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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250218T193000
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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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-29/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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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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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 February 8th here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-14/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Withered Trees Come Into Flower
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne day Changsha went wandering in the mountains. When he returned\, the head of practice met him at the gate and asked\, “Where have you been?”\n“Wandering in the mountains.”\n“Where did you go?”\n“I went out following scented grasses and returned chasing falling blossoms.” “That’s so much the feeling of spring\,” said the head of practice.\n“Still\, it’s better than autumn dew dripping on lotus flowers\,” said Changsha. \nXuedou comments: “Thanks for your reply.” \n—Blue Cliff Record\, Case 36 \nBarefoot\, bare-chested\, he walks into town.\nDusty\, spattered with mud\, how broadly he grins!\nHe has no need of magic powers. Near him\nThe withered trees again come into flower. \n—Ox-Herding\, verse from Tenth Picture\, “Entering the Village with Gift Giving Hands\,” Lewis Hyde\, trans. \nOn Sunday\, the groundhog\, the proverbial groundhog\, Punxsutawney Pennsylvania’s claim to fame—call him Phil\, left his tree stump\, took a look around and saw his shadow. Through human handlers he proclaimed 6 more weeks of winter. That’s the ground hog’s take. On the other hand\, I awoke on February 2nd\, opened my eyes\, sniffed the air\, heard the bird song—I did not even search for my shadow. I knew the feel of spring. The feeling of an intimate aliveness as the air warms\, the crow caws\, the tiny buds on the peach tree emerge from the branch. And something awakes. Perhaps it is the springing of the heart\, heart’s opening to verdant hues. The old hymn comes to mind\, \nMorning has broken like the first morning\nBlackbird has spoken like the first bird\nPraise for the singing\, praise for the morning\nPraise for them springing fresh from the world \nThe feeling of spring. Awakening on Groundhog Day\, a veiled celebration of the Celtic celebration of Imbloc (the day halfway between winter equinox and spring solstice)\, I embrace the smell of the warming earth\, the blooming\, the budding\, the greening\, earth’s invitation\, a gateway into vitality\, diversity and blessing. Ah\, the feel of spring! A good day for a stroll into that feel\, into the liveliness of spring. \nOne day Changsha wakes up\, catches the feel of spring and goes a’wandering\, a’roving in the hills. His is an aimless gait\, a saunter\, with no destination nor purpose. He holds on to nothing at all. He is wandering. First here and then there. What is that lovely fragrance? And on the way back\, “Oh\, the flowers are falling in the apple orchard.” Having stepped off\, out of his sense of self\, Changsha steps fully into the hills and into life\, finding no distance between himself and his surroundings. Strolling\, in the wild\, budding\, blooming warmth of spring\, he is engaged with it all. In the words of another koan\, he has taken a step off the hundred foot pole and everything in every direction is his body! Everything. In. Every. Direction. Bees work the clover. The pear tree buds and blooms. All one body \nWe awaken in the budding\, the teeming\, the clustering of life. We can trust spring\, our trusting itself becoming that which we trust. No separation at all. We awaken to the warm body next to us as we garden\, frolic and work. No separation. We offer our love to the one we once called other. Why? Well\, could it be any other way? \nYes\, spring. This is good. Though I’d say not different but still better than the autumn dew falling on the lotuses or the bare branch cold against the winter sky. Spring\, the flowering of our awakening. \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-39/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Equanimity Case 3
