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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\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for April 4th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-39/
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-64/
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:20260331T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260331T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Yanyang’s One Thing
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYanyang asked Zhaozhou\, “When not a single thing is brought\, then what?”\nZhaozhou said\, “Put it down.”\nYanyang said\, “If I don’t bring a single thing\, what should I put down?”\nZhaozhou said\, “Then carry it.” \n—Book of Equanimity\, Case 57 \nThis koan is a great example of Zhaozhou’s teaching style of reflecting back to the student where they are. It reminds me of another exchange with Zhaozhou: \nA student asked Zhaozhou\,\n“For a long time I’ve heard about the stone bridge of Zhaozhou.\nBut now that I’ve come\, I see only a log across the river.”\nZhaozhou said\, “You just see the log bridge\, you don’t see the stone bridge.” \nNo yelling\, no hitting\, no questions that don’t make any sense. His teaching is short\, pithy\, down-to-earth\, and rooted in everyday life. Like a koan\, he reflects what is in front of him. \nAnother thing that comes to mind with this koan about Yanyang’s one thing is the First Truth of Buddhism\, the Truth of Suffering. If we don’t know we’re suffering\, we can’t stop suffering. Yanyang wasn’t aware of the way he was suffering by being stuck in the place of not one thing. Zhaozhou wasn’t dismissing him when he said\, “Then carry it.” He was giving the best advice he could\, though\, not thinking about giving advice\, not thinking about anything at all\, just responding. \nThen another conversation with Zhaozhou came to mind: \nA student asked\, “How should we meet difficulties when they arise?”\nZhaozhou said\, “Welcome.” \nIn telling Yanyang\, “Carry it\,” he is inviting him to welcome it\, let it in\, meet it\, turn toward it\, get to know and be intimate with it. \nWe’re told that Yanyang had an awakening at the end of his conversation with Zhaozhou. He accepted Zhaozhou’s invitation and let in the cost of clinging to that one thing of not having one thing. That’s all it takes. \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-79/
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:20260330T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Muddy Water: Love and Life in the Midst of Pain
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Zhaozhou\, “Does a newborn baby have consciousness?”\nZhou replied\, “It’s like tossing a ball on rushing waters.”\nThe student went on to ask Touzi\, “What does tossing a ball on rushing waters mean?”\nTouzi said\, “Moment by moment\, non-stop flow.” \n—Blue Cliff Record\, Case 80 \nHow do we find resilience in a world of darkness and despair? How do we get our footing\, come to laugh and love in a world filled with loss and hardship? Some people make a song of it; that’s how they enter the non-stop flow. \nMuddy Waters once said\, “Exactly I fits one shoe\, and that is the blues.” His one shoe\, his one life; it fit his music just exactly so. Soon after being born to a sharecropper family in the Delta\, McKinley ‘Muddy Waters’ Morganfield’s father ran off and his mother died\, leaving his grandmother to raise him on a cotton plantation near Clarksdale\, Mississippi. \nSelf-confident\, gracious\, and commanding on stage\, Muddy was also an oft-absent father and had a half dozen children outside his marriages. Eventually he was able to bring most of them under his roof. \nA couple of mornings ago\, I was walking through downtown Clarksdale\, searching for a breakfast place. About a third of the businesses look shuttered\, though the County Courthouse-Jail and four or five juke joints looked busy. Somehow\, this small\, rather plain rural town\, an hour and a half outside of Memphis\, became the birthplace of the blues. Countless musicians have come from there including greats like B.B. King\, Sam Cooke\, Ike Turner\, John Lee Hooker\, and Muddy. \nWe found Our Grandma’s House of Pancakes. One review complained about cockroaches crawling about the floor and wall\, saying\, “I had to take a shower when I left.” Another said the food was “cooked to perfection!” My huge plate of “fully-loaded hash browns\,” served with a plastic utensil kit\, cost about five bucks. It was good; lots of bacon fat and salt. \nFor the half century beginning in the 1920s\, six million African-Americans moved north\, going against the flow of the wide river. The Great Migration was trying to escape cotton and the Jim Crow South\, hoping to find jobs in the industrial North. They brought their music with them; to St. Louis\, Chicago\, and New York. They brought their heart and soul. \nThe gypsy woman told my mother\, before I was born\nYou got a boy child’s comin’\, gon’ be a son of a gun\nHe gonna make pretty womens jump and shout\nThen the world wanna know what this all about \n~ I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Listen here) \nThe muddy waters run deep through New Orleans. Last week\, I found myself standing on the deck of a Mississippi paddle wheeler\, originally built as a casino but turned into a tour boat. Staring into the brown waters\, I could see clouds of silt endlessly billow and swirl\, with Forster’s terns and double-breasted cormorants diving for fish unseen. The captain came on the loudspeaker\, “Kids\, I already told you once: Stop running on the deck!” \nWell I wish I was a catfish\nSwimmin’ in a oh\, deep blue sea\nI would have all you good lookin’ women\nFishin’\, fishin’ after me \nSure ‘nough\, after me\nSure ‘nough\, after me\nOh ‘nough\nOh ‘nough\nSure ‘nough \n~ Rollin’ Stone (Listen here) \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-friends-11/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 29 de marzo\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-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-22/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260329T090000
