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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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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250602T180000
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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
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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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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
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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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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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SUMMARY:Sábado Meditación y Perfección con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:Sábado Meditación y Perfección con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)\n\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nSábado 24 de Mayo 2025\nde 10:00 a 12:00 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPresencial y online\n\nRegistrarse: shambhalapucon@gmail.com\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el sábado 24 de mayo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sabado-meditacion-y-perfeccion-with-eduardo-fuentes/
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 May 24th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-21/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Fayan’s Hairsbreadth
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFayan asked Xiushan\, “‘If there is the tiniest separation\, it’s the distance between heaven and earth.’ How do you understand that?”\nXiushan said\, “If there is the tiniest separation\, it’s the distance between heaven and earth.”\nFayan said\, “If that’s your understanding\, you have not realized it yet.”\nXuishan said\, “It’s like that for me. What is it like for you?”\nFayan said\, “If there is the tiniest separation\, it’s the distance between heaven and earth.”\nXiushan bowed. \n—Book of Serenity Case 17 \nLast week’s koan about Magu comes to mind: There was a hair’s breadth difference between what he presented to Changqing and what he then presented to Nanquan. Then there’s Fayan’s “god of fire seeks fire\,” and how there was a hair’s breadth difference between the way the student said it and how Fayan said it. \nThen there’s Fayan with Dizang and the hair’s breadth difference between Dizang saying\, “The boulder is in the mind\,” and Fayan saying\, “The boulder is in the mind.”  And there’s when Fayan pointed at the blinds and two monks raised them\, and Fayan said\, “One gains\, one loses.” \nThere was a hair’s breadth difference there\, too. \nThen there’s the way my spell-checker kept writing “hair’s breath” instead of “hair’s breadth\,” and the inquiry that ensued. \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-40/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Yes. My Dog Has Buddha Nature.
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Zhaozhou\, “Has the dog buddha nature\, or not?”\nZhou replied\, “Yes.”\nThe student said\, “Then why did he jump into that skin bag?”\nZhou responded\, “Even though he knew better\, he just couldn’t help it.” \n—Book of Serenity\, Case 18 \nSo opens Zhaozhou’s Dog\, the well-known dharmakaya koan\, one often given as a first koan to practitioners. In the second half of the koan\, when asked again if a dog has buddha nature\, Zhou replies\, “No!” \nFrom Zen’s point of view\, the universe is utterly simple: there are only two bits. One is form\, or phenomenon\, and the other is no-form\, or emptiness. Presence and Absence\, as translated by David Hinton. \nBut these two parts are not in the least separate. Rather\, they are dependent on each other for their existence. The Heart Sutra\, Zen’s foundational text\, reads: “Form is emptiness and emptiness is form/Form is exactly emptiness and emptiness is exactly form.” What a lovely painting of a rice cake! \nAs soon as we say “form” or “emptiness\,” we divide the universe into two with ideas of how things should be. And we go on dividing\, opening a gap between ourselves and others\, between ourselves and ourselves\, and between ourselves and the world. This creates all sorts of mischief\, and sometimes pain. “People are disturbed not by things themselves\,” writes the Stoic Epictetus\, “but by the views they take of them.” We know that but we can’t help ourselves from doing it. Neither can my dog. \nThe world of “Yes” is hairy\, sweaty\, muddy\, shitty. Oh\, did I mention flatulence? My dog farts\, especially when we are watching TV. And she is an obsessive ball chaser; she has at least ten old tennis balls scattered around the backyard. “Yes” invites us to realize the intrinsic purity and beauty in the world of messiness. Messiness\, too\, is our original nature. It is not wrong. \nIn the