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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/
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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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/
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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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-27/
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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/
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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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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
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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/
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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/
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: A Fierce Wind
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe minister Yu Di asked Xi Yu Daotang about a line in the scripture. “What is meant by\, ‘A fierce winds blew the ship off course and set it drifting toward the land of the flesh-eating demons?’”  \nThe master replied\, “Minister\, why are you so ignorant? Why are you asking about that?” The minister’s face turned white. \nThe master said\, “A fierce wind blew them off course and set them adrift toward the land of the flesh-eating demons.” The minister understood.  \n— Entangling Vines Case 39 \nWith pirates in control of the morning meditation\, I found myself asking what koan is alive for me during this time—this one about the fierce wind blowing the ship off course. \nThe scripture referred to in the koan is the Lotus Sutra\, and I went to the Lotus Sutra to see what I could see. I saw that the next line in the sutra is\, \nBut if even only one person can remember the name of the bodhisattva of compassion\, all are saved. \nIt’s interesting that the line about “all are saved” was left out of the koan. I suppose the minister left it out! The quote he brought to the teacher did not include that line. That’s interesting. How we can be looking at how all can be saved and not see it? \nFreshly back from a couple of weeks in Japan—which were great—it’s not about the way I felt blown off course by a fierce wind and set adrift towards the land of the flesh-eating demons. Rather\, it’s about the way I remembered the name of the bodhisattva of compassion. I will share more about that on Tuesday. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-24/
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: In the Sea of Uncertainty: Knowing the Not Knowing of Our Lives
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIn the dream\, I am floating on my back off the coast of the Big Island\, in Hawai’i. There is a gentle swell\, and the water is clear and warm\, and very deep. I look around me\, and the waters are alive with schooling fish and diving birds. I fall asleep in the dream for a time and\, when I awaken\, I realize no sharks have come\, though most of the fish and birds have moved on. The feeling of the dream is warm\, vast and inviting. \nIn recent years\, this is the kind of feeling that has visited me\, and I am sure you too\, when I keep company with “not knowing” in my life and practice. It is a greater appreciation for the vast and clear sea of life\, sea of love\, sea of light\, sea of uncertainty\, with both immediate gifts and infinite possibility. And pain\, as well. \nThere are a number of well-known koans that return us again and again to the sea of uncertainty: \n“Why are you going on pilgrimage?” asked Dizhang. “I don’t know\,” replied Fayan.\n“Who are you\, standing here before me?” inquired Emperor Wu. “I Don’t know\,” responded Bodhidharma.\nA student asked Zhao Zhou\, “If you don’t dwell in clarity\, what do you live by?” “Again\, I don’t know\,” said Zhao. \n—The Book of Serenity\, 20; The Blue Cliff Record\, 1&2 \nLast week we were having a holiday glass of wine with friends\, one of whom was recently diagnosed with cancer\, underwent chemotherapy and had his bladder removed. He said the doctor had found him to be cancer free\, and we all gave him a hearty toast. He then wryly added\, “At least until my next checkup in six months.” I thought\, “None of us can see beyond six months. We can’t even see beyond a week.” Another acquaintance\, extremely fit in his mid-80s\, broke a wrist playing tennis a couple of weeks ago\, developed sepsis and died on the first day of Hanukkah. Floating on the sea of uncertainty. \nIn some mysterious way\, the universe is constructing and deconstructing itself moment by moment. We are part of that construction project. Yet by the time we recognize our vital role\, the moment has passed and the universe has changed\, made wholly new once again. \nThis process of deepening\, of appreciation\, is without end. Many years ago\, sitting in sesshin at the small SanUn Zendo\, I was surprised to hear Koun Yamada start his teisho with the simple statement\, “In the past ten years\, my understanding of this koan has deepened immeasurably. A decade ago\, I would not be giving the same talk.” We are continually knowing not-knowing. And then not knowing that. \nThis morning we received a video clip from a friend whose house is in Altadena\, in Los Angeles. Driving down her neighborhood block is house upon house\, gutted and burned out\, with many of them still smoldering. She was certain her’s was lost\, but she comes to it and finds it still standing\, and exclaims\, “The turquoise lawn chairs survived. Amazing!” \nHunger for Something \nSometimes I long to be the woodpile\,\ncut-apart tree soon to be smoke\,\nor even the smoke itself\, \nsinewy ghost of ash and air\, going\nwhere I want to\, at least for a while. \nNeither inside nor out\, \nneither lost nor home\, no longer\na shape or a name I’ll pass through \nall the broken windows of the world.\nIt’s not a wish for consciousness to end. \nIt’s not the appetite an army has\nfor its own emptying heart\,\nbut a hunger to stand now and then \nalone on the death grounds\,\nwhere the dogs of the self are feeding. \n—Chase Twichell\, The Snow Watcher  \n  \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-42/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:OPEN TEMPLE: 11-Week Winter Meditation Pass – MEMBERS FREE
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFREE to PZI Members!\nMorning Meditations 5 Days Weekly\nWherever you are in the world\, let’s sit together.\n \nOpen Temple Pass gives you unlimited access to two morning meditations\, Mondays–Fridays\,\nJanuary 13th–March 28th\, 2025. All are welcome. PZI Members attend FREE. \nPractice leaders will ring the bells and hold a cushion for you. Join us! \n\nWeekday Schedule\nJoin in as you can\, as often as you like. \nSESSION 1 Sits in the East Temple: 7–8:00 AM Eastern Time\n(or 4–5 AM Pacific) \nSESSION 2 Sits in the West Temple: 6–7:00 AM Pacific Time\n(or 9–10 AM Eastern) \nCheck for weekly updates here.\n \n\nYour Temple Zoom Link\nThe recurring Zoom link for Open Temple access will be in your emailed receipt\,\nfor entrance to ALL morning meditations. \nPZI Members FREE\, Non-Members $125 \nQuestions? Or to check your membership status\, contact Lucas at PZI Support. \n\n\nNot a member of PZI? Now is your chance!  \nJoin us for free access to the Open Temple\, scholarships\, discounts for retreats\,\nour vast and growing library of dharma talks\, and other resources.\n \nBecome a Member