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SUMMARY:Deep Sit Sunday Zen: The Hazy Moon of Spring with John Tarrant\, Allison Atwill\, & Tess Beasley
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nMeditation can’t be praised enough.\nThe benefits of generosity and discipline\,\nprayer\, self-reflection\, and practice\,\nhave their source in meditation.\n\nWith what we gain from just one sitting\,\nall our crimes are wiped away.  \n—Hakuin Ekaku \nEnlightenment happens inside this life that we have. It’s not some other more satisfactory life with special conditions. So you set off! \nYou go through one archway\, and then you go through a second\, and then a third archway\, and eventually your worries fall away\, though you didn’t ask them to\, all desperation falls away and any cause of suffering in the mind is illuminated. Life after life you have been doing this and it’s not a surprise that you come eventually to the Buddha\, who is sitting on an ordinary zafu smiling\, and Buddha says\, “Yes\, that’s it\, you are doing it alright\, just do zazen like that!” and happiness comes over you. \nMeditation is also extra good if you do it together with friends. \nJoin us this Sunday as we take up the koan: \nThough you find clear waters ranging to the vast blue sky in autumn;\nHow can it compare with the hazy moon on a spring night?\nMost people want to have it pure white\,\nBut sweep as you will\, you cannot empty the mind.\n\n—Keizan (Aitken & Yamada translation) \n \n\nSchedule (ALL TIMES PACIFIC): \n9AM – 11AM – Meditation & Music with Open Temple Leaders \n11AM – 12PM – Meditation\, Poetry & Reflections with John Tarrant\, Allison Atwill\, Tess Beasley & Friends \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/3-29-deep-sit-sunday-zen/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260324T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260324T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Uncle Mi’s White Rabbit
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen Uncle Mi went walking with Dongshan a white rabbit dashed by in front of them.\nUncle exclaimed\, “How quick!”\nDongshan asked\, “How is that?”\n“Just as if a commoner were appointed prime minister\,” said Uncle Mi.\n“Though you are old and great\, you still say things like that!” replied Dongshan.\n“What would you say?” asked Uncle Mi.\n“Generations of nobility\, temporarily fallen into poverty\,” said Dongshan \nThis koan reminded me of another koan involving Uncle Mi and Dongshan which goes like this: \nUncle Mi was mending clothes when Dongshan asked\, “What are you doing?”\n“Mending\,” said Uncle Mi.\n“How is it going?” asked Dongshan.\n“One stitch follows another\,” said Uncle Mi.\n“We’ve been traveling together for twenty years and that’s all you have to say?” said Dongshan. “How can you be so clueless?”\n“How do you mend\, then?” asked Uncle Mi.\n“With each stitch the whole earth is spewing flames\,” said Dongshan. \nAnd then another koan involving Uncle Mi and Dongshan came along: \nWhen Dongshan was crossing a river with Uncle Mi\, he asked\, “How does one cross a river?”\n“Don’t get your feet wet\,’ said Uncle Mi.\nAt your venerable age\, how can you say such a thing!” said Dongshan.\n“How do you cross a river?” asked Uncle Mi.\n“Feet don’t get wet\,” replied Dongshan. \nCan you feel how these koans are the same? Can you feel how they are different? Can you find this in your life? \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-80/
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:20260323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on March 30th. 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-friends-12/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260322T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260322T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant\, Allison Atwill & Tess Beasley: Things Are Not As They Appear\, Nor Are They Otherwise
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIn any given moment\, we think we know what’s what\, but then there’s this other thing happening\, the big lumbering aurochs that runs the universe is just ambling along beneath the surface. \nDiscrepancies appear between our ideas and experience\, uncertainty seeps in\, which is far more interesting. \nYou’re supposed to be happy but you feel sick\, or you laugh when you’re sad. It’s why buying gizmos does not console us\, because the big lumbering aurochs doesn’t care about gizmos. \nAwakening is about befriending the aurochs\, even praising it. \nJoin us Sunday as we explore a famous line from the Lankavatara Sutra: \nThings are not as they appear\, nor are they otherwise. \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-8/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260322T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260322T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T075745
