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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
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Nanquan's Cat – Equanimity Case 9
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne day at Nanquan’s\, students of the eastern and western halls were arguing over a cat. Nanquan held up the cat and said\, “If you can say something\, I won’t kill it.” No one could speak\, so Nanquan cut the cat in two.\n                                                                                                          \n That evening\, Zhaozhou returned from a trip and Nanquan brought up what had happened. Zhaozhou took off his sandals\, put them on top of his head\, and walked out. Nanquan said\, “If you had been here\, you’d have saved the cat.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 9 \nWhat came to me as I started keeping company with this koan was the first precept about killing. I can’t think of any other koans in which something is literally killed. Lots of people experience the “great death\,” “killed” by their teacher’s words or actions\, but none literally: It is their relationship to their ideas about themselves and the world that gets killed. \nI did come across a story about an old teacher named Chan Master Fori\, also known as Dahui\, who is credited with innovating the koan meditation practice. So\, a well known and respected teacher. The name “Fori” was given to him by the Emperor in recognition of his excellence as a teacher\, and it means “Buddha Sun.” \nFori was having tea with a group when he saw a cat coming\, and tossed a dove from his sleeve\, giving it to the cat\, which took it and went away. Fori said\, “Excellent!” It’s not exactly the same as Nanquan killing the cat\, but… \nWhat came next to keep me company is a story from the Bible called The Judgment of Solomon\, in which Solomon rules with two women who both claim to be the mother of a child. Solomon orders the baby to be cut in half\, with each woman to receive one half. The first accepts the compromise as fair\, but the second begs Solomon to give the baby to her rival\, preferring the baby to live\, even without her. Solomon orders the baby given to the second woman\, her love being selfless\, as opposed to the first woman’s selfish disregard for the baby’s actual wellbeing. \nWe don’t know exactly what the monks were arguing about in regards to that cat. It would be easy to assume\, since they were monks from different halls\, that they were arguing about where the cat belonged—perhaps they had a mouse problem. \nSome commentators note that monastic communities of the time were divided into two parts. One part devoted themselves to meditation and formal traditional spiritual practice and the other worked to support the monastery as their main practice\, in the fields and in the kitchens. As you might imagine\, they could have different ideas about what “practice” was. Perhaps they were arguing about whether the cat had Buddha nature or not. Whatever they were arguing about doesn’t matter\, really. What matters is that they could not respond. \nHave you ever found yourself in a situation where you couldn’t respond? This koan is an opportunity to look into that. The stakes don’t have to be as high as the life or death of a cat to create a situation in which we get stuck. \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-33/
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: The Mysterious Co-Mingling of Our Lives
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunmen\, teaching the community\, said\, “The old Buddha and a pillar embrace—how available are they to each other?”  He answered for them\,  “On South Mountain clouds gather\, on North Mountain rain falls.”\n\n—The Blue Cliff Record\, Case 83 \nThis morning\, I woke in the dark to the delicious sound of rain on the roof. Late in the season\, we in California are getting another series of atmospheric rivers—those long narrow storms heavy with warm\, moist air\, sometimes called the pineapple express—which will bring several inches of rain to the green foothills and drop several feet of snow on the divides and basins of the High Sierra. \nThe sound reminded me of years ago when I was in sesshin\, awake at night listening to the sound of heavy dewdrops falling from the eves outside the window. How utterly splendid was the sound of each drop before it hit. But I wander. \nClouds gather on South Mountain while rain falls on North Mountain. It may be inconceivable to connect the two. Koun Yamada\, our ancestral teacher\, cautions against it. “When we hear about clouds on South Mountain and rain on North Mountain the temptation is all too great to conclude that there is some connection between the two. And as soon as we do that\, we are caught up in concepts and are far indeed from the spirit of the koan. We have been caught in the trap which Yunmen has laid for us.” His advice is to wonder at the thusness of each: how wonderful the clouds\, how amazing the rain. \nBut maybe Yunmen’s “trap” is actually an invitation to embrace that which is irrationally linked and to explore the deeper\, more mysterious relationships in our lives. Like the old Buddha and the pillar\, to what degree are we open and vulnerable to the people and things around us? That which seems fractured may actually be part of a greater whole. We need not explain it; we can just live it. \nEd Espe Brown\, the Soto priest and author of No Recipe: Cooking as Spiritual Practice\, relates a story about the famous Italian chef Massimo Bottura. One day an assistant chef came in and confessed he had dropped and broken a whole tray of lemon tarts. Instead of throwing out the broken and fractured tarts\, Bottura folded them into a lemon pudding\, and it has since become one of the favorite desserts at his Osteria Francescana. \nOne time Baizhang was walking outside with his teacher\, Mazu\, when they flushed a brace of ducks. The teacher asked\, “Where did they go?” Zhang replied\, “They flew away.” The teacher grabbed his nose and twisted it\, saying\, “When did they ever fly away?” Zhang returned to his room\, and a monk found him weeping. Later\, the monk came back and Zhang was laughing. The monk asked him about it\, and Zhang said\, “Before I was crying\, and now I’m laughing.” The ducks and his nose shared an inconceivable co-mingling\, both in laughing and in crying. \nLast week\, I spoke with an old friend\, who informed me he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. I had recognized some decline in him in the past year\, but the news was very saddening. Going forward\, we agreed to check in regularly. Later\, I went to a wonderful birthday dinner with friends\, and afterward we all went to a club to listen to some amazing folk and blues guitar. It was fantastic. So sad and so fun\, co-mingling. \nXuetou\, himself an old Buddha\, writes in his appreciatory verse on this koan: \nIn suffering happiness\nIn happiness\, suffering\n \nPerhaps just because it is fractured\, life somehow works. \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-50/
