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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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SUMMARY:DOMINGO MEDITACION con Eduardo Fuentes (en Español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 6 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\,\ncharla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-meditacion-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-10/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Waiting for the Year of the Donkey
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhenever Luzu saw a student coming\, he immediately faced the wall.\nHearing about this\, Nanquan said\, “I usually say to others\, ‘Make what was before the empty eon your own. Grasp the time when the Buddha had not yet come into the world.’ Still\, I can’t get a whole or even a half a person enlightened. If he goes on like that\, he’ll have to wait for the Year of the Donkey.” \n(There is no ‘Year of the Donkey’ in the Chinese calendar)\n\n —Book of Serenity Case 23 \nWhat stands out for me is Nanquan’s “Still\, I can’t get a whole or even a half a person enlightened.” \nNo one can ‘get’ someone enlightened; it is the recognition of something that has already happened\, not a creation of something. We are enlightened from the very beginning. It is a matter of recognizing that\, not making it happen. \nIn that way\, Nanquan and Luzu are saying the same thing. And in a way\, Luzu is making a perfect presentation of what Nanquan is talking about. \nWe don’t face the wall anymore; we face a wall of other faces and discover that they are all ours. \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-45/
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 today\, 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-59/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250629T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250629T120000
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with Guest Host Tess Beasley & Friends: Fate\, Destiny\, Karma & Coincidence
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nPatterns\, rhymes\, callings\, and coincidences all seem to mark and steer our lives\, often as if by an unseen hand\, gently or firmly guiding us along. \nSometimes such forces can feel like magic\, other times like a curse\, but either way they open us to the inconceivable and inexplicable—both of great interest in Zen. \nIn meditation\, we become more tuned to the larger currents flowing through\, and less preoccupied with our own plans and schemes. We begin to trust the fabric of things as they are\, and over and over again discover we’re in just the right place. \nJoin us Sunday for stories\, meditation\, music\, and deep companionship. \n—Tess Beasley \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends-64/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:Domingo Meditación con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 29 de junio 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-11/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250628T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250628T100000
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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 June 28th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-23/
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-49/
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:20250624T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250624T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060238
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Yantou’s Shout and Bow – Equanimity 22
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYantou came to Deshan’s place. With a foot on each side of the threshold\, he asked\, “Is this ordinary? Is this holy?”\nDeshan roared.\nYantou bowed.\nHearing about this\, Dongshan said\, “No one but clear sighted Yantou would have understood that.”\nYantou said\, “That good old boy Dongshan can’t tell good from bad. At that moment\, I raised up with one hand and pressed down with the other.” \nAs I have been keeping company with this koan\, what has arisen is remembering how many times in reading Yamada Roshi’s commentaries\, he takes a jab at his teacher\, Yasutani. Sometimes the jabs go all the way back to Yasutani’s teacher Harada. He is always respectful\, raising up one hand\, but also jabs\, as he presses down with the other hand. \nThere is no bottom to the well that this practice offers us. So not so surprising that a student would surpass their teacher as they press on\, down into the matter of\, “What is this?” It could be said that it is the responsibility of both the teacher and student to make that so. \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-44/
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:20250623T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250623T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph – The Tao Arrived: A sharing of experiences from the Great Summer Retreat
