dragon
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nThere must be some kind of way outta here\nSaid the joker to the thief\nThere’s too much confusion\nI can’t get no relief \n—Bob Dylan \nThis world is absolutely crazypants! How can any halfway reasonable person be expected to make their way through a life as weird as this one without losing their dadgum mind?  There must be some trick to this\, right? \nWell boy howdy\, have I got a deal for you! With my 10-step plan\, Riding the Dragon\, you’ll never have to be a victim of life’s cruel capriciousness ever again! \nLoved ones not acting right? No problem! Society falling to pieces around you? Piece of cake! Favorite sports team having a bad season? That’s a tough one\, actually… \nJoin us on Sunday for a revolutionary program that will turn your life around. \nI’ll share my patented method\, answer questions from listeners\, and we’ll all enjoy meditation and music together. \nIf you’ve got questions or comments about riding the dragon in your life that you’d like addressed on air\, shoot them to me ASAP at jesse.r.cardin@gmail.com. \nSee you there! \n—Jesse Cardin \n(Disclaimer: Jesse Cardin assumes no responsibility for the veracity of any claims made in this or any advertisement and makes no guarantees as to the effectiveness of any methods provided in any program\, workshop\, or retreat. Dragons may vary.) \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-72/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20250713T113000
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO MEDITACION con Eduardo Fuentes (en Español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 13 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-9/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T100000
DTSTAMP:20260429T120242
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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 12th here:\n \nhttps://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0848A9AD2CA7F4C25-57353693-saturday \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-24/
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
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-50/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Xuefeng's Turtle-Nosed Snake
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nXuefeng said to the gathering\, “There is a turtle nosed snake on South Mountain.\nAll of you should take a good look.”\nChangqing said\, “There are definitely people in this hall today in danger of losing their lives.”\nYunmen threw his staff in front of Xuefeng and acted as if he were frightened.\nA student told Xuansha about this. Xuansha said\, “Of course\, my brother Changqing sees it like that.\nBut even if he’s right\, I wouldn’t say it that way.”\n“What point would you make?” asked the student.\n“Why bring South Mountain into it?” responded Xuansha. \nPart of another Book of Serenity koan came along as I kept company with this koan about Xuefeng’s turtle-nosed snake.  \nThat koan is Case fifty-six: \nA student asked Qinglin\, “When a student goes along the path\, what about that?”\nQinglin said\, “There’s a poisonous snake on the path.\nI advise the student not to run into it.”\n“What about when the student runs into it?”\n“She must mourn her life.”\n“What about when she doesn’t run into it?”\n“There is no way to avoid it.” \nQinglin advises students to not run into the poisonous snake on the path\, and then says that there is no way to avoid it\, that there’s a koan there for you. Xuefeng advises that we take a good look. I’m thinking that Qinglin’s snake and Xuefeng’s snake are the same snake.  \nIn either case\, we lose our life. Also\, what came along was what is traditionally recited at the end of each evening of a retreat\,  \nLife and death are grave matters\, all things pass quickly away\, always be completely alert\, never neglectful\, never indulgent.  \nWhile awareness of our mortality can focus the mind\, I don’t think that’s what either Xuefeng or Qinglin are talking about. \nThen there is Xuansha’s comment\, “Why bring South Mountain into it?” In my conversations with several people who participated in our last retreat\, they report continuing to feel carried by the retreat since it’s completion nearly two weeks ago.  \nWhy bring the retreat into it?  \nDo you have a ‘South Mountain’? \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-46/
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 not teaching tonight\, but will return on July 21st. 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-9/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Jesse Cardin & Friends: One Strip of White Silk
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nOne strip of white silk. \nIt’s an ancient image in Chan\, the whole universe as one strip of white silk. And it is currently on display everywhere: the morning breeze sweeps eucalyptus leaves across the pavement; someone down the street is shouting and I feel disturbed; the Laguna Canyon stretches down to the sea before me. \nShitou said\, \nWe and everything we perceive\nare interwoven and not interwoven\,\nand this interweaving continues on and on\,\nwhile each thing stands in its own place. \nThis is not something to believe but a possibility to open ourselves to. As the mind settles\, our sensing sinks down and in\, like raindrops penetrating the soil. The entire bright universe bursts into being\, a flower simultaneously in full bloom and always unfolding. \nLooking forward to sitting with you on 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-guest-host-jesse-cardin-friends-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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