CREATED:20260217T161343Z
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 22 de marzo\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-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-23/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260321T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260321T100000
DTSTAMP:20260424T075745
CREATED:20260227T133035Z
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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\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for March 21st here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-38/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260319T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260319T173000
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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-65/
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:20260317T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260317T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Longtan\, Renowned Far and Wide – Gateless Barrier 28
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDeshan visited Longtan and questioned him sincerely far into the night.\nIt grew late and Longtan said\, “Why don’t you retire?”\nDeshan made his bows and lifted the blinds to withdraw but was met by darkness.\nTurning back he said\, “It is dark outside.” \nLongtan lit a paper candle and handed it to Deshan.\nDeshan was about to take it when Longtan blew it out.\nAt this\, Deshan had a sudden realization and made bows.\nLongtan said\, “What truth did you discern?”\nDeshan said\, “From now on I will not doubt the words of an old priest who is renowned everywhere under the sun.” \nThe next day Longtan took the high seat before his assembly and said\, “I see a brave fellow among you monks. His fangs are like a sword-tree. His mouth is like a blood-bowl. Give him a blow and he won’t turn his head. Someday he will climb the highest peak and establish our Way there.” \nDeshan brought his notes on the Diamond Sutra before the Dharma Hall and held up a torch\, saying\, “Even though you have exhausted the abstruse doctrines\, it is like placing a hair in vast space. Even though you have learned all the secrets of the world\, it is like letting a single drop of water fall into an enormous valley.” And he burned up all his notes. Then\, making his bows\, he took leave of his teacher. \nWumen’s comment on this case feels like it should be part of the case. It goes like This: \nBefore Deshan crossed the barrier from his native province\, his mind burned and his mouth sputtered. Full of arrogance\, he went south to exterminate the doctrine of a special transmission outside the sutras. When he reached the road to Li-chou\, he sought to buy refreshments from an old woman. \nThe old woman said\, “Your Reverence\, what sort of literature do you have there in your cart?”\nDeshan said\, “Notes and commentaries on the Diamond Sutra.”\nThe old woman said\, “I hear the Diamond Sutra says\, ‘Past mind cannot be grasped\, present mind cannot be grasped\, future mind cannot be grasped.’ Which mind does Your Reverence intend to refresh?”\n\nDeshan was dumbfounded and unable to answer.\nHe did not expire completely under her words\, however\, but asked\, “Is there a teacher of Zen Buddhism in this neighborhood?”\nThe old woman said\,“The priest Longtan is about half a mile from here.” \nArriving at Longtan’s place\, Deshan was utterly defeated. His earlier words certainly did not match his later ones. Longtan disgraced himself in his compassion for his son. Finding a bit of a live coal in the other\, he took up muddy water and drenched him\, destroying everything at once. \nViewing the matter dispassionately\, you can see it was all a farce. \nLast week we spent time with the eighty-year-old Deshan. This week we’re looking back at the younger Deshan\, perhaps about forty years old. At that time\, he very much thought he knew the last word of Zen and was on a campaign to teach others what it was and what it wasn’t. It’s nice to have an opportunity to appreciate how the practice keeps on going and how different the older\, more mature Deshan was than his younger self. \nBut what does Wumen mean when he says\, “Longtan disgraced himself in his compassion for his son.”? What was the muddy water that he drenched Deshan with? How is it a farce? \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-81/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on March 30th. 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-friends-14/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260315T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260315T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is ON BREAK today\, and will return on March 22nd. We hope you join us then!\n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends-7/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260315T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260315T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T075746
CREATED:20260217T161426Z
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 15 de marzo\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-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-24/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260310T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T075746
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Deshan Carries His Bowls