DESCRIPTION:A king of Eastern India invited the Twenty-Seventh Ancestor\, Prajnatara\, to a vegetarian meal. “Why don’t you read from the sutras?” he asked her. \nPrajnatara said\, “I’m a poor person of the Way: When I breathe in I don’t live in the world my mind makes\, and when I breathe out I don’t get caught up in the world of cause and effect. I’m always turning the wheel of the sutras—a hundred\, a thousand\, ten thousand\, a hundred thousand scrolls.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 3 \nAs I sat with this koan\, the first thing that came to me were Bodhidharma’s words to Emperor Wu\, “Vast emptiness\, nothing holy.” Nothing holy because everything is holy. \nThen a koan from our miscellaneous collection came to join the conversation: \nAll the Buddhas and the Buddha’s teachings arise from this sutra. What is this sutra? \nThat koan is attributed to Shishuang\, who also gave us: \nHow do you take a step from the 100-foot pole? \nWhich he followed with helpful advice: \nYou who sit on the top of a hundred-foot pole\, although you have entered the Way\, it is not yet genuine. Take a step from the hundred-foot pole and the Worlds of the Ten Directions are your total body. \nWhen you’ve entered the way genuinely and the Worlds of the Ten Directions are your total body\, everything you do is turning the wheel of the sutras. \nTurned any wheels lately? How about the steering wheel on your car? \n—David Weinstein\, February 11th\, 2025 \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \n  \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Snipe Hunt for Intimacy
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nWhen I was about in the fourth grade\, I joined the Boy Scouts where I stayed into high school. I remember my mother shopping with me for a khaki shirt and scarf at H.C. Capwell’s department store and then myself sewing the patches “Troop 302”\, a touch crooked\, on the left shoulder. The Scouts gave us a great chance to go camping\, which I loved\, and eventually I saved enough money from mowing lawns to go to the council’s summer camp\, called Wolfboro\, in the Sierras. \nA monk asked Great Master Ma\, “Apart from the four propositions and beyond the hundred negations\, I ask you teacher\, to clearly show me the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the West.”\nThe Great Master said: ”I’m tired today and can’t explain it for you. Go ask Zhizang.”\n \n—The Book of Serenity\, Case 6 \nThere was a tradition at the camp that on the first evening\, the Tenderfeet were taken on a snipe hunt. I didn’t even know what a snipe was. The older boys gave us younger ones a flashlight\, a plate and spoon from our mess kit\, and guided us into the forest to search for the elusive bird. We were told to bang the plate with the spoon and yell\, “Here snipe! Here snipe! Come here\, snipe!” \nThe monk then goes to Zhizang\, who tells him he has a headache and can’t explain\, but suggests he seek out elder brother Hai (Baizhang). Hai says that\, “For all the time I have been here\, I still don’t get it.” \nWe were excited when we headed into the woods\, and soon enough one of the older boys shouted\, “There is one over here!” We ran over shining our beams\, but the bird had fled. Another boy shouted from the other direction\, “There’s one!” and we rushed toward him. Alas\, the snipe once again escaped. After about a half hour of banging and yelling\, and several more missed chances\, we made our way back to the campfire where the scoutmaster had hot chocolate waiting for us. We laughed and joked around the fire. \nThe hapless monk then returns to Mazu\, who tells him\, “Zang’s head is white\, and Hai’s head is black.” \nWhat is our monk searching for here? It is the same things you and I are wanting: inclusion\, intimacy\, and some sense of the light. What he probably does not realize is that the search itself is full of inclusion\, intimacy\, and light. The search itself is the fulfillment of his deepest wants. In the kindest way\, that is what the three teachers are trying to show him. Koun Yamada writes of this koan: “It is important to realize that each of these statements is the complete manifestation of the ultimate truth of Buddhism\, the meaning of coming from the West.” Each statement is an invitation to join in the play of the universe. \nAfter a few years in the Scouts\, I was asked to watch over some Tenderfeet coming to camp. One morning we woke up and\, though we had bacon to cook for breakfast\, someone had forgotten the darned bacon stretcher. So I asked several younger boys to go around to other camps and see if they could borrow a left-handed bacon stretcher. They searched and searched\, but could not find one. \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-45/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Tess Beasley & Friends: Taking Up the Mountain Path