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/open-temple-winter-9-week-meditation-pass-members-free/
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CATEGORIES:Open Temple
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250112T103000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Dreams & the Fire at the End of the Universe
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nLately in California the dream is fire\, the image of transformation. \nAllison grew up in the Palisades. \nDid your childhood house on Swathmore burn?\nYes it did\, the whole of Swathmore is gone.\nHow about ancient Aunt Betty’s house in the Red Zone near the cliffs?\nIt did not fall down\, but it burned yesterday.\nAnd the Corpus Christi Church?\nAh yes\, that too. \nThe park burned\, the library burned. \nA student asked Dasui\, “In the Kalpa fire when the universe is completely destroyed\, I’m still wondering\, is there something that won’t be destroyed?”\nDasui said\, “It will be destroyed.”\n“It will follow along with everything else?”\nDasui said\, “It will follow along with everything else.” \nMany intense things happen in the dream of our lives. \nJoin us for the practice of dream and fire. \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-44/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250111T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250111T100000
DTSTAMP:20260503T090744
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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 11th here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-12/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250109T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250109T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Elemental Zen: Water
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThis past weekend we here in Kentucky were visited by winter storm Blair. What can be politely called a wintry mix fell on Sunday and Monday here on Panola Ridge. You can say we were inundated with water in all its forms but steam. It began with a soft snow accumulating up to about 6 inches\, followed by an inch or two of sleet and freezing rain\, and then finishing off with another two inches of snow on Monday. \nThe weather changed how things are done around here. The animals were fed in the barn\, chainsaws were readied for falling trees\, and batteries were charged in the event of a prolonged power outage. What is the Scout’s motto? Be Prepared. This water all around\, falling out of the sky\, is all rather basic\, elemental. \nThe elements. Before the periodic table or quantum physics\, there were the elements. In the West\, four—water\, earth\, fire\, air. And in the East\, China adds one more—wood. Or if you are from Japan\, the void. Everything is made of these elements: the rain\, the snow—yes\, and also the grass\, the cattails that grow in my ponds—the fire in the fire pit\, wood and fire. \nYour body\, too\, is elemental. Your physical form is earth; your breath\, air; your body temperature\, fire. Sometimes we burn with passion. And water throughout—blood\, urine\, tears and yes\, sweat in the summertime. Your body is earth filled with water\, 60%. \nIt’s elementary\, Watson. All that we see\, touch\, taste\, the air we breathe is elemental. For the Chan/Zen ancestors viewed all that comes into form as a gate into the formless and unknown. When we look at the record that comes to us from their sayings and doings—koans—each of the elements makes a showing. \nWater: \n\nThis is the stone (earth) drenched with rain (water)…\nBeautiful snowflakes…\nKicks over the water pitcher…\n\nFire: \n\nExtinguish the fire across the river.\nThe fire at the end of the age…\nThe god beneath the hearth…\n\nEarth: \n\nI’ve built temples and monasteries. What merit?\nBuild me a seamless monument.\nThe stone woman gives birth in the night.\n\nAir: \n\nBe an ancient tree in a high wind.\nIt is not the wind that moves\, it is not the flag…\n\nWood: \n\nThe wooden man dances…\n\nOn Thursday evening\, we will begin an occasional series looking at the elemental images of the koans as gateways into the vastness. In honor of winter storm Blair\, we will begin with water and the koan: \nThis is the stone\nDrenched with rain\nThat points the Way.\n\n—Taneda Santoka \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-37/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250107T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T090744
CREATED:20241220T212330Z
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today\, but will return on January 14th. We hope you join us then! \n\nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe.  \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-7/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250106T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T090744
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on January 13th. 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/on-break-monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-17/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250105T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250105T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN: John Tarrant on His New Book – The Story of the Buddha
DESCRIPTION:Pacific Zen Institute & Point Reyes Books Present:\nTess Beasley in Conversation\nwith Zen Teacher\, Author\, & Poet John Tarrant\nOn His New Book: The Story of the Buddha\nSunday January 5th\, 2025\n10:30–12:00 pm Pacific Time\n\n\nJoin us online for a presentation and conversation on John Tarrant’s newest book\, The Story of the Buddha. The newly released hardcover book with beautiful\, high-quality imagery is now available in the PZI Online Store. \nPrefer to listen? The audiobook is also available with narration by John himself. \nDonations of $250 or greater to the PZI year end fund will receive a signed copy! \n\nJohn Tarrant is a Zen teacher\, author\, and poet and is PZI’s founder and director. He is interested in Zen as a Way that transforms the mind and in the dance between innovation and tradition in both teaching and practice. \nRead John’s full bio here. \n\nZen as a set of rules and procedures is not so interesting to me. I learned Zen when we were still trying to find what worked in the West. And people now seem to find freedom more naturally than I had assumed during my own initial studies. \nMy experiments have led me to trust people more than I once did\, and to teach people to trust their own moves. To me this means that koans are not a gadget that you put all your effort into using. They’re an environment—you wander around and they teach you. You have to listen and look.