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: It’s Going to Be Alright
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIt rained in the night. \nI went out by the fire to hear it on the roof. \nA front is coming in from the Pacific. \nGeese call on the wing\, as they do. \nThe mysterious great horned owls \npractice their mystery as they do. \nAlso Washington has gone to hell\, \nas it does. \n2 ravens circle me and investigate. \nIt’s going to be alright. \nLike everyone else\, the ravens\, the river otters\, \nthe worried people\, you will be alright too. \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-51/
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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 March 15th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-19/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Baizhang’s Fox
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThere is a fine line between observing the self\, selfing the self and dissociation. Basically\, in dissociation there is a lack of connection and there lies the difference. Observing the mind in meditation enhances connection\, it does not sever it. \nIt is a common mistake to imagine that meditation leads to a state of serenity in all situations. What meditation does lead us to is being more who we really are and there is a certain equanimity that comes with that. In this koan\, the old man is suffering from the belief that it is possible to sever the chains of karma. That it is possible to always move through life with serenity\, unaffected by the world around him. \nUpon closer observation\, over a long time—five hundred lifetimes\, the story tells us—he comes to notice the cost of his belief and instead of leaving\, as he has done so many times before\, he stays. He stays after the talk\, and he stays in his life\, just as it is\, just as he is and he discovers freedom. \nWhat do you notice when you stay and don’t leave? What do you notice when you leave? \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-32/
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on March 17th. 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/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: How to Survive Interesting Times
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nYou can’t ignore the cruelty and you can’t panic and think your life is over. \nAlso\, strangely\, we can’t escape to Mars. \nGetting to Mars isn’t really getting into the universe. We enter reality by becoming aware of our own thoughts and feelings. Kindness for those we meet along the way is good\, too. Love. Modesty in what we can achieve is good. Accuracy and honesty are good. \nWe are here for a short time and we can love each other. Poetry and art are good too. \nIt’s good to know that your own life can be beautiful in all kinds of times. \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
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Loving Your Life
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nQuick\, don’t get ready!\n\n—Miscellaneous Koans \nLingyun was wandering in the mountains and became lost in his walking. He rounded a bend and saw peach blossoms on the other side of the valley. This sight awakened him and he wrote this poem: \nFor thirty years I searched for a master swordsman\,\nhow many times did the leaves fall\,\nand the branches burst into bud?\nBut from the moment I saw the peach blossoms\,\nI’ve had no doubts. \n—Miscellaneous Koans Case 37 \nLife Practice\nSpiritual practice/Zen practice is life practice\, a laboratory for paying attention to what arises in the day to day of our living. Your life is a gift. In welcoming the gift\, you participate in the great flux\, the endless changes that living brings. \nIt is uncertain how or where a gift might come. Arising from a source not known\, a gift is a surprise to the one who receives. The people you meet\, the opportunities that come as you arise from the unknown source. Surprise! Doors close\, other doors open. Who knew? At times when you are uncertain where to turn or what to do\, a path opens and you take the next step. \nIn meditation and with koans it is much like this. It is best to allow meditation to come to you\, you will meditate as you meditate. Too\, koans will come to you. No need to figure them out or explain them to yourself. What will come\, will come\, as you open to meditation\, koans and life. This life practice is simply to notice and pay attention to what arises here in this moment. \nThe bottom line? You are here. Your practice is to notice\, to pay attention. And what you notice is never what you expected. This gift of life\, from the moment you are born until you die\, is unexpected\, a surprise. \nAs you are opened by life’s surprises\, your heart will recognize something beyond surprise\, beyond imagining: you are not separate. Indeed you live\, breath and have your being in relationship to everything else. So\, one day Lingyun went out into the mountains\, losing his way. He rounded a corner and saw peach blossoms in full bloom across the valley. From that moment on he had no doubts. There was no one to harbor doubt. It was just this. He was awake. Who can prepare for that? So\, “Quick\, don’t get ready!” \nPaying Attention\nI remember time and again being called out by teachers in elementary school. They wrote notes home\, put it in their comments on my report cards\, “Does not pay attention in class.” There is a style of attention that is alert and focused\, the sort of attention that learns multiplication tables\, hears directions for the next assignment\, sticks to the task at hand. Yes\, and elementary school teachers like that sort of attention. However\, attention can go the other way. Alert\, yes\, and open\, casting a wide swath\, noticing connections and relationships as things arise\, including my place in the dance of things. \nIn her most famous poem\, Mary Oliver comes with big questions: \nWho made the world?