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nA monk asked Yunmen\, “Where do all the Buddhas come from?”\nYunmen said\, “East Mountain walks on the water.” \n—Entangling Vines\, Case 49 \nLong before the human story\, great beings roamed the earth. They collected clouds and birthed rivers and lived for hundreds of millions of years at a time. They still do. \nThe ancients called them mountains and often looked to them as gods. The early Zen masters made their homes among them\, sometimes taking a mountain name as their own name\, sometimes taking a mountain name for their temple\, whether it dwelled in the mountains or not. \nThese old teachers were called “Mountain Openers\,” as to enter a mountain gate was to take up the spiritual path and meet the untamed\, primordial forces of nature\, the nature of one’s own mind. \nWe enter them still and they live in us\, too. Join us this Sunday for deep meditation and encounters in their midst. \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-john-tarrant-friends-47/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Equanimity #2: Vast Emptiness\, Nothing Holy
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nEmperor Wu asked the great teacher Bodhidharma\,\n“What is the first principle of the holy teaching?”\nBodhidharma said\, “Vast emptiness\, nothing holy.”\n“Who are you\, standing here in front of me?” asked the Emperor.\n“I don’t know\,” said Bodhidharma.\nThe Emperor didn’t understand.\nBodhidharma crossed the river and went into the Kingdom of Wei. \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 1\, & Book of Serenity Case 2 (translation by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland) \nAs I have been sitting with this snippet of the longer story of the meeting between Bodhidharma and Emperor Wu\, I am reminded that the Emperor’s question about the first principle came after he had asked Bodhidharma about the merit he had gained from all of the good works he had done in promoting the teachings. Bodhidharma’s response was\, “No merit whatsoever.” That puts the question about the first principle into a different context for me. \nI imagine Emperor Wu to have been taken aback by Bodhidharma’s response. Asking about the first principle feels like the Emperor’s first salvo in defending himself from\, and arguing against\, Bodhidharma’s assessment. I imagine the emperor thought the first principle would have supported doing good works as he had done. But Bodhidharma was bringing a different kind of practice with him than what had been familiar to the Emperor. Bodhidharma’s practice was the practice of Prajna Paramita\, the practice of his teacher Prajnatara. The teaching of vast emptiness and nothing holy. When the Emperor confronts Bodhidharma by asking him\, “Who are you\, standing here in front of me?” I hear him saying\, “Who are you to speak to me that way after all I have done for the teaching?” \nAs for Bodhidharma’s response of\, “I don’t know” I think he was being genuine. Not in the sense of quoting doctrine\, but rather truly questioning himself. I imagine that prior to asking about the merit he had accumulated\, the Emperor detailed exactly what all those good works were. How could he not offer doing some good works specifically for Bodhidharma himself\, or at least imply that he was open to doing so. That would certainly be a feather in the Emperor’s cap. I further imagine that Bodhidharma may very well have been tempted by the Emperor’s offer\, which may have shocked him and led him to question just how well he knew himself. \nWe are told that after this encounter with the Emperor\, Bodhidharma went and faced a wall for either seven or nine years\, depending on the version of the story. We’re also told that while facing the wall meditating\, after having dozed off during his meditation\, he cut off his eyelids\, giving him that signature glare. I think if he truly knew who he was and truly didn’t know who he was\, he wouldn’t have done that. \nBut that’s just my dream of this koan\, what’s yours? \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-26/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:No regular Monday meeting today. \nJOIN JON JOSEPH & FRIENDS FOR A VISIT WITH PICO IYER \nIN OUR ZEN LUMINARIES SERIES ON JANUARY 27th \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 next Monday for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-44/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:ZEN LUMINARIES: Aflame – Learning from Silence: Jon Joseph in Conversation with Essayist & Author Pico Iyer