world of “No\,” there is not one thing. Everything is a No-thing. Even “No” has no meaning outside of “No.” At some point 2\,500 years ago\, somebody made up a word to point to this thing of No-ness: buddha nature. The bouncy\, messy\, happy skin bag; this is the skin of both No and Yes. It is our skin. \nOur recent Luminaries guest Henry Shukman recounts a story of his solo retreat in the mountains of New Mexico. \nI was having a restless time. My brain was in recovery from a concussion\, the current state of US politics was dire\, and our retreat center down in Santa Fe was having difficulties—all of which made me uneasy\, sometimes angry\, sometimes sad. \nHe sat\, focusing on a thanka of Green Tara\, and something switched for him. \nAgain\, it struck me: Anger was 100 percent fine\, from a goddess’ point of view. From the perspective of awakening\, anger was not a problem. It was “empty”—transparent and boundless…\n\nGoing outside to gaze at the mountains\, he realized that “…all [is] a single arising\, a single body\, a single cloud\, a single wonder\, a single flash of lightening… Nameless. Marvelous. Empty. And here.” \nTranslator’s note: What most recently caught my eye during a review of this koan with a friend was the final line quoted above and Koun Yamada’s lengthy commentary on it. The Chinese characters read: \n(為) Doing (他) Other (知) Knowledge (而) Even so (故) Intentional (犯) Transgress \nOne translation is “Because he knows yet deliberately transgresses (Cleary).” The Pacific Zen translation is beautifully direct: “It knew what it was doing and that’s why it dogged (Sutherland\, Tarrant).” Yamada’s is: “Because he committed himself intentionally.” \nIn discussing the koan\, Yamada mentions that some people get hung up on whether a dog is capable of a crime or transgression. That\, he says\, is completely missing the point. The key is to directly appreciate the dog-ness of the dog. \nWhoof! Yap! \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-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: Without Comparing Yourself With Others
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWithout comparing yourself with others\, take a step. “But what will they think of me?” You might ask. \n“Ah\, who cares?” We live for a short time and every moment is sacred\, every moment free. And then we have the idea of kawai—Everyone is cute like Hello Kitty\, and having a good time being themselves. \nWalking in the moonlight\, walking after the moon has set\, a solemn step and another. \nHere’s the koan about what happens when you stop comparing: \nShoushan said to his assembly\, “If you get it the first time you hear it\, you’ll teach buddhas and ancestors. If you get it the second time you hear it\, you’ll teach gods and humans. If you don’t get it until the third time\, you won’t even be able to save Yourself.” \nA student asked\, “When did you get it?”\nShoushan said\, “The moon sets at midnight\, I walk alone through the town.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 76 \n—John Tarrant Roshi \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-59/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Not an Inch of Grass for 10\,000 Miles
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-46/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Magu Circles the Chan Seat
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nMagu\, carrying his staff with metal rings\, went to Changqing. He walked around his Chan seat three times. He shook his staff once\, and stood there looking haughty.\nChangqing said\, “Right\, right!”\nThen Magu went to Nanquan and walked around his Chan seat three times. He shook his staff once\, and stood there looking haughty.\nNanquan said\, “Wrong\, wrong!”\nMagu said\, “Changqing said ‘Right!’ Why do you say\, ‘Wrong!’?”\nNanquan said\, “Changqing is right\, but you are wrong. What you are doing is just spinning in the wind. It will come to nothing in the end.” \n—Book of Equanimity Case 16 \nAs I’ve been spending time with Magu and Changqing and Nanquan\, Juzhi came along to join in. Well\, actually it was more Juzhi’s attendant than Juzhi. But it was also Juzhi who filled in for both Changqing and Nanquan\, though he said\, “wrong” first\, then\, “right.” Whether it’s “right” first or “wrong” first\, either way the point is the same. Then Fayan came along with the God of Fire seeking fire. Another case where “wrong” came first. \nI’ve had my own experience where “wrong” came first. I’ll be talking about that and connecting the dots between these other koans 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-39/
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:20250512T180000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is on break\, hosting Pacific Zen Luminaries today. Join us again on June 2nd!\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-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250512T180000