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nZhaozhou taught\, “The Greatest Way is not difficult if you just don’t pick and choose. As soon as you hear this\, you think\, ‘That’s picking and choosing\,’ or ‘That’s clarity.’ But I don’t identify with clarity. Can you live this way?”\nA student asked\, “If you don’t identify with clarity\, what do you live by?” “Again\, I don’t know\,” responded Zhou.\n“If you don’t know\, why do you say that you don’t identify with clarity?” “Just asking the question is enough\,” replied Zhou. “Make your bow and step back.” \n—The Blue Cliff Record\, Case 2 \nAs I write\, we are finishing up Pacific Zen’s Great Summer Sesshin in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Morning fog rolls up from the Pajaro Valley\, sometimes engulfing our zendo\, but each day around noon the fog burns off and the bright sunshine comes out\, filtering through the coastal redwoods. Over the week our meditations have followed a similar natural rhythm of mist turning to clear sunshine. \n“We are all like fledgling birds\,” one teacher said\, “Each time we come to retreat\, we grow a few more feathers until finally we can fly.” \nDaily\, whole koans or their bits have been flying gracefully across the empty sky in which we sit. A few that appeared this week: \nThe physical body decays. What is the pure and everlasting body? Mountain flowers open like brocade; mountain torrents are deep as indigo. \nOur Mind is nothing other than mountains\, rivers and great earth\, the sun\, moon and stars. \nI spent some time with Zhaozhou’s “Greatest Way” (above)\, one of the most important koans in The Blue Cliff Record. In that koan\, the character Way\, or Tao 道(J. dō)\, is a foundational notion in Chan–Zen. But the character often translated great\, 至 (J. shi)\, in common usage means to arrive\, reach\, attain. So one possible translation of the above term is “The Way Arrived\,” or “The Way that is attained.” \nIf the life we already have is both arrived and attained\, whole and complete in itself\, then this life with all its many avenues and ditches is the greatest way. If somehow we learn to identify less with either endarkenment (picking and choosing) or enlightenment (clarity)\, then perhaps we can walk this greatest way\, this vast empty sky\, with just a bit more ease. As traveling companions\, this pure and everlasting body will always be with us. It forever lives in the valley fog and coastal redwoods. \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-58/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:John Tarrant is on break today for sesshin. Join us again on June 29th!\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-on-break/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:Domingo Meditación con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 22 de Junio 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/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250617T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250617T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is on break for sesshin. We hope you join us again on June 24th! \n\nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe.  \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-on-break/
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 today for the Great Summer Sesshin\, but will return on June 23rd. 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-7/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250615T120000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060238
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with Guest Host Tess Beasley & Friends: Receiving Our Inheritance
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIn The Story of the Buddha\, Siddhartha’s maturing son is brought to his father to ask for his inheritance. \nIt is an inheritance on offer to all of us\, one still being handed along after all these years and universes\, inexhaustible at its source. \nBeing part of the world\, entering this shape for a time\, comes with this and other unfathomable gifts\, but also niggling questions of our legitimacy and right place. Part of practice is discovering our own seat at the feast as well as our own tasks and invitations to keep handing the treasure along. \nThe bright road of the ancestors is in everything you see and hear\, said one teacher. \nJoin us this Father’s Day Sunday for meditation and stories of lineage and belonging. \n—Tess Beasley \nP.S. Tess will provide an update on John Tarrant’s recovery as well. \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-63/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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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-48/
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:20250610T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250610T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Not Knowing Is Most Intimate
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDizang asked Fayan\, “Where are you going from here?”\nFayan said\, “I’m on pilgrimage.”\n“What sort of thing is pilgrimage?”\n“I don’t know.”\n“Not knowing is most intimate.”\nFayan suddenly had a great awakening. \nThis meeting between Dizang and Fayan occurred while Fayan was on pilgrimage with some of his fellow monks. They were forced to take shelter at Dizang’s monastery due to a sudden snowstorm. When the snow stopped and they were ready to leave\, Dizang asked Fayan the question that opens this koan. \nEvidently\, Fayan’s traveling companions were not as impressed with Dizang’s statement about “not knowing” as Fayan was. They pressed on with their pilgrimage and Fayan chose to stay with Dizang for a while. We are told that Fayan had a great awakening at hearing Dizang’s words and he chose to stay longer\, which says something about there being no end to practice\, even after great awakening. \nDuring his time with Dizang\, when trying to clarify his experience\, Fayan would have a conversation with Dizang\, and all that Dizang would say\, to whatever Fayan brought up\, was that “The teachings are not like that.” Finally\, Fayan decided to leave Dizang and continue on with his pilgrimage. \nOn the day of his departure\, Dizang accompanied Fayan to the gate of the temple. He said\, “I have heard you say many times that everything is in the mind. What about that boulder next to the gate? Is it in the mind also?” Fayan