DESCRIPTION:Pico Iyer returns to Zen Luminaries for a wide-ranging discussion on his life\, work\, and latest book\, Aflame: Learning from Silence. \nReading Aflame may help many to lead lives of greater compassion and deeper peace of mind. \n—His Holiness the Dalai Lama \n\nPico Iyer is one of the great storytellers of our time. He has traveled the world for decades\, writing for periodicals or doing research for one of his many books. For much of that time he would return\, again and again\, to the Hermitage—a Benedictine monastery high above the Pacific Coast in Big Sur\, California. Pico has visited the Hermitage over a hundred times in the past thirty-two years\, in search of silence. In Aflame: Learning from Silence\, he shares memories and reflections on his time spent there in solitude. \nThe silence of a monastery is not like that of a deep forest or mountaintop; it’s active and thrumming\, almost palpable. And part of its beauty—what deepens and extends it—is that it belongs to all of us.  \nIn the solitude of my cell\, I often feel closer to the people I care for than when they’re in the same room\, reminded in the sharpest way why I love them; in silence all the unmet strangers across the property come to feel like friends\, joined at the root. \nAnd there has been been fire\, not just the fire that destroyed Iyer’s Santa Barbara home\, but the grass fires threatened his treasured Hermitage and its resident monks. \n“Sooner or later the world must burn\, and all things in it\,” writes the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Yet he also knows that the monk’s first duty is to keep the fires within alight. “If you so wish\,” observes one of the Desert Fathers whose sayings Merton collects\, “you can become aflame.” \nJoin us for a fascinating conversation with Pico on the Hermitage\, Leonard Cohen’s time as a cloistered Zen monk\, his journeys with the Dalai Lama\, and fires that burn within our hearts and in the world outside. \n—Jon Joseph \n\n\nPico Iyer was born in Oxford\, England in 1957. In 1980\, he became a Teaching Fellow at Harvard\, where he received a second Master’s degree\, and in subsequent years received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters. Since 1982\, he has been a full-time writer\, publishing fifteen books translated into twenty-three languages\, on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to globalism\, from the Cuban Revolution to Islamic mysticism. \nHis books include such long-running sellers as Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk\, The Global Soul\, The Open Road and The Art of Stillness. He has been a constant contributor for more than thirty years to Time\, The New York Times\, Harper’s Magazine\, the Los Angeles Times\, and more than 250 periodicals worldwide. His four recent talks for TED have received more than eleven million views. \nSince 1992\, Iyer has spent much of his time at a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur\, California\, and most of the rest in suburban Japan. \n\nSource: www.picoiyerjourneys.com \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-aflame-learning-from-silence-jon-joseph-in-conversation-with-essayist-novelist-pico-iyer/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Michelle Riddle & Friends: Meeting Just as We Are
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\nZen Master Yunmen was once asked\, “What is meditating and seeing things just as they are?” He responded\, “The coin lost in the river is found in the river.” \nAs I write this\, we are one day into a new leadership regime in the United States. Things are getting shaken up; it feels rocky and unstable. It’s easy to get pulled into the drama and to speculate about what it’s all going to mean for our planet\, for people we know and people we’ve never met\, and for ourselves. This kind of thinking is full of reasons and explanations and projections. It’s different from the Zen notion of seeing things just as they are. \nIn meditation we don’t get things sorted and figured out\, we sink into the life we have and we notice what we notice—what it’s like to be here. We enter with all of our senses\, and with curiosity\, and sometimes questions arise\, such as: What is here that I am overlooking? Am I limiting what arises by thinking I know what is relevant or important? Is there something I am afraid of? Other times we can rest in awareness\, noticing without words. \nThis noticing opens us to more freedom\, to new creative moves and possibilities. \nEven when meditating with a koan that we think we know well\, in each encounter it offers something new. Like the proverbial river that we can’t enter in the same place twice\, it meets us where we are in that moment. \nLet’s meet together this Sunday and sink into a river of meditation\, music\, and more. \n—Michelle Riddle \nExcerpted from the Daodejing by Laozi\, translation by Stephen Mitchell: \nDo you have the patience to wait\ntill your mud settles and the water is clear?\nCan you remain unmoving\ntill the right action arises by itself?\nThe Master doesn’t seek fulfillment.\nNot seeking\, not expecting\,\nshe is present\, and can welcome all things.