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SUMMARY:ZEN LUMINARIES: Original Love – Jon Joseph in Conversation with Author & Zen Teacher Henry Shukman
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nHenry Shukman joins Jon Joseph to discuss his writing and how his history of both studying and teaching Zen has influenced his work and life. He will read from his memoir One Blade of Grass as well as his latest book\, Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening. \nHenry wrote his first book at the age of 19 and worked as a full-time writer for many years\, writing several award-winning and bestselling books of poetry and fiction. His poems have been published in the New Yorker\, Guardian\, Sunday Times (UK) and London Review of Books\, and his essays in the New York Times\, Outside\, Guardian and Tricycle.  He has also taught poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts and Oxford Brookes University and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow of Poetry\, and Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust. He has an MA from Cambridge\, an M.Litt. from St Andrews. \nHenry is a teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage and has trained in various other meditation schools and practices. After a spontaneous spiritual awakening at the age of 19\, he embarked on a long journey of healing and deeper awakening\, guided by Roshis John Gaynor\, Joan Rieck\, Ruben Habito\, and Yamada Roshi\, international abbot of Sanbo Zen\, who ultimately appointed him a teacher in 2010. Since then he has been leading a growing number of practitioners on the path of awakening\, in Europe and the US. He has also been authorized to teach Mindfulness by Shinzen Young\, and is a certified dreamwork therapist. He is the Spiritual Director Emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. \nSource: https://henryshukman.com \n\n“Original Love is one of the rare books destined to inspire new and seasoned meditators alike. Drawing on his own deep experience and years of teaching\, Henry Shukman brings a lucid and refreshing cast to the fundamentals of practice\, and reveals how the loving we yearn for is always\, already here; love is intrinsic to what we are.” \n—Tara Brach\, author of Radical Acceptance \n“If you’ve ever wondered how a messed up kid like you or me might master the wisdom of Zen\, One Blade of Grass is the adventure for you. It’s great company―and after reading it\, you might recognize that you’re further along than you imagined.” \n―David Hinton\, editor and translator of The Four Chinese Classics \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/pacific-zen-luminaries-series-henry-shukman-with-jon-joseph-friends-may-12th/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: Guanyin: She Hears the Sounds of the World
DESCRIPTION:Mother’s day\, it’s Guanyin’s day.\nWhat is the role of compassion in the world?\nHer robe is the mist and the stars\, and there is no one she does not welcome.\nShe appears in koans and in dreams\, even after she has gone.\nShe is needed in a difficult time.\nThink of something you would like to say to her. \nJoin us this 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-58/
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 May 10th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-20/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Yangshan Plants His Hoe
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nGuishan asked Yangshan\, “Where have you come from?”\nYangshan said\, “I’ve come from the fields.”\n“How many people are in the fields?”\nYangshan planted his hoe in the ground and stood with his hands clasped.\nGuishan said\, “Lots of people are cutting water mallows on South Mountain.”\nYangshan picked up his hoe and left. \n—Book of Serenity Case 15 \n“Where have you come from?” is a frequently asked question in koans. Sometimes it seems like the teacher just wants to know where the person came from and sometimes the teacher seems to want to know something deeper than that. How do you tell the difference? In this conversation between Guishan and Yangshan neither of them seems to have any difficulty in knowing which is which. As a matter of fact\, they were so much on the same page that they co founded the first of the five houses of Chan of the Tang Dynasty. \nBeing able to flow back-and-forth seamlessly between form and emptiness is the integration of practice into our lives. As is Yangshan’s picking up his hoe and going to South Mountain. \nWhat is your hoe? What is your 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-38/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Finding Poland: We're Already in the Land of Awakening