\nWho made the swan\, and the black bear? \nOnly to be drawn out of speculation into life\, as it come to her in a grasshopper: \nThis grasshopper\, I mean —\nthe one who has flung herself out of the grass\,\nthe one who is eating sugar out of my hand\,\nwho is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down —\nwho is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.\nNow she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.\nNow she snaps her wings open\, and floats away. \nShe brings it home confessing that she does not know much about much; prayer\, paying attention\, on how to be idle and blessed…the very actions that have made up her day: \nI don’t know exactly what a prayer is.\nI do know how to pay attention\, how to fall down\ninto the grass\, how to kneel down in the grass\,\nhow to be idle and blessed\, how to stroll through the fields\,\nwhich is what I have been doing all day. \nMy 6th grade self rejoices\, she does not know how to pay attention\, the attention that narrows and focuses. Instead\, outside of knowing\, her heart is blessed in its idleness\, receiving what comes. This is attention as well\, alert and open\, in connection with what comes (like meditation.) I believe we can call this love. \nLove your Life\nYou have heard it read at most every Christian wedding you have attended. First Corinthians 13\, wherein the writer\, Paul of Tarsus\, speaks of a most excellent way\, the way of love. I have paraphrased this passage a great deal to fit our context: \nLove is patient and kind. It does not envy\, it does not boast. It is not proud. It does not dishonor others\, is not self seeking\, nor is it easily angered. It keeps no records of wrongs. Love does not hold separate\, but opens to life as it comes. Love receives everything\, trusts\, and abides in all. \nSurely love can be our approach to one another\, but more broadly love is an approach to living\, welcoming and trusting what comes. Patient and kind\, love includes\, welcomes. Love will not boast—there is no thing to promote over anything else. It will not seek for self\, for in love there is no self to seek or grab hold of\, or add to what is here. Nor is love easily angered\, there is no thing to protect. We can appreciate life—no\, love life—all of it as it comes our way. That which a separate self might call “good” or “bad\,” all of it is included in our full lives\, endlessly changing and in flux. \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
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Equanimity Case 7 – Yaoshan Ascends the Rostrum
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nYaoshan hadn’t given a talk for a long time. The Administrator of the temple said\,\n“Everyone has been anxious for instruction for quite a while. Please\, will you give a teaching?”\nYaoshan called for the bell and everyone gathered. He climbed up to the seat.\nThen\, after a long time\, he climbed down and returned to his quarters.\nThe Administrator followed after him and asked\, “You agreed to give a teaching\nfor everyone; why didn’t you say a single word?”\nYaoshan said\, “For sutras\, there are sutra specialists. For commentaries\, there are\ncommentary specialists. What do you want from me?”\n\n—Book of Serenity Case 7 \nIn the first case of Equanimity we had the Buddha ascending the rostrum\, now we have Yaoshan ascending the rostrum in the same way. Is the repetition just in case we didn’t get it the first time? Either Hongzhi\, who originally collected the koans\, or Wansong\, who took Hongzhi’s collection and added commentary\, chose to give these two cases the same name\, except for the name of the protagonist. They must have appreciated that the same point was being made and at the same time recognized that something different was being offered in the case of Yaoshan. \nWith Yaoshan we have the conversation that happens after he descends from the rostrum and that’s where my attention went. Then a story about Yaoshan and his teacher Shitou joined in the conversation. That story goes like this: \nOne day Shitou came upon Yaoshan sitting in the garden. He asked Yaoshan what he was doing and Yaoshan said\, “I’m not doing anything.” To which Shitou replied\, “Why are you sitting here wasting time?” Yaoshan replied\, “If I was wasting time\, then I’d be doing something.” Shitou then said\, “What is this ‘not doing anything’ that you’re talking about?” Yaoshan said\, “Not even the 10\,000 sages know.”\n\nIn the koan that we kept company with before this one\, it was elder brother Hai who said he didn’t know\, placing himself firmly in the ranks of the 10\,000 sages. \nAs to what Yaoshan’s specialty was\, it seems obvious\, it was “not doing anything.” \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 
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: The Way to Cold Mountain: A Hermit's Poems and Life