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-46/
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 January 25th here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-13/
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: Taking Care of the One Not Sick
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\n\nWhen Dongshan was not feeling well\, someone said\, “Teacher\, you are not feeling well. Is there anyone who doesn’t get sick?”\nDongshan said\, “Yes\, there is.”\n“Does the person who doesn’t get sick take care of you?”\nDongshan said\, “I have the opportunity to take care of the person.”\n“What happens when you take care of that person?”\nDongshan said\, “At that time\, I don’t see the sickness.” \n—Book of Serenity\, Case 94 \nI have been revisiting the shoulds of life. I should go see so and so\, call this person\, do this thing. The other day\, it was as simple as this: I should go feed the chickens and horses. What I have noticed is that the pay off for thinking should puts me farther away from the thing I should be doing. Oh\, I can feed the animals later\, or make that phone call tomorrow. \nThis works into my practice as well: I should meditate at least an hour a day. Even with my practice\, should leaves me an arm’s length away from my actual life. Should points to the life that stands apart from the life I am currently engaged in. \nShould binds me to the conventional\, what I believe my life should be\, what I believe others might want from me. With should\, I am a ghost living in a ghost world\, distant and far off. \nEven while his teacher is ill\, the student earnestly asks\, “Is there one who is not ill?” “Yes\,” he is told\, “there is.” Here\, the teacher points to that which in all of us is in accord with the Dao\, the vast interconnected nature of things. Conventionally\, we might think that this might have something for us\, something that can fix the dis-ease\, so with the student we might ask: “Does the person who doesn’t get sick take care of you?” That’s what we might think\, “Shouldn’t that person take care of you?” \nDongshan turns the whole conversation around at this point by saying\, “I have the opportunity to take care of the person.” This is an alternative to the convention that the well take care of the sick. One teaching upside down\, says Yunmen. As Dongshan turns things around\, I find myself leaving the shoulds of life and instead finding an opportunity\, as Dongshan puts it\, to be present to the moment\, the unfolding of the Dao\, here and now. This is before any sickness. Here\, in the midst of coughing and sputtering with RSV I can find no sickness\, no dis-ease. \n—David Parks \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-38/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Just This Is It – #1 Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne day the World-Honored One ascended to the rostrum. Manjusri struck the white gavel and said\, “Contemplate clearly the Dharma of the King of the Dharma. The Dharma of the King of the Dharma is just this!” The World-Honored One then stepped down from the rostrum. \n—Book of Serenity Case 1 \nWhen I started keeping company with this koan\, the first thing that came along was the conversation between Dongshan and Yunyan on Dongshan’s departure: \nDongshan asked Yunyan\, “Later on\, if I am asked to describe your teachings\, what should I tell people?” Yunyan replied: “Just this is it.”  \nWhile I was at KoKo-An Zendo in Honolulu\, Aitken Roshi would invite a professor\, David Kalapuhana from the University of Hawaii philosophy department\, to give a talk. His field of interest was what he called “Original Buddhism\,” what others know as Theravada Buddhism. What interested Aitken was Kalapuhana’s feeling that Chan\, and later Zen\, were movements back towards the original teachings of the Buddha. An example of that is Donsghan\, an 8th century Chan teacher\, echoing a teaching of the Buddha. \nI also remembered that in China—and I’m assuming also in India—there are records of people traveling great distances to seek teachings: hundreds and even thousands of miles. I found myself imagining being one of those people having walked many miles to come for the teaching of the Buddha only to have him ascend the rostrum and then descend without saying a word. \nI’m sure there were those who appreciated the inexpressible nature of the teachings and the Buddha’s demonstration of that\, who understood that Manjusri was pointing to it. I think Manjusri was equally pointing to the experience of those who were terribly disappointed at having come so far only to the Buddha’s voice. \nThat’s when Hakuin came along and asked\, \nIs it in the shit and the piss? \nIn one version of the Book of Equanimity\, there is text below the title which reads\, \nWhen a dragon appears as the dragon of having a flat tire. \nHad any flat tires lately? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-25/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Gaia Shows the Way