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/zen-luminaries-the-story-of-the-buddha-jon-joseph-in-conversation-with-zen-teacher-poet-author-john-tarrant/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241231T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241231T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today and will return on January 7th. We hope to see you then! \n\nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe.  \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241230T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241230T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Taking Refuge in Family
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe winter holidays are family time around my house. Decades ago\, my mother began a tradition of gathering her six children and our broods on Christmas Eve. A few nights ago we numbered nearly thirty. As the seasonal rains murmured through the downspouts\, we threw juniper chunks on the fire\, tucked into our potluck feast\, and later played some very silly games. \nTraditionally\, the ceremony by which Buddhist monks are ordained is called shukke (出家)—home departure—which is a grave severing of the filial duties most Asian societies expect of children. Zen’s Sixth Ancestor Huineng was making a meager living selling firewood while he and his mother suffered extreme poverty. On hearing a monk chant the Diamond Sutra\, Huineng awakened and knew he must leave his mother and travel to a monastery in the north to study Zen. He left one small family to find another. \nLayman Pang\, who lived a couple of generations after Huineng\, is probably the best known family man from the golden age of Chan-Zen. After studying with Mazu\, he traveled about with his wife and two children\, visiting various temples and teachers. \nLayman Pang and his daughter Lingzhao were selling bamboo baskets. Coming down off a bridge he stumbled and fell. When Lingzhao saw this she ran to her father’s side and threw herself on the ground.\n“What are you doing?” cried the Layman.\n“I saw Daddy fall down\, so I’m helping\,“ replied Lingzhao.\n“Luckily no one was looking\,“ remarked the Layman. \n—The Recorded Sayings of Layman Pang\, The Anecdotes \n“I take refuge in my companions\,” is the third of the PZI Refuge Vows\, which include taking refuge in awakening and the teachings. When we join a sangha\, we come together as a kind of family—as brothers and sisters on the path. It is a familial act to look after one another: a check-in\, a brief note\, sitting together in the Open Temple. This is what family members do: they fall down together on the road. And then they pick up the baskets together. \nThis is how we come to understand our relationship to the greater household we live in\, the community of all things. Rocks\, sticks\, ants and grizzly bears support us\, and it is lovely that we\, in turn\, support them. \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-41/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241229T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241229T120000
DTSTAMP:20260503T090744
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Tess Beasley & Friends: Letting the World Care for Itself
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\nWhen all thoughts\nAre exhausted\nI slip into the woods\nAnd gather\nA pile of shepherd’s purse. \nLike the little stream\nMaking its way\nThrough the mossy crevices\nI\, too\, quietly\nTurn clear and transparent \n—Taigu Ryokan \nBetween the waning of the old and promise of the new\, a space appears where nothing is yet known or defined. It is the space between breaths\, between thoughts\, between dynasties and universes. Into it returns everything that ever was\, and out of it appears laughter\, juncos\, firelight\, stars. \nIt is a space we grow intimate within practice\, and one that seems to draw especially near in the final days of each year. \nToo lazy to be ambitious\,\nI let the world take care of itself.\nTen days’ worth of rice in my bag;\na bundle of twigs by the fireplace.\nWhy chatter about delusion and enlightenment?\nListening to the night rain on my roof\,\nI sit comfortably\, with both legs stretched out \n—Taigu Ryokan \nJoin us Sunday\, December 29 for stories and discoveries\, music and companions. \n—Tess Beasley
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-39/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241226T173000
DTSTAMP:20260503T090744
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:David Parks is not teaching today. Come join us next on January 9th! \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/on-break-thursday-zen-with-david-parks-8/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241224T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241224T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T090744
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today and will return on January 7th. We hope to see you then! \n\nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe.  \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-5/
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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