DESCRIPTION:Looking for a refuge\nCold Mountain will keep you safe\na faint wind stirs dark pines\ncome closer\, the sound gets better\nbelow them sits a gray-haired man\nchanting Taoist texts\nten years unable to return\nhe forgot the way he came \n—The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain\, Red Pine\, (4) \nFor over a thousand years\, this has been one of the most beloved poems in Chan-Zen Buddhist and Daoist communities everywhere. The hermit writes that for a very long time he has lived deep in the mountains\, and he is now not sure if he wants to\, or even can\, return home. “Cold Mountain\,” writes Gary Snyder\, “in Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems\, is more than the name of an anonymous Tang Dynasty poet; it is also a place and a state of mind. As verse\, the poems are ‘colloquial\, rough\, and fresh.’” \nCold Mountain has always been the people’s\, rather than the critic’s\, choice. “The Chinese literati over the centuries never seemed to embrace the rag-wearing beggar as one of their own\,” writes Bill (Red Pine) Porter. Porter believes Cold Mountain is the people’s favorite just because he is simple\, honest and rudely playful. \nThe 300 poems\, collected off rocks\, bamboo\, wood and the walls of houses\, demonstrate in the writer a vast range of human emotion: expansive consciousness (“my mind is like the autumn moon/clear and bright in a pool of jade”)\, occasional bitterness (“Wise ones you ignore me/I ignore you fools”)\, and a melancholy loneliness (“recently visiting family and friends/most have left for the Yellow Springs”). \nHe gives hints of a former\, perhaps easier\, life now lost: tending a garden with his wife\, raising daughters\, enjoying a high social position. This is what the people understand in him: Love\, loss and loneliness. “Cold Mountain was a flesh-and-blood sage\, not a bronze or porcelain image\,” writes John Blofeld\, in his introduction to Red Pine’s translation. But Cold Mountain also shows in stories of his madcap life with two sidekicks\, Pickup and Big Stick\, that all is not tears. \nOne day while he was dusting the statues in the shrine hall Pickup went to the altar and ate a piece of fruit left by a worshiper in front of the statue of Shakyamuni. Then before the statue of Kaundinya\, the Buddha’s first disciple\, he yelled\, ”Hinayana monk!” The other monks who saw this reported it to the chief custodian\, who moved Pickup into the kitchen to work… \n–o– \nOnce when the monks were grilling eggplants\, Cold Mountain (who occasionally worked in the temple kitchen) grabbed a string of them and swung them against a monk’s back. When the monk turned around\, Cold Mountain held up the eggplants and said\, “What’s this?” The monk cried out\, “You lunatic!” Cold Mountain turned to another monk and said\, “Tell this monk he’s wasting salt and soy sauce…” \n–o– \nOnce I reached Cold Mountain\nI stayed for thirty years\nrecently visiting family and friends\nmost had left for the Yellow Springs\nslowly fading like a dying candle\nor surging past like a flowing stream\ntoday facing my solitary shadow\nsuddenly both eyes filled with tears (53) \n–o– \nI have a single cave\na cave with nothing inside\nspacious and devoid of dust\nfull of light that always shines\na meal of plants feeds a frail body\na cloth robe masks a mirage\nlet your thousand sages appear\nI have the primordial buddha (163) \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-49/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: Dodging the Monsters\, Chasing the Plum Blossoms
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIn the East\, ice and more ice\,\nIt is like claws\, a lock\, and the thaw is slow\nwhich is hard on the little creatures.\nIn the west\, delirious daffodils and\, finally\, plum blossoms.\nIn the capital\, presidents are screaming\, red faced.\nRed is a nice color\,\nI had a bright red car once which I bought because\, well I’m a bit color blind.\nIn any event\, it’s time for modest and encouraging early blooms like hound’s tongue\nwhich is actually stars\, blue stars\, a galaxy\,\npointing to the inner life which heals\, opens us\,\nand for which we sing\nand sit very still \nSit with us\, Sit with us\, we are building a culture for awakening \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-march-2-25/
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 March 1st here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-15/
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:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Mazu's Black and White
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Mazu\, “Without talking about philosophy\,\nplease tell me simply why Bodhidharma came from the West?”\nMazu said\, “Today I’m worn out and can’t explain it to you.\nGo find Zhizang and ask him.”\nThe student asked Zhizang\, who said\, “Why didn’t you ask the teacher?”\n“He told me to ask you.”\n“I have a headache today and can’t explain it to you.\nGo and find Elder Brother Hai and ask him.”\nThe student asked Hai\, who said\, “Ever since I came to this place I haven’t been able to explain that.”\nThe student told Mazu about this.\nMazu said\, “Zhizang’s hair is white\, Hai’s hair is black.” \n—Mazu’s Black and White\, Book of Serenity Case 6 \nAs soon as I started spending time with this koan\, a similar story involving Mazu came to mind: \nMazu and Baizhang had gone on a walk and seen wild geese fly away\, and Mazu asked Baizhang where they had gone. Baizhang responded\, “They flew away.” Mazu grabbed and twisted Baizhang’s nose and Baizhang cried out in pain. Mazu said\, “They haven’t gone anywhere at all.” Baizhang had an awakening experience.  \nAfter that experience\, Baizhang returned to the monk’s quarters and sat\, quietly weeping. One of his friends asked why he was weeping\, and Baizhang said\, “Go ask Mazu.” So Baizhang’s friend asked Mazu\, who replied\, “Go back and asked Baizhang.”  \nHe went back and arrived at the monk’s quarters to find Baizhang laughing. He said to Baizhang\, “Just a little while ago you were crying and now you’re laughing. What’s going on?” Baizhang replied\, “A little while ago I was crying and now I’m laughing.” \nWhose head was white and whose head was black in that situation? \nAt that point another koan came along to join the conversation. \nMujaku asked her teacher Bukko\, “What is Zen?”\nAnd Bukko replied\, “The heart of the one who asks. You cannot get it from another’s words.” \nMy mind throws up the question: If you cannot get it from another’s words\, then what’s the point of asking? In response to that\, I hear the first teaching I received about koan practice:  \n“Make your mind a question mark.”  \nWhether the question is “What is Zen?” or “Why are you weeping?” or “Why did Bodhidharma come from the West?” You cannot get the answer from another’s words. When brother Hai said\, “Ever since I came to this place I haven’t been able to explain that\,” he was not expressing any deficiency on his part. \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-30/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250224T193000