replied\, “Yes\, it is.” To which Dizang said\, “Isn’t it going to be difficult to go on pilgrimage with a boulder in your mind?” At that point\, Fayan had another great awakening experience and decided to stay a bit longer with Dizang. \nAgain\, when Fayan would speak \,with Dizang trying to clarify his understanding\, Dizang would say\, “The teachings are not like that.” Finally\, Fayan came to Dizang and said\, “I have used up everything\, my mind is empty\, I have nothing to say.” At which point Dizang said\, “It is exactly that empty mind in which mountains and rivers and the boulder next to the temple gate appear.” At which point Fayan had another great awakening experience\, taking him deeper into “not knowing being most intimate.” \nLast week’s koan with Yunmen comes to mind. “Not a single thought arising” sounds like\, “not knowing\,” doesn’t it? \nIt is not easy to not know; we must forget what we know and forget that we have forgotten. \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-43/
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:ZEN LUMINARIES: Untangled – Jon Joseph in Conversation with Author\, Zen Teacher\, and Jungian Psychotherapist Koshin Paley Ellison
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nKoshin Paley Ellison is recognized as one of today’s most thoughtful and trusted leaders in the contemplative medicine movement. With his husband\, Chodo Campbell\, he co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care\, an educational non-profit dedicated to integrating contemplative approaches to care with contemporary medicine. Through Koshin’s leadership and vision\, NYZC has developed transformational\, collaborative training experiences: the Foundations in Contemplative Care and the Contemplative Medicine Fellowship. Today\, New York Zen Center’s teachings and practices are internationally recognized — and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals. \nAs a renowned thought leader in contemplative care\, Koshin’s work has been featured in the New York Times\, PBS\, CBS Sunday Morning and other media outlets. Koshin and Chodo were featured in Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death\, a documentary about facing our mortality and are also the focus of a forthcoming documentary about Buddhism in America for Dutch television. \nKoshin is the author of Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity\, Courage\, and Compassion (Balance/Hachette\, 2022); Wholehearted: Slow Down\, Help Out\, Wake Up (Wisdom Publications\, 2019)\, and the co-editor of Awake at Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care (Wisdom Publications\, 2016). \nSource: The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care \n“Intimacy is based on the willingness to open ourselves to many others\, to family\, friends\, and even strangers\, forming genuine and deep bonds based on common humanity. Koshin Paley Ellison’s teachings share the way forward into a path of connection\, compassion\, and intimacy.” \n—His Holiness the Dalai Lama \n“Oh\, what a tangled web we weave when we believe our own thoughts! Koshin Paley Ellison shares his wisdom and passion in Untangled. Written with truth\, humor\, sometimes revealing pain\, always manifesting compassion\, Untangled is a gem.” \n―Sharon Salzberg\, author of Loving Kindness and Real Change \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-koshin-paley-ellison/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250609T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060238
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is on break today for Pacific Zen Luminaries\, but will return on June 23rd. 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-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250608T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250608T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: He Finds Himself in a Stone Crypt
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nPlants grow when I’m sleeping\, perhaps awakening does\, too. \nEveryone has their own predicament\, and—who knows? \nLet’s start with being a body in pain; the body has its own trajectory. \nWhat does it mean to turn towards the unsympathetic moment? \nThat’s what enlightenment is\, too\, a moment unsympathetic to everything previously understood. \nJoin us on Sunday. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-62/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Is Mount Sumeru a Problem or Not?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Yunmen\, “When not one thought arises\, is there a problem or not?”\nYunmen said\, “Mount Sumeru.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 19 \nThe first thing that came along was another koan involving Yunmen: \nOnce Master Yunmen asked\, “What’s wrong with someone who is in the dark about himself?”\nHe answered on behalf of the silent monks\, “That ought not to be a  problem for a great person!”  \nHearing Yunmen reply “Mount Sumeru” to the student’s question\, and knowing that Mount Sumeru is a “wonderfully tall” mountain at the center of the universe\, one might suppose that Yunmen is saying that not having one thought arise is an obstacle as large as Mount Sumeru. Or one might think that it is an achievement as great as Mount Sumeru. \nShortly after that koan about being in the dark about oneself\, another koan with Yunmen came along in which a friend who had been teaching asks his friends how he did. Yunmen’s response was “Barrier!” Is that good? Is that not good? What is Yunmen saying? Is he saying that if you have to ask the question about your teaching then you have the answer? \nFinally\, for no apparent reason\, a koan that used to be part of the miscellaneous collection in Kamakura paid me a visit. \nWhich is taller\, Mount Fuji or Mount Everest? Only a fool would say Mount Everest\, how do you respond? \nSee you on Tuesday. \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-42/
