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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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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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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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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on December 30th. We hope you join us then! \n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-40/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: The Mind of Winter
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nwhen the winter chrysanthemums go\,\nthere’s nothing to write about\nbut radishes \n—Basho \nI find myself hoping for snow\, which is silly. I get snow about once a decade in Sonoma County. \nInside snow\, though\, there is a slow plunge of silence\, and the mystery of who I am.\nBut\, also\, I like the noisy way we come together in winter\, singing and feeling cheery merely because others are in the world with us. Santa Claus is fun\, too. Inside Santa is also the mystery of who I am. \nI do have oranges on a tree—”golden lamps in a green night\,” an old poet called them. \nSo this Sunday let’s have snow and friendship\, or if not snow\, perhaps rain will do\, or oranges—anyway\, let’s have friendship and enlightenment. \nJoin us. \n—John Tarrant \n\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-40/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Don't Believe It! Solitary Brightness
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t Believe It! Solitary Brightness \nLinji was a Chan (Zen) Master who lived in 9th Century China. He was known for his iconoclastic ways. His clear presentations of the dharma included anything\, even shouts and blows\, to loosen a person’s grip on things. All designed to open the heart to reality\, here and now. Of course\, he is the founder of one of the great schools of Zen: the Linji School\, or in Japanese: the Rinzai School\, with its emphasis on awakening and use of koans. Here is what might be described as Linji’s root teaching: \nWhatever confronts you\, don’t believe it. \nWhen something appears shine your light on it.\nHave confidence in the light that is always working inside you. \nWhatever Confronts You… \nThere is a vastness to my life\, to your life. This immensity extends beyond my ability to comprehend. It is before good and evil\, before birth and death. And it is home. There is consciousness before content\, life before the life we hold onto\, with which we find our separate identity. We all know this\, and we all have caught a glimpse as the sun sets\, the flower opens\, as we sit beside the bed of a sick friend. Within this vastness\, thoughts arise\, personalities arise\, things around us change—there is no-thing apart from the vast expanse of reality\, no change that is not a part of the whole. Yet\, when something comes\, in an effort to make sense of life\, we grab hold\, identify with it—reify it\, literally\, “make it into something.” For this reason Linji says… \nDon’t Believe It. \nAs thoughts are held\, they begin\, like newly poured concrete\, to set and harden. They become belief—about reality\, about ourselves in relationship to the vastness. We set ourselves up\, defining ourselves apart from the larger life\, a self separate from\, far away from\, home. \nSometimes we dare to cut into the mystery and proclaim to “know who we are.” Enter Linji—“If it pops up\,” he shouts\, “if a thought comes\, if it confronts you\, don’t believe it!” Wisely\, he admonishes us to eschew anything with which we might separate ourselves from life\, anything that might shrink our world. This is something we all confront. Human beings\, each one of us\, develops a personal reality filled with belief\, about ourselves\, about others\, and about the larger life\, the reality within which we swim. \nRecently\, I came face to face with one of my core beliefs: \nNo-one loves me. \nI am not sure where this thought first emerged\, not sure when I took hold. Perhaps as a child when I was chosen last for kickball. Or perhaps coming when I was being reprimanded by some adult for some action done or left undone. Or maybe\, or maybe\, or maybe…With this belief\, I learned that I could\, and needed to\, charm my way through my life; that I could work hard and earn folk’s love. Indeed\, work really hard and procure the love of God. As I carried this belief and worked to impress others\, to charm Reality itself\, I actually cut myself off from others and became less available\, not more; less vulnerable\, unapproachable. \nThis is how attachment to a core belief works\, causing Hakuin to write\, \nPeople miss what’s in front of them\nand go searching far from home.\nIt’s sad\, like someone standing in water\nand crying out in thirst\,\nor a child from a rich family\nstruggling among the poor. \nIt is this very sadness\, this loneliness\, that calls me to spiritual practice. \nWhen Something Appears Shine Your Light On It. \nHere is the heart of spiritual practice. Usually we don’t want to question our beliefs. We take them for reality—they are set hard in our lives\, the concrete upon which we stand. Because of our hard identification of ourselves with the contents of our consciousness\, we take these “things” to be our reality. We will fight and die for our perceptions of the world. For this reason we have a big “No Trespassing” sign on our beliefs — no one need question them\, least of all ourselves. We assume that if we question our beliefs the world as we know it might end (it will)\, and we live in fear of losing our identity. So\, to the no trespassing sign\, Linji’s teaching takes it the other way\, “Shine your light on it.” \nLinji also gave a koan that points to your light\, to my light. He calls it a solitary brightness. Here you go: \nThere is a solitary brightness without fixed shape or form. \nIt knows how to express the teachings and listen to the teachings.