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SUMMARY:ZEN LUMINARIES: Dancing with the Dead – Jon Joseph in Conversation with Author & Translator Red Pine (Bill Porter)
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nPlease join us this Monday night when in our Pacific Zen Luminaries Series we visit with the celebrated Dharma translator\, Red Pine.  \nRed Pine\, also known as Bill Porter\, will share with us his pilgrimage to find and learn from present-day Chinese mountain hermits as chronicled in his book\, Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits\, and featured in the recent Woody Creek Pictures documentary\, Dancing with the Dead. Also joining us for this multi-media presentation are the film’s producer and director\, Ward Serrill\, and the vocalist in the film\, Spring Cheng. \nIn addition\, Red Pine will read from one of his earliest translations\, The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse.  \nStonehouse was a little-known Chinese hermit-poet of uncommon clarity and insight. Born into an elite family in 1272—the last years of the great Song Dynasty before it was overthrown by the Kublai Khan—at the age of twenty\, Stonehouse decided to become a Buddhist monk and went on to study with several outstanding teachers of the day.  \nA brilliant student\, he accepted the post of meditation master at a prestigious temple\, and was rapidly promoted to the position of abbot at several larger monasteries. But at age forty he tired of institutional prestige and position\, and gave up teaching to live as a simple hermit in a hand-built bamboo hut in the mountains. \nBelow are two of his many poems: \nDon’t think a mountain home means you’re free\na day doesn’t pass without its cares\nold ladies steal my bamboo shoots\nboys lead oxen into the wheat\ngrubs and beetles destroy my greens\nboars and squirrels devour the rice\nthings don’t always go my way\nwhat can I do by turn to myself\n \n(Mountain Poems\, 10) \nStripped of conditions\, my mind is at rest\nemptied of existence\, my nature is at peace\nhow often at night\, have my windows turned white\nas the moon and stream passed by my door\n \n(Mountain Poems\, 108) \n\nSo I’ve come to realize that translation is not just another literary art. It’s the ultimate literary art. For me this means a tango with Li Bai\, or a waltz with Wing-Wu. But in any case\, a dance with the dead. \n—Bill Porter \n\nShort Bio \nBill Porter assumes the pen name Red Pine for his translation work\, and is recognized as one of the world’s finest translators of Chinese poetic and religious texts. \nHe was born in Los Angeles in 1943\, grew up in the Idaho Panhandle\, served a tour of duty in the US Army\, graduated from the University of California with a degree in anthropology\, and attended graduate school at Columbia University.  \nUninspired by the prospect of an academic career\, he dropped out of Columbia and moved to a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan. After four years with the monks and nuns\, he struck out on his own and eventually found work at English-language radio stations in Taiwan and Hong Kong\, where he interviewed local dignitaries and produced more than a thousand programs about his travels in China.  \nHis translations have been honored with a number of awards\, including two NEA translation fellowships\, a PEN Translation Prize\, and the inaugural Asian Literature Award of the American Literary Translators Association.  \nHe was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support work on a book based on a pilgrimage to the graves and homes of China’s greatest poets of the past\, which was published under the title Finding Them Gone in January of 2016. More recently\, Porter received the 2018 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation bestowed by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  \nHe lives in Port Townsend\, Washington. \nsource: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/authors/bill-porter/ \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-dancing-with-the-dead-jon-joseph-in-conversation-with-author-translator-red-pine/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Monday Zen with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on March 3rd. 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-48/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250223T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250223T120000
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SUMMARY:Special Sunday Event: Join Us for the Last Morning of Winter Retreat
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nThis weekend for the first time\, the usual doors of the Sunday Zoom Temple will lead directly into the last morning of our Winter Sesshin. \nIt’s a beautiful thing to feel the deep stillness of retreat\, and to get a taste for the silence and spaciousness that is revealed in its presence. \nJoin us an hour early for our final block of deep meditation\, or at 10:30 a.m. PT for the dharma talk and closing ceremonies. \nWe hope to see you there. \n—John Tarrant\, Tess Beasley\, and all of us at PZI \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-50/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250223T120000
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SUMMARY:PZI Late Winter Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Late Winter Sesshin Is in Session: Hearing the Voice of Raindrops \nCLOSING DAY \nIn the PZI Online Temple with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers \nFebruary 20–23\, 2024
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-late-winter-sesshin-in-session-13-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T100000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Saturday Zen for PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not meeting today\, but will return on March 1st. We hope you sign up then!\n\nAbout 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 \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-on-break/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T210000