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne day\, Deshan descended to the dining hall\, bowls in hand. Xuefeng asked him\, “Where are you going with your bowls in hand\, Old Teacher? The bell has not rung\, and the drum has not sounded.” Deshan turned and went back to his room. \nXuefeng brought up this matter with Yantou. Yantou said\, “Deshan\, great as he is\, does not yet know the last word.” \nHearing about this\, Deshan sent for Yantou and asked\, “Don’t you approve of this old monk?”\nYantou whispered his meaning. Deshan said nothing further. \nNext day\, when Deshan took the high seat before his gathering\, his presentation was very different from usual. Yantou came to the front of the hall\, rubbing his hands and laughing loudly\, saying\, “How delightful! Our Old Boss has got hold of the last word. From now on\, no one under heaven can outdo him!” \nThis koan also appears in the Gateless Barrier as case thirteen. It’s interesting when the same koan appears in two different collections. The koans in the Book of Equanimity were originally collected by Hongzhi one hundred years before Wumen used it in the Gateless Barrier collection. These collections are like playlists\, the favorite “tunes” of the person who was making the collection. This “tune” would seem to have been popular for over 100 years. It makes you wonder what it was that made it so popular. \nOne of the points that stands out for me is that it is one of the few examples of a teacher learning something. I am assuming that Deshan’s talk the next day was different in a good way because he had learned something. Teaching is learning\, it is a practice. In one version of this koan\, when Deshan called Yantou in\, he asks Yantou\, “Do you have a problem with this old student.” I like that. Someone once said that the only difference between a student and a teacher is that a teacher knows there is no difference. \nDo you think there’s a difference? \nThe story involves a cook\, his best friend and their meditation teacher. The cook’s name was Xuefeng. He’d been practicing meditation for a long time; now with his third teacher\, whose name was Deshan. Xuefeng had problems with his previous two teachers. At the place he was practicing before Deshan’s place\, the teacher there suggested he leave and go to Deshan’s place\, after Xuefeng had dumped all of the rice for the meal for all of the people onto the ground in response to the teacher’s question about whether he separated the rice from the dirt or the dirt from the rice. \nXuefeng’s best friend at Deshan’s place was named Yantou and though younger than Xuefeng he had a deeper understanding of Zen\, which is to say\, a deeper understanding of meditation. That’s what the word “Zen” literally means\, “meditation.” Working again as a cook\, as he had with his two previous teachers\, felt good to him. He liked cooking\, it gave him something to hold onto and focus on; gathering vegetables\, boiling water\, cutting carrots. He had somewhat of a rigid character structure and feeling the need to have something to hold onto was part of that for him. \nOne day as Xuefeng was preparing the meal\, very busy and absorbed in what he was doing\, he noticed that his teacher\, Deshan\, was coming down from his room carrying his eating bowls\, as if he expected to have a meal. But the meal was not ready. Xuefeng had not rung the bell that signaled the meal being ready\, what was his teacher doing coming down now? \nBeing of a rigid character structure\, Xuefeng responded to his teacher in a rigid way and called out somewhat disrespectfully\, “Where are you going? I haven’t rung the bell to signal that the meal is ready!” Deshan stopped walking\, turned around\, and returned to his room without saying a word. Shortly after that Yantou came into the cooking area to check on his friend and see how things were going. Xuefeng told him\, with some relish\, about what had just happened with Deshan. Yantou shook his head and replied\, “As good as he is as a Zen teacher\, Deshan doesn’t yet know the last word of Zen.” \nOf the 10 basic precepts of Buddhism\, gossiping is said to incur the most negative consequences\, the most negative karma. That is surprising\, especially given what the other precepts are: killing\, stealing\, lying\, etc. The explanation is that though each instance of gossiping incurs only a slight negative consequence\, we do it so much that the negative consequence from gossiping adds up to the point that it outweighs the negative consequences of all the other precepts combined. \nThat said\, what Yantou said to Xuefeng about Deshan not knowing the last word of Zen got around the place pretty quickly and before the day was out Deshan had summoned Yantou to his quarters. When Yantou arrived Deshan asked him if he had a problem with the way he was teaching. Yantou responded by whispering something into Deshan’s ear and Deshan nodded his head and dismissed Yantou. We might wonder what it was he whispered to have brought about such a result. \nLater that night\, after Deshan had finished with his regular evening talk\, which we are told was very different from his usual talk\, Yantou jumped up and yelled\, “Wonderful! Wonderful! Deshan has finally gotten the last word of Zen!” And that is the end of the story/dream. Your dream. What do you make of it? Which character calls out to you the most? What is it that puzzles you the most? What is it that reminds you of you the most? \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-82/
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:20260309T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Just This. This.