\nThat solitary brightness is you\, right here before my eyes. \nBefore there was belief\, before any self-image or identification\, there is a solitary brightness. A name for the vast reality of Life as-it-is\, is solitary brightness. This is your light\, you are that light. This is the light before you even gave a thought to yourself. This is the light that shines in all things—even your beliefs about things. This light of larger life\, is present. In practice\, we are present to this light. As things arise in this life\, as we are confronted with thoughts\, perceptions\, etc…they shine with this light. Perceiving this\, the bottom drops out of our identifications and are apprehended\, seized by the light. As Linji says\, “That solitary brightness is you.” \nFor me\, this meant holding this big sadness\, this no-one-loves-me-I-think-I’ll-eat-worms mind. It meant daring to trespass into the my self-imposed exile from reality and to live into a naked trust. For me this meant sobbing on my cushion\, it meant living within energies that seemed at times overwhelming. And yes\, the bottom drops out of all that\, as the doors never shut\, now beckon. Linji’s voice resounds\, “That solitary brightness is you.” \nAnd that is the last word\, that and\, “Always have confidence in that light which is working inside you.” \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-36/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Dongshan’s Second View
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYou find yourself to be an old woman\nYou’re sleeping late.\nWhen you wake up you come upon an ancient mirror\nAnd you see your own face clearly.\nTry not to lose sight of it again and go chasing shadows. \n—2nd of Dongshan’s Five Ranks \nAs I’ve spent time with Dongshan’s second perspective—on the relationship between form and emptiness—I continue to be interested in using Dogen’s writings to get a perspective on Dongshan’s perspective. \nPossibly the most well known of Dogen’s statements appears in his writings on the Genjokoan\, sometimes translated as “The Way of Everyday Life.” \nThis statement is a kind of verse\, Dogen’s capping phrase on the relationship between form and emptiness. It goes something like this: \nTo study the Way is to study the self.\nTo study the self is to forget the self.\nTo forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.\nTo be enlightened by the ten thousand things is to free one’s body and mind and those of others.\nNo trace of enlightenment remains.\nAnd this traceless enlightenment continues forever. \nDogen’s “to forget the self” resonates with Dongshan’s\, “you see a face from long ago that you do not recognize.” It makes sense that if I forget myself\, I will not recognize myself. But more than that\, it speaks to experiencing the un-recognizability of the self\, the un-graspability of the self. \nDongshan’s second perspective feels connected to Dogen’s\, “To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.” When we see ourselves clearly\, as the old woman does when she looks in the mirror\, everything we look at has our face. More than a mirror—it’s like a window looking out on the 10\,000 things. \nI’m still sitting with finding myself to be an old woman\, what’s that about? \nMore on Tuesday\, see you then. \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-21/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: There Is a Light That Shines in All of Us
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunmen taught\, “Everybody has a light inside of them. Sometimes it is dark\, dark and dim\, and hard to see. What is the light that shines in you?” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 86 \nZen is about seeing and appreciating the light in all things. Some of that is finding the light within the light: This early winter morning\, broken sunshine illuminated wet grass in the olive orchard across the drive. The grass\, thickened in the seasonal rains. \nPerhaps the greatest work is in realizing the light within the dark: This afternoon an unhoused woman stood in the portico of the local Walmart\, soaked from the cold rain\, possessions in the shopping cart standing by her. Perhaps she was weighing her options. She too shone with a kind of light. \nA few nights ago classics translator Emily Wilson visited with us and reflected on the light within the dark in her work. Of The Iliad\, Homer’s poem of the Trojan War\, she writes: “Human mortality is at the center of it all …” Yet The Iliad makes the whole world feel gloriously alive. \nHow is that possible—so much death and so much life? So much blood and so many tears? \nWilson ends her introduction like this: \nYou already know the story. You will die. Everyone you love will die. You will lose them forever. You will be sad and angry. You will weep. You will bargain. You will make demands. You will beg. You will pray. It will make no difference. Nothing you can do will bring them back. You know this. Your knowing changes nothing. This poem will make you understand this unfathomable truth again and again. \nIn the above koan it is Yunmen who guides us toward appreciating the unfathomable by celebrating the fathomable. He points to the fact that the light is only knowable in its ordinariness\, in its expression of this complicated life. In responding to his own question\, “What is the light that shines in you?” Yunmen answers “Kitchen pantry and temple gate.” Dark and dim\, how wonderful that it shines on this plain of Troy. \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-39/