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA monk asked Zhaozhou\, “The ten thousand things return to one. Where does the one return to?” Zhou said\, “When I was in Blue Province\, I made a cloth shirt. It weighed seven pounds.” \n—The Blue Cliff Record\, Case 45 \n  \nWhy do we so often wish to be somewhere else\, be somebody else? Why is awakening always over there\, just around that foreign\, mysterious corner? Our restlessly seeking mind\, even in midst of that search\, is already naturally at rest. \nA dream visited me during a retreat a few weeks ago: \nI was in a large old house\, with rich and dark wooden paneling\, standing in a hallway crowded with people. There was a kind of reception going on. I went up to one of our Pacific Zen teachers\, and told him\, “I want to go to Poland.” He said\, “Come with me\,” and took me down a hallway\, through some double doors into a large library. The library was also beautifully paneled and had a wide desk in it. Sitting behind the desk was an elderly man\, flanked by two attendants. I knew him to be a Polish poet\, but could not remember his name: was it Bukowsky\, Orlowsky? \nI sat down\, and knew I had to get permission from him if I were to get to Poland. So\, still not recalling his name\, I started to bullshit him\, saying\, “I loved your last two collections of poetry.” It was obvious he was having none of it. He said nothing\, and after some minutes gave a doubtful grunt\, got up and left. \nI then stood up\, and turned left to some windows and a French door. I opened the door and looked outside. It was a beautiful Spring day\, and in my view was a parkland with large deciduous trees and people picnicking here and there on the cut green grass. I said to myself\, “Oh\, this is Poland. This is what it is.” Later\, I recognized the man at the desk as the famous Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. \nI think in my dream Poland represented awakening. I wanted to go to the land of enlightenment.  That land was foreign and far away\, and I thought I had to work the system\, to bullshit the master\, to get there. But it didn’t work. The teacher clearly saw through me. After he left\, I had no more plan. Only then\, in going to the window and opening the doors\, did I realize I was already in the place I was seeking. \nWhere does the one return to? Is there a place to return to other than this one? This very place is the Lotus Land\, says Hakuin Ekaku. It is only here that we can know the weight of a seven-pound shirt\, the taste of honey in tea\, the sound of a lawn mower\, the light reflected on tree leaves. \nThe two monks Yantou and Xuefeng were traveling together and got snowed in on Tortoise Mountain. Yantou slept all the time while Xuefeng stayed up meditating. Yantou rolled over\, turned to his friend and said\, “Haven’t you heard that what comes in through the front gate isn’t the family treasure? You must let it flow out from your own breast to cover heaven and earth.” With that\, Xuefeng understood where the one returns to. \n—Jon Joseph \n  \nLATE RIPENESS \nNot soon\, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year\,\nI felt a door opening in me and I entered\nthe clarity of early morning. \nOne after another my former lives were departing\,\nlike ships\, together with their sorrow. \nAnd the countries\, cities\, gardens\, the bays of seas\nassigned to my brush came closer\,\nready now to be described better than they were before. \nI was not separated from people\,\ngrief and pity joined us.\nWe forget – I kept saying – that we are all children of the King. \nFor where we come from there is no division\ninto Yes and No\, into is\, was\, and will be. \nWe were miserable\, we used no more than a hundredth part\nof the gift we received for our long journey. \nMoments from yesterday and from centuries ago –\na sword blow\, the painting of eyelashes before a mirror\nof polished metal\, a lethal musket shot\, a caravel\nstaving its hull against a reef – they dwell in us\,\nwaiting for a fulfillment. \nI knew\, always\, that I would be a worker in the vineyard\,\nas are all men and women living at the same time\,\nwhether they are aware of it or not. \n—Czeslaw Milosz \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-56/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: The Pilgrim’s Way
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne foot and then the other foot\, and then again\, and suddenly we’re on a journey. Our walking transforms us; we find that it’s not so hard to be at peace inwardly. \nThis is in spite of all that arrives: threatening\, painful\, and also as bright as the peonies in spring. Every step we take is into the unknown\, however\, others have walked the way before us\, and others will come after us—how many generations\, no one knows. The pilgrimage of this life is also joyous. Yes\, joy is a marvelous\, sudden thing and rises out of the depths\, rises in us\, and then we care for the world and each other. \nThat’s what I’ve noticed. \nLet’s have a meeting about the pilgrim’s way this 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-54/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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