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SUMMARY:PZI Late Winter Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Late Winter Sesshin Is in Session: Hearing the Voice of Raindrops \nDAY THREE \nIn the PZI Online Temple with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers \nFebruary 20–23\, 2024
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-late-winter-sesshin-in-session-13/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T210000
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SUMMARY:PZI Late Winter Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Late Winter Sesshin Is in Session: Hearing the Voice of Raindrops \nDAY TWO \nIn the PZI Online Temple with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers \nFebruary 20–23\, 2024
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-late-winter-sesshin-in-session-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T163100
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T210000
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SUMMARY:PZI Late Winter Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Late Winter Sesshin Is in Session: Hearing the Voice of Raindrops \nOPENING NIGHT \nIn the PZI Online Temple with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers \nFebruary 20–23\, 2024
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-late-winter-sesshin-in-session/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250223T120000
DTSTAMP:20260503T062620
CREATED:20250107T232517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T190749Z
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SUMMARY:LATE WINTER RETREAT: Hearing the Voice of Raindrops with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nLATE WINTER RETREAT\nHearing the Voice of Raindrops\nWith John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nFebruary 20–23\, 2025\nIn the PZI Digital Temple\nLive Online \nKOAN: \nJingqing asked a student\, “What’s that sound outside the door?”\n“Rain\,” replied the student.\nJingqing said\, “People are upside down.\nThey delude themselves and chase after things.”\n“What about you?”\n“I’m reaching not to lose myself.”\n“What do you mean by reaching not to lose yourself?”\nJingqing said\, “Being born is easy; the way of freedom is hard.” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 46 \nTranslation by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland \n\n \nWinter Silence \nSilence has secret powers. To meet silence is to enter the deepest questions and the deepest kindness. It befriends our dreams. Just to step into the quiet of retreat is to find healing for troubles. We feel how much we are held by our friends who know about silence. \nAt winter retreat\, even one sitting wipes away regrets and fears. When we awaken\, the universe is our friend. \nJoin us online. \nTurn your home into a temple. \n—John Tarrant \n\nThis 4-day & 3-night gathering begins Thursday\, February 20th at 4:30 PM\,\nand completes on Sunday\, February 23rd at 12:00 PM Pacific Standard Time \nWho: With John Tarrant & PZI Teachers Tess Beasley\, Jesse Cardin\,\nEduardo Fuentes\, Jon Joseph\, David Parks\, Michelle Riddle\, & David Weinstein \nHeads of Practice: Marion Power and Jan Brogan \nWhere: Live Online in the PZI Digital Temple \nFees: $295 for PZI Members\, $350 for Non-Members \nMember Scholarship: If you are a PZI Member\, want to attend\, and are in need\,\nplease don’t hesitate to request financial aid through a PZI Scholarship. \nRegistrar: Lora Ferguson atloraferg1328@gmail.com \nNote: Your registration includes free access to weekday morning meditations in our Winter Open Temple\,\n which meets January 13th–March 28\, 2025! \n\nDear PZI Friends\, \nWe come together across oceans and continents with our members\, teachers\, musicians\, and those new to PZI. We discover things together which we could not discover alone. There’s a scholarship fund for PZI members who want to attend and need financial aid. If you’re not a member\, we invite you to join us today! \nThank you for all you’ve offered PZI over these many months and decades. It’s nice to have each other as we find our way. \n—Board President Tess Beasley Roshi & Director John Tarrant Roshi\, & All of Us at PZI \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/late-winter-early-spring-retreat-with-john-tarrant-pzi-teachers-hearing-the-voice-of-raindrops/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T173000
DTSTAMP:20260503T062620
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Thursday Zen with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:David Parks is not teaching today\, but will return on March 6th. We hope you join us then!\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-40/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Qingyuan’s Price of Rice
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Qingyuan\, “What’s the deep meaning of the Buddha’s teachings?”\nQingyuan said\, “What does rice cost in Luling?” \n—Book of Serenity Case 5 \nWhen I first encountered this koan I thought it was an elaboration on Nanquan’s “Ordinary mind is the way.” As it turned out it was the other way around. Nanquan was born seven years after Qingyuan died\, so it’s Nanquan who was elaborating on Qingyuan. \nNanquan’s “Ordinary Mind” leaves it to our imagination to fill in the blanks of what Ordinary Mind is. Qingyuan points directly at it. There isn’t the wiggle room that Nanquan leaves about what exactly Ordinary Mind is\, which can lead to a kind of special Ordinary Mind\, the one we think it is. There are all kinds of similar directly pointing teachings\, like one from Nanquan himself: \nA monk asked Nanquan\, “What is the way?” Nanquan replied\, “This sickle cost $3.” \nThen there is also: \nA monk asked Dongshan\, “What is Buddha?” Dongshan said\, “Three pounds of flax.” \nA monk asked Yunmen\, “What is Buddha?” Yunmen said\, “Dried shitstick.” \nA monk asked Zhaozhou\, “What is the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the West?” Zhaozhou said\, “The oak tree in the courtyard.” \nAnother time Zhaozhou said\, “In Zhenzhou they grow giant radishes. \nYunmen said\, “A fence of flowers and healing herbs around the latrine.” \nZhaozhou said\, “When I was in Qingzhou\, I made a cloth robe. It weighed nine pounds.” \nYunmen said\, “Five sesame buns and three bowls of tea!” \nI say\, “Last night someone gave me something called a Cookie Cake\, I ate the whole thing.” \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 