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nAs Dongshan was about to go\, he asked\, “After your death\, if people ask whether I have your portrait (grasped your teaching)\, how should I respond?” \nAfter a long pause\, Yunyan answered\, “Just this. This.”  \n—Book of Serenity\, Case 49 \nTurning sharply left into a grove of eucalyptus we entered the one-lane road that leads down to the Zen farm. My daughter\, who has a few weeks off as she decides what graduate program to attend in the fall\, is on a two-week meditation retreat. She met us in the parking lot\, and soon we were hiking down a gravel path to the beach. At the beach she went for a quick dip in the frigid Pacific\, dried off and\, after hanging out a bit\, we walked back to get her to the evening meal on time. \nPart way up the trail\, our dog\, who was on leash\, jumped the resident bobcat which ran into a small side temple. To the left of us was Redwood Creek\, thick in willows and gushing with new rains. On the right were the winter gardens of the farm\, planted with fava bean cover crop\, and beyond them chaparral blanketed the slopes of the creek’s gulch. \nThe retreat includes a study period\, and my daughter had picked from the library A Flower Falls\, a translation of Haku’un Yasutani’s commentary on Dogen’s richly poetic Genjo Koan. I have been working with the Five Ranks commentary by Yasutani\, our ancestral teacher\, over the past year and have become pretty familiar with his world view. \nMy daughter said she was surprised at how critical Yasutani was of his own Soto School of Zen and his strong advocacy of an embodied kensho experience. Thinking the need to explain Yasutani\, I started to tell her about the differences between the Rinzai koan and the Soto shikantaza schools. But almost immediately my words sounded small and flat to my ears. So I stopped explaining and just said\, “They’re all nice people.” \nWe continued walking without speaking for a time. I gave her a hug as we moved up the trail toward the zendo and dining hall. Soon enough\, the magic of the farm returned; the ambient light of the hall mixed with the smell of vegetables cooking in shoyu. \nNot long after Dongshan left his teacher\, he saw his own image reflected in the water while crossing a creek and wrote: \nLooking through others’ eyes is not necessary; we only create distance.\nI now go my own way entirely alone\, yet I meet it everywhere.\nNow it is just who I am\, at the same time I am not what it is.\nWhen we come to understand\, for the first time we know this true suchness. \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-friends-15/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260308T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260308T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Relying on The Mysterious
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Ta-lung\, “What is the mysterious?”  The master replied:\n“The breeze brings the water’s voice\nClose to my pillow;\nThe moon carries the mountain’s shadow\nNear my bed.” \nThe mysterious means that you stand on what has no ground. \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-5-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260308T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260308T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T075746
CREATED:20260217T161501Z
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 8 de marzo\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-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-25/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260307T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260307T100000
DTSTAMP:20260424T075746
CREATED:20260227T132952Z
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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\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for March 7th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-37/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T173000
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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-66/
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:20260303T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T075746
CREATED:20260217T172211Z
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Yunyan's Great Compassion
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunyan asked Daowu\, “How does the Bodhisattva Guanyin use all those hands and eyes?\nDaowu answered\, “It is like someone in the middle of the night reaching behind their head for the pillow.”\nYunyan said\, “I understand.”\n“How do you understand it?” asked Daowu\n“All over the body are hands and eyes.” said Yunyan\nDaowu said “That is very well-expressed\, but it is only eight-tenths of the answer.”\nYunyan asked “How would you say it\, Elder Brother?”