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:20250602T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Holding the Story More Lightly
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nMinister Luxuan was having a conversation with Nanquan and said\, “Sengzhao said\, ‘The universe and I have the same root. The ten thousand things and I have one body.’ How very strange and wonderful!” \nNanquan pointed to a flower in the courtyard and called to the minister saying\, “These days people see this flower as though it’s a dream.” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 40 \nNeed we so deeply believe the endless stories that make up our dream self? \nKoshin Paley Ellison is a therapist\, Zen teacher\, and co-founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care\, which provides training in care for the aging\, recovering\, terminally ill\, and professional care-givers. He writes: \n“We see what we want to see\, or what we are afraid will happen\, as opposed to what actually is. Can you think of a time in your life when you were so lost in a story—either a good one or a bad one—that you didn’t see right under your nose?” \nIn his book\, Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity\, Courage and Compassion\, Koshin recalls a family that had a story they could not let go of. Called by the family to the hospital emergency room at 4:00 a.m.\, he relates: \n***** \nThis was early in my clinical training\, and I remember thinking\, “Oh god\, what am I going to do?” Then I realized—that wasn’t my feeling. I got interested in that feeling of “I don’t know what to do\,” and realized I had taken on that feeling the moment I walked in. \nWe walk into rooms all the time and experience them as sad or energetic rooms. This was a fearful\, bewildered room\, so I took on the feeling\, “I don’t know what to do\, I’m scared\, I feel helpless.” \nInstead of continuing to take it on\, I got curious. I felt tight in my chest\, and then I looked at the family pressed up against the curtain. Their breath was all in their chests\, their eyes were wide. \nI said\, “What’s happening?” They said\, “We don’t know what to do. We don’t know what’s happening.” I saw\, when I looked over at the father on the bed\, that he was clearly mouthing something. \nI said\, “Do you know what he’s saying?” They said\, “No.” So I went over\, and he was whispering. This little man was whispering\, “Hold me\, hold me\, hold me.” I gently touched his hand and I said\, “I’ll be right back\, hold on.” \nI told them\, “He wants to be held.” \nThey said\, “We can’t do that.” \nI said\, “If you hold me\, I’ll hold him.” \nI don’t know what came over me. If we don’t stay with the fear\, and we explore the feeling instead\, things can shift. \nI wanted to help them get close\, so I said\, “One of you keep your hand on me\, and the rest hold each other\, and we’ll make a little chain.” I gently leaned across the bed and held the man around his shoulders\, my arm on his arm. He said\, “Ahhhhhh. More\, more\, more.” \nI ended up crawling into the bed with him\, holding him\, as his wife was touching me on my shoulder\, and I was holding him\, embracing him\, this man. And he said\, “Ahhhhhh\, thank you\, thank you.” And he died. \n***** \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-57/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250801T070000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060238
CREATED:20250530T140640Z
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SUMMARY:OPEN TEMPLE: 9-Week Summer Meditation Pass – MEMBERS FREE
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\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\,\nJune 2nd–August 1st\, 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-9-week-summer-meditation-pass/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Open Temple
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: When Useless Things Don’t Stick in the Mind
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSpring comes with its flowers\, autumn with the moon.\nSummer with breezes\, winter with the snow\,\nwhen useless things don’t cloud the mind\nthat is the good season. \n(Wumen’s Verse) \nThis raises the question about what should stick in the mind? \nThe Blue Cliff Record starts with\, “Knock on any door; someone will answer.” \nThe irises dying\, the dahlias not yet arrived—is this our moment of beauty? \nThe idea is that you can enter from anywhere—a child’s eyes\, a single leaf falling\, a feeling in your own heart. \nWhatever appears is a door. \nDeparting spring\,\nbirds cry out\ntears in the eyes of fish \n(Basho) \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-61/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T160000
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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-47/
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:20250527T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250527T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060238