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LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Language of the Heart – A Chat about Classic Chinese Poetry
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n“Poetry is China’s greatest art\,” writes translator Red Pine (Bill Porter)\, especially during the great dynasties of the Tang (618-906) and Song (960-1278). “The Chinese have ever since called this their Golden Age of Poetry.” It was also the golden age of Chan/Zen Buddhism in China. \n“The Chinese word for poetry shih (詩) is nominally a combination of word (言) and temple (寺)\, but it’s origin is actually chih\, made of the two characters for word (言) and to aspire\, or heart-felt (志)\,” writes Red Pine. He translates the character for poem as “language from the heart.” \nIn these two dynasties\, there were monk poets\, hermit poets\, government official poets\, and emperor poets\, and they wrote everywhere: on paper\, rocks\, cave and temple walls. They got inspiration from birds and animals\, human relationships\, water courses\, history\, weather\, and wine. And always the narrative was one of human beings standing in a timeless time and spaceless space in the midst of the ever-changing and forever-moving Way. \nThese three poets are among the greatest in the Tang: \nDu Fu (712-770)\, trained as a Confucian\, is sometimes called the “poet-historian.” He was for many years a government official\, serving on the front lines in war or in the capital\, falling in and out of favor\, depending on the imperial court and events of the times. He died in near poverty. \n“Moonrise” \nThin slice of ascending light\, arc tipped\nAside all its bellied dark—the new moon\nappears and\, scarcely risen beyond ancient\nfrontier passes\, edges behind clouds. Silver\,\nchangeless—the Star River spreads across\nempty mountains scoured with cold. White\ndew dusts the courtyard\, chrysanthemum\nblossoms clotted there with swollen dark. \nLi Bai (701-762) was the Daoist of the three\, and his poems often celebrated friendship\, the wonders of nature\, and the joys of drinking wine. He married several times into different wealthy families\, but often gave his belongings away to friends\, and failed at several attempts to serve in court. His life\, like his friend Tu Fu’s\, was greatly impacted by the disastrous An Lu Shan Rebellion of 755. It is said Li Bai drowned\, falling out of a boat on his way to exile while one night trying to capture the moon in a drunken embrace. \n“Waiting for Wine that Doesn’t Come” \nJade winejars tied in blue silk….\nWhat’s taking the wineseller so long?\nMountain flowers smiling\, taunting me\,\nit’s the perfect time to sip some wine\,\nladle it out beneath my east window\nat dusk\, wandering orioles back again\,\nSpring breezes and their drunken guest:\ntoday\, we are meant for each other. \nPo Chu-I (772-846)\, who also served as politician and artist\, was the Chan-Zen Buddhist of the three greats. His poems advising stopping a needless military campaign and satire of greedy officials got him exiled from court several times. His poetry is known for its accessibility\, and it is said if one of his servants could not understand a poem\, he would rewrite it. \n“Sick and Old\, Same as Ever: A Poem to Figure it All Out” \nSplendor and ruin\, sorrow and joy\, long life or early death:\nwhen the human realm’s a figment of prank and whimsy\,\nis it really so strange if I’m a bug’s arm or a rat’s liver?\nAnd chicken skin or crane plumage—what would It hurt?\nIn yesterday’s winds\, I was happy to begin my long journey\,\nbut today in all this sunlit warmth\, I feel better.\nAnd now that I’m packed and ready for that distant voyage\,\nwhat does it matter if I linger on a little while 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-47/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Consoling the Lonely Ghosts
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nElephants and the loneliness of ghosts. \nTraveling in Kyoto a week or so ago\, in every temple we visited there was a history of destruction and refuge.\nThere was no pretense that the trouble of a human life can be evaded. \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-49/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Book of Equanimity Case 4
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nAs I spend more time this koan\, I find myself remembering all the many places the Oakland group has meditated since 1989. Initially it was in a tiny student apartment of the Graduate Theological Seminary\, where we sat in a living room lined with bookcases. We sat facing the wall in those days\, so we sat facing a wall of books\, an interesting something to have in front of the eyes that were not open nor closed. \nThen there were a couple of Montessori kindergartens\, where we had to move all the little chairs and desks out of the way and sit facing art done by the students or the latest project in a terrarium\, right at eye level. When one of those kindergartens had a fire and we had to find a place with no notice\, we reached out to Jerry Brown. He had been in Kamakura for nine months practicing at the San Un Zendo\, and shared the house in which I was living. We hoped he might have a suggestion for us\, and he did: his living room. We sat for about four years in that living room\, in the American Bag Company building\, while his We the People headquarters was being built on the adjoining lot. To say it was his living room would be an overstatement—it was a cavernous space on the second floor where Jerry had his bedroom. There was another room that we used for conversations. When