\nDaowu said “All throughout the body are hands and eyes.” \nThis koan appears in both the Blue Cliff Record and the Book of Equanimity. In the Blue Cliff Record it is entitled\, “Yunyan’s Hands and Eyes.” In the Book of Equanimity it is called\, “Yunyan’s Great Compassion.” \nIt’s interesting that Yunyan gets top billing over Daowu as it would seem that Daowu got the upper hand on Yunyan in appreciating the difference between all over the body and all throughout the body. Isn’t one deeper than the other? All over the body is on the surface\, not on the inside. You might think that the koan should be called “Daowu’s Great Compassion” or “Daowu’s Hands and Eyes.” After all\, Daowu is Yunyan’s elder brother so…doesn’t that mean he knows more? \nJust to make things a bit more interesting\, the story also appears in the Record of Yunyan. Though there is no title\, it is interesting to notice that the positions are  reversed and that it is Daowu who asks Yunyan the first question about hands and eyes. \nDaowu asked\, “‘The Bodhisattva of Compassion has thousands of eyes—which is the most important one?” Yunyan said\, “It’s like when a person reaches out for their pillow in the middle of the night.”                            Daowu said\, “I understand.”                                                                                    \nYunyan asked\, “What do you understand?”                                                               \nDaowu said\, “There are eyes all over one’s body.”                                                    \nYunyan replied\, “You said that so directly\, but you are only 80% correct.”              \nDaowu asked\, “How do you understand this?”                                                          \nYunyan said\, “There are eyes all over one’s body.” \nYamada’s translation in both the Blue Cliff Record and the Book of Equanimity has Yunyan saying\, “The whole body is hands and eyes.” Then Daowu saying\, “All throughout the body are hands and eyes.” Aren’t they saying the same thing as in the version of the Record of Yunyan? \nThen the donkey and the well came along and asked\, “Isn’t the difference between eyes all over the body and eyes all through the body the same as the donkey sees the well and the well sees the donkey?” \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-83/
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:20260302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260302T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T075746
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Taking Refuge in Awakening\, the Way and Our Companions
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nI take refuge in awakening\nI take refuge in the way\nI take refuge in my companions \nThese are the Three Refuge Vows\, the first of sixteen that an aspirant takes in receiving the precepts before an assembly of their Sangha. It is a celebration we call Refuge\, and is essentially a lay ordination: the one taking Refuge receives a dharma name and the small robe called a rakusu. The ceremony is usually joined at sesshin\, but in unusual circumstances\, held remotely. \nThe Refuge ceremony begins with an invocation: \nWhen knowing stops\, when thoughts about who we are fall away\, vast space opens up and love appears. Anything that gets in the way of understanding this is a cause of suffering and something to refrain from. \nMoment by moment\, thought appears\, the earth appears\, we appear. When we test each bit of life against the heart\, we find we cannot reject anything\, for we are the only hands and eyes that eternity has. With our virtues\, our failures\, and our imperfections\, this is the body we take refuge in; this is what we offer to the world. \nThe aspirant works for a year\, or more\, with their teacher reviewing each of the sixteen vows\, which include the Three Pure Vows (I vow to do no harm/to do good/to do good for others) and the Ten Bodhisattva vows (I vow not to kill/to steal/to misuse sex/to lie/to misuse drugs/to gossip maliciously/to praise myself at the expense of others/to be stingy/to indulge in anger/or to disparage awakening\, the way and my companions.) \nEach of these are treated as a koan: what is their inconceivable nature and how do we realize that truth in our lives? The only way we can investigate these koans is to “test each bit of our lives against our own heart.” \nThe invocation goes on: By their nature\, vows are not things we hold perfectly. Vows are the bridge we build between the spacious world and the things we do every day. They encourage us to follow our questions when they arise. Underlying our vows is compassion for everything that has the courage to live. \n—Jon Joseph \nJoin Jon Joseph and Friends as we hold a refuge ceremony on Monday night! \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-friends-13/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: It's Not So Hard
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nOn a dusky evening late in Winter\, early in Spring\, a woman found herself entering a temple. Just why is hard to know. \nBut a seat had waited for her\, and as she tucked in her legs and heard the chorus of soft breathing\, her own breath seemed to join in\, and this intrigued her. \nThen teacher began to speak: \nThere’s a Buddha of infinite light in your own body\, he said. \nOnce that Buddha appears\, mountains\, rivers\, trees\, and the whole earth suddenly shine with a great light. To see this\, you have to look inside your own heart. \nThis\, too\, was intriguing. That doesn’t sound so hard\, thought the woman. \nJoin us Sunday for a tale of awakening to the ordinary brilliance of each and everything. It’s nice to remember it’s not so hard. \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-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260301T113000
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 1 de marzo\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-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-26/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Huangbo’s Brewers Dregs