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Are You Hooked on Yes and No?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA monk asked Zhaozhou\, “Does the dog have buddha nature or not?”\nZhaozhou replied\, “It has.” \n“Then why is it thrust into that hairy bag?”\n“Because it committed itself intentionally.”\nAnother time a monk asked Zhaozhou\, “Does the dog have buddha nature or not?”\nZhaozhou said\, “It doesn’t.”\n“All beings have buddha nature. How is it that the dog has none?”\n“Because of its inherent karma.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 18 \nPart of a koan that has been spending time with me is the third line of the verse\, “The straight hook seeks fish that turn from life.” \nThe two previous lines are\, “Dog\, buddha nature—yes.” and “Dog\, buddha nature—no.” They are the straight hook. Are you hooked? \nI hear echoes of Magu\, Nanquan and Zhangjing as I am invited to go beyond the place of “right” and “wrong.” Can you hear them? \nI can feel Fayan’s hairsbreadth of difference between “Dog\, buddha nature—yes.” and “Dog\, buddha nature—no.” Can you feel it? \nSee you on Tuesday. \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-41/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Zen and the Ways: Searching for a Master Swordsman
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFor thirty years I searched for a master swordsman.\nHow many times did the leaves fall\nand the branches break into bud?\nBut from the moment I saw the peach blossoms\, I’ve had no doubts. \n—Entangling Vines\, Case 8 \nThe above poem was written by the 9th century Chan-Zen master Lingyun Zhiqin\, on his becoming awakened while turning a corner in the road and seeing across the valley peach trees in bloom. What did he realize? For a moment he dropped his search for mastery and realized the intimate\, personal beauty of the blossoms. \nSome five centuries later\, the Japanese priest Keizan Jokin wrote: \nThe village peach blossoms didn’t know \ntheir own pink\nbut still they freed Lingyun\nfrom all his doubts. \nOur search for a master swordsman in Chan-Zen is not so different from the search for mastery in the traditional East Asian arts of self-defense. Both seek to drop the self and find the Way. \n“Archery\, therefore\, is not practiced solely for hitting the target\,” writes Eugen Herrigel\, in his classic Zen in the Art of Archery (1953)\, “The mind must be attuned to the Unconscious. If one really wishes to be master of an art\, technical knowledge is not enough. One has to transcend technique so that the art becomes an ‘artless art’ growing out of the Unconscious.” The master swordsman must forget the sword. \nThere is probably no martial art more closely associated with Zen Buddhism in recent years than Aikido (合気道)\, sometimes translated as “The Way of the Harmonious Spirit.” Developed by Morihei Ueshiba (honorifically called\, “Osensei”) in the 1920s to defend oneself against an attacker without seriously injuring the assailant\, the defender actually uses the momentum of the attack against the attacker himself. \n“It’s a lot like dancing\,” says Lance Sobel\, who has just returned from a three-day Aikido training period. Lance\, a fourth-degree black belt\, has been practicing Aikido for fifty years and Zen meditation for nearly as long. He got into martial arts in his early 30s\, and decided to try something other than Karate after breaking bones in both hands after a training session. He notes that early training in Aikido is structured: one partner attacks\, the other partner moves out of range and as the attacker comes closer\, immobilizes or throws them across the mat. More advanced training is spontaneous and free-form: the defender looks for openings with energy\, redirects that energy\, the two enter that dance. \n“When the dance starts happening in a dynamic way\, there is an incredible sense of the universe\, of expanded awareness\,” says Lance. “Where can I safely move? Where can I move them? You are not locked into a predetermined response; it moves more like an organism.” \nTodd Geist\, a Head of Practice at Pacific Zen and a second degree Aikido black belt writes\, “What I loved most about Aikido training was the sense of absolute ease that could come even when being tossed head over heels across the mat. There would be this moment of contact with your partner\, and your body just reacts. Suddenly you are in the air. Not because your partner overwhelmed or hurt you\, but because that was the best way to resolve the situation and dissipate the energy of conflict\, and your body just knew how to do it. It wasn’t always\, or even often like that\, but when it was\, I felt completely free.” \n“We are doing Aikido in order to become freer ultimately\,” writes Seishiro Endo\, 8th dan and elder in the original Aikikai school. “We must savor the circumstance at this moment now as it vibrates from the partner\, open our senses regarding the whole situation around us\, and be able to give rise to function. I hope that we will continue to practice while valuing the vibration in this moment\, now\, now\, now…” \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-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T103000
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: Calming the Mind\, Protecting the Mind\, Trusting the Mind
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIf you try to calm the mind\, you just make waves. If you don’t practice\, well you are just lost in Delusionville. What to do? \nChangqing Da’an said\, “I lived with Guishan for more than thirty years. I ate Guishan’s food\, I shat Guishan’s shit\, but I didn’t study Guishan’s Zen. All I did was look after an ox. If he got off the road\, I dragged him back; if he trampled the grain in others’ fields\, I trained him with a whip. For a long time he was so pitiful\, at the mercy of everyone’s words! Now he’s changed into the white ox on the bare ground\, always right in front of my face. All day long he clearly reveals himself; even if I chase him he doesn’t go away.” \nJoin us on Sunday\, Friends\, to examine the question of meditation. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-60/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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