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFollowing the heavy rains\, scores of Chinook salmon showed up in Sonoma Creek\, a narrow\, thirty-mile stream that flows into the San Francisco Bay. They came to spawn and then die\, as they have done for millennia. Extreme drought and decades of development brought the collapse of salmon and steelhead populations\, forcing California to ban fishing of those species along its Pacific coast. Yet this year the large salmon\, also known as “Kings\,” returned. \nGaia shows that she can heal. Here is a koan for healing: \nYunmen said to the assembly\,\n“Medicine and sickness cure each other.\nAll the great earth is medicine.\nWhat are you?” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 87\, transl. John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland \nImages and videos of the fires in SoCal bring painful memories for those of us previously touched by fire. Five years ago the Kincade Fire rode on the back of Diablo winds—similar to Santa Anas—devastating our rural Sonoma neighborhood: Charred live and valley oaks\, burned manzanita and madrone\, and underfoot\, scorched grass. All the homes in the area\, save our own and a few others\, had burned. After the fire passed I watched a lone coyote amble on the blackened slope across the creek\, searching for dead rodents. \nMedicine and sickness heal each other. But despair has not been my strongest emotion hearing the terrible news from Los Angeles. I feel my appreciation for the power of renewal and healing that the great earth\, Gaia\, brings. \nIf Gaia can heal\, perhaps we\, too\, can heal. When I hike with my dog through the Mayacama hills\, most signs of the Kincade have been overtaken by new growth: the wildrye and fescue returned quickly\, followed by madrone\, manzanita and oaks. Only the gray pines remain as charred sentinels along the ridge line. \nDespair could come easily in these times\, especially for us gray-hairs. But at Pacific Zen we have a saying\, “Despair assumes too much knowing.” I see my young daughters deeply engaged in great-earth work\, seeking to make their future not just possible\, but promising. One has worked for several years in forestry and is currenly training to be a prescribed-burn crew boss. The other works as an analyst at a political polling firm. When I meet their friends\, I find them energetic\, action-oriented\, and full of hope. It is wrong and unfair for us to predict that they have no future. \nGaia finds a way\, all on her own. We don’t need to help her so much as we need to get out of her way. When we do\, the Chinook return to Sonoma Creek. \nHomeric Hymn to Gaia\nby Diane J. Rayor\, from The Homeric Hymns\, 30 \nI will sing to the mother of all\, firmly-rooted Gaia.\neldest living deity who feeds all the world’s life—\nwhether on the divine land\, in the deep sea\,\nor flying about—all beings feed from your plenty.\nFine children and rich harvests arise from you.\nO Queen; you alone give mortal folk a livelihood\,\nor take it away. The one you graciously honor\nis truly blessed. For him\, all is abundant:\nhis life-giving fields bear fruit\, flocks thrive\nin his pastures… \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-43/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Hanging From a Branch by Your Teeth
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n“Mummy\, why does it keep on changing?” asked the young rhino. “I mean it’s fire one minute and flood the next\, not to mention the hyenas.” \n“Yep.” \n“Why?” \n“First Noble Truth.” \n“What does that mean?” \n“It means that it’s like that. A dream\, a bubble\, a flash of lightning.” \n“Isn’t that\, well\, intense?” \n“Knowing about it helps. The mind is calm. \nEverything changes\, everything falls apart\, catches fire\, then drowns. \nA dream\, a bubble\, a flash of lightning.” \n“Mummy\, is there anything good about this?” \n“You can see that you are connected to everything in the universe\, the stars for example. That’s what ‘hanging from a branch by your teeth’ means.” \n“Really\, Mummy? I meant\, can I have an apple? I love apples.\n \nAlso\, can we have snow? I’d like to see snow.”\n \nJoin us for the mysteries of fire and rain. \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-45/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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