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nHuangbo said\, “You’re all gobblers of brewers dregs. \nIf you run around like this\, where will you meet today? \nHaven’t you figured out that in the whole country there is not a single Chan teacher?”\nSomeone stepped forward and asked\, “But what about all those places where people are guiding students and leading gatherings?”\nHuangbo said\, “I didn’t say no Chan\, only no Chan teachers.”  \nHuangbo originated this expression\, “Gobblers of brewer’s dregs” which became a popular saying used to refer to people whose meditation practice involved imitating what they read in texts and what they heard from teachers\, but never making it their own\, never integrating it into their lives. The literal meaning is that you eat leftovers from making rice wine and then think that you have had a taste of the real thing. \nHuangbo’s warning about running around like this\, going on pilgrimage\, seeking wisdom\, was something that he had learned from his own experience. Like most young monks\, following his ordination Huangbo went looking for a teacher. Finding the right teacher didn’t come easy\, but he learned as he went. Eventually he met a laywoman who suggested the person he was looking for was Mazu. Mazu was living a thousand kilometers to the southeast. By the time Huangbo got there\, Mazu had died. Although Mazu was gone\, his dharma heir Baizhang was a mere two days’ walk away. In their first meeting: \nBaizhang said to Huangbo\, “Magnificent\, imposing\, where have you come from?”\nHuangbo replied\, “Magnificent\, imposing\, from the mountains.”\nBaizhang asked\, “Magnificent\, imposing\, why have you come?”\nHuangbo replied\, “Magnificent\, imposing\, not for anything else.” \nIt is said that Huangbo was 7 feet tall\, but I don’t think that’s what Baizhang was referring to when he said\, “Magnificent\, imposing.” When Huangbo replied\, “Magnificent\, imposing” I think he was talking about everything. Everything is magnificent and imposing if we get out of the way of our thinking. Especially the thinking that says that we lack something and we need to get it from someplace outside of ourselves. Huangbo wasn’t looking for anything at that moment\, not wisdom\, not a teacher\, “not for anything else” other than that moment. \nDeshan was an expert on texts\, which he pulled behind him in a cart. Upon his realization he said it wasn’t about texts\, “I will never doubt any more what the old master has said to me.” He was not talking about Lungtan\, the old teacher who blew out his candle\, allowing him to see the light in the dark. He was talking about the “old master” who is reading these words right now. \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-68/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T193000
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SUMMARY:PACIFIC ZEN LUMINARIES: Japanese Butoh & the Heart of Zen – Jon Joseph & Friends in Conversation with Denise Fujiwara
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDenise Fujiwara is one of Canada’s leading contemporary dance artists. \nShe has won numerous awards for her highly creative choreography and dance\, most recently in 2025 the Canada Council’s Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts and Lifetime Achievement\, recognizing “the highest artistic merit and career achievement by a professional artist in music\, theatre\, or dance.” \nDenise’s nearly half-century in performance dance began in the 1970s as Canadian champion on the Rhythmic Gymnastics National Team. She went on to co-found the Toronto Independent Dance Enterprise (TIDE)\, where she performed for over a decade. In 1991 she founded Fujiwara Dance Inventions to support her solo performances that toured throughout Canada\, the US\, Europe\, South America\, and Asia. And in 1997 helped found CanAsian Dance\, where she remained involved for twenty-five years. \nSome of her many original performances have been influenced by the avant-garde Japanese dance called Butoh\, which she began studying under Tokyo master artist Natsu Nakajima in the early 1990s. \n“Butoh\,” she writes\, “challenged the very foundations of my understanding of what dance is.” \nHer singular performance known as Eunoia\, a multimedia adaptation of Christian Bök’s award winning book of poetry\, sold out its Toronto debut\, was nominated for several awards\, and continues to tour ten years later. \nDenise has been an active member of the Pacific Zen Institute for nearly fifteen years. On retreat with PZI\, she often leads participants in an exploration of the embodiment of Zen through her lens of contemporary dance. \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.
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/luminaries-denise-fujiwara-26/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Monday Zen is ON BREAK for Pacific Zen Luminaries. Join us next week!\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-friends/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260222T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260222T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T075746
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 22 de febrero\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-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-17/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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