Jerry moved from there to the We the People building\, we were invited to join the community there. \nThen there was the Unitarian church where another meditation group used the room below us while we gathered\, complaining that we made too much noise as we meditated. We never got a complaint from Art’s Crab Shack\, our next location\, a bar and restaurant above which we sat for about eight years. I still miss feeling the floorboards vibrating with the sound of the jukebox as we meditated\, and the roar of fans during Monday Night Football. \nThere was the office of an environmental engineer—a member of the group—where I had conversations with folks in the men’s bathroom. It was quite a nice room with a high ceiling\, nice brick walls and judicious placement of shoji screens so you wouldn’t know it was a bathroom except for the sign on the door. \nAnd there was the employee lounge of a consulting group which specialized in helping cannabis dispensaries set up business. Due to the nature of their business\, a high percentage of employees used ‘medicine’ and the lounge was the designated place to do it. It was designated the ‘Medication/Meditation Room.’ \nBefore moving to Rockridge\, there was a suite of three offices in the fruit and vegetable district of downtown Oakland. When we met\, early in the morning\, for conversations\, the streets were bustling with trucks and forklifts getting produce out to markets and restaurants. In the evening when we met\, it was deserted and kind of spooky. Several folks didn’t feel comfortable going there. \nThen\, finally\, there was Rockridge\, our first 24/7 space\, and it was great for another eight years. Interestingly\, the woman who ran the hair salon downstairs also complained that we made too much noise when we meditated. \nAnd then there was the pandemic and Zoom. \nTo be at home in whatever situation arises is what Linji meant when he said “Take the role of host and you will be in a true place.” That is the place we cultivate with our meditation practice\, wherever we put our blade of grass. \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-28/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: What Is the Source of Our Muse?
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nWords do not express the fact.\nSpeech is not useful;\nIf attached to words\, one should be mourned.\nIf mired in phrases\, one becomes confused. \n—Gateless Gate\, Case 37\, Wumen’s Verse \n“Tell me\, Muse\, the story of a man\, it’s many twists and turns\, how many times he was led astray\, having been at the destruction of Troy’s holy city…“ So begins The Odyssey. What is the mysterious source of the muse Homer calls upon? How does the muse sing\, dance\, sail\, and fight? \nI recently listened to a 2004 interview with the musician Neil Young\, who spoke of the first time he heard his muse. \nAt 17\, Young had formed a band and was writing and singing his own music\, but he didn’t feel it was very creative and improvisational. One night\, while playing in a small club\, he recalled: \n“I did something on my guitar where we started playing this song\, and then we got into the instrumental\, and I just basically went nuts. And I think it was the first time that ever happened. And I just kept playing. And I just kept going and going and grinding and just pounding away at this rhythmic thing and exploring little nuances of it… \nAnd at that point\, you know\, I realized\, well\, there’s a place I can go. And I didn’t — I just kind of fell into it by accident. And I think I’ve spent the rest of my life trying to get there.” \nMapping the place where the muse resides has long been important work in the Chan-Zen tradition. And stumbling off course\, getting lost\, has always been part of the grand exploration. A young monk named Dragon Tooth (Longya) was once traveling around China seeking out many of the famous teachers of the time. He came to Virtue Mountain (Deshan) and asked: \n“How is it when a student holding a sharp sword tries to take the teacher’s head?” The teacher Virtue stretched out his neck and uttered a grunt. Tooth exclaimed\, “The teacher’s head has fallen.” Virtue smiled slightly and let it go at that. \nHmm\, not quite yet. Despite his earnestness\, Tooth could not yet accept Virtue’s invitation to directly enter the playfield of the Universe. He was still “attached to words” and “mired in phrases.” \nNext\, our friend Dragon Tooth went to the famous Cave Mountain (Dongshan). \nCave asked\, “Where did you come  from?” Tooth said\, “From Virtue Mountain.” Cave replied\,  “What did he have to say?” Tooth recounted his story. Cave asked\, “Yes\, but what did he say?” Tooth said\, “He had no words.” Cave replied\, “Don’t say that he had no words. Instead try to take Virtue Mountain’s fallen head and show it to me.” \nAt this\, Tooth realized he and all things were not two. The source of his muse was unknowable\, but also\, he did not need to know. Dragon Tooth burned a stick of incense and gazed toward Virtue Mountain in deepest thanks. \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-46/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Into the Crucible
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nA student asked Dongshan\, “When cold and heat come\, how can we avoid them?”\nDongshan said\, “Why don’t you go to the place where there is no cold or heat?”\nThe student asked\, “Where’s the place with neither cold nor heat?”\nDongshan said\, “When it’s cold\, the cold kills you. When it’s hot\, the heat kills you.” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 43 \nThings are changing quickly in our world. As the old arrangements fall apart\, what we can do is have a real\, spiritual life. \nWe just printed our beautiful new sutra books and included a quote from Basho\, “Never think that your life doesn’t count.” \nIt’s good to have a connection to the great matter. A true inner life shows us our place in the universe. \nWe hold the center and the vastness. \nJust as the daffodils of February do. \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-48/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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