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Endarkening – Deeper Into the World
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nLost and in the Dark \nYou come and go by daylight\, you make people out by daylight.\nBut suddenly it’s midnight and there’s no sun\, no moon\, no light.\nIf it’s a place you’ve been to\, then of course it might be possible\,\nbut if it’s a place you’ve never been\, how will you get ahold of something? \n—Yunmen \nZen takes us deeper. We feel\, taste\, touch\, hear\, see\, and remember the world in a complete meeting. We become what we see. \nWe do this when our thoughts stop telling us what to do\, think\, and feel. \nOne way of considering this is that the thoughts fall out of our mind\, and we are in darkness. That is where we can become true to ourselves. This is where the enchantment of the world is all around us. \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-41/
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 December 14th here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-11/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Koan Leavening
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nQuickly\, before thinking good and evil\,\nwhat is your original face before your parents were born? \n—Huineng \nFor the last fifty years I have baked bread. By my mother’s side\, I learned to bake bread that looked less like a chemistry project when you read the label and more like food. Flour\, yeast\, water and salt—simple ingredients for the staple of life. Of these ingredients\, yeast is the catalyst. It brings about the transformation. \nThere is a parable that notices this: It is like the yeast a baker uses in making bread. Even though she puts only a little yeast in three measures of flour\, it permeates every part of the dough. Domesticated or wild\, it will bring about transformation. \nA few things about the yeast: \nIt is all around us. Yeast is in the air. I have a friend who visited us here in Kentucky and collected yeast at the Buffalo Trace Distillery by leaving a little flour out on the grounds of the distillery. The flour receives the yeast\, the whole loaf is transformed. \nIt is alive. \nYeast grows and as it does change happens. \nThe vast web of interconnection and change is without bounds. It reaches everywhere. The koans\, too\, are a part of this vastness\, inviting us in. The koans are alive. \nAs yeast joins the flour\, the bloom begins. When you receive a koan\, sometimes from a teacher or sometimes it just arrives\, you welcome the koan into your body\, heart\, and mind. You begin to see your complete life reflected in the koan. Things come alive. You come alive. Your life begins to foam and bloom. \nAs the koan holds you\, a dialogue of sorts will ensue around who you think you are and what you think life is. Perhaps the koan will show you how with your concepts\, ideas and beliefs\, you hold yourself apart your life\, from the vastness. Your relationship with a koan is personal\, vibrant and direct — it is for you alone. It will move with you\, live with you. You and all that you do is “in” the koan. \nAs you awaken to life apart from your image of self\, things shift. You find yourself in the transformation ongoing from moment to moment. \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-35/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:ZEN LUMINARIES: Jon Joseph in Conversation with Classicist & Author Emily Wilson — Western Koans: The Goddesses and Women of Homer
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIn the old days there were sixteen bodhisattvas. When it was time to bathe they got into the bath together. They suddenly realized the cause of water and said\, “This subtle touch releases the brightness. We have become the sons and daughters of the Buddha.” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 78 \nThere is something about the above koan that reminds me of the warriors\, women\, and gods of The Iliad. Their bath is on the plains of Troy\, where they find themselves immersed in love\, fighting\, tears\, and\, ultimately\, death. “Human mortality is at the center of it all\,” writes classics translator Emily Wilson. “I know of no other narrative that evokes with such unflinching truthfulness the vulnerability of the human body.” \nPerhaps more than anything\, The Iliad centers on the story of two great warriors: the Greek Achilles and the Trojan Hector. After Hector kills Achilles’ dear friend Patroclus\, Achilles seeks murderous revenge\, finally cutting Hector down. The gods wish Hector to have a proper burial\, and direct his proud and grieving father\, Priam\, to go to Achilles’ camp and offer ransom for Hector’s body. On arrival\, wholly exposed to his enemy\, old Priam supplicates himself. \nThis made Achilles yearn\nto mourn for his father. With his hand\, he gently\ntook hold of the old man and pushed him back.\nThen both remembered whom they had lost.\nCurled like a ball beside Achilles’ feet\nPriam sobbed desperately for murderous Hector.\nAchilles wept\, at times for his own father\,\nand sometimes for Patroclus.\nSo their wailing suffused the house. \nWilson writes\, “I have now lived with this poem for some thirty-five years—rereading it\, teaching it in the original and in various translations\, and now\, rendering it into English. For the last six years\, I have worked intensively on this translation. But even now\, when I turn back to lines I have read hundreds of times already\, I find that the raw power of the Greek still startles me\, like Athena suddenly tugging Achilles by the hair to stop him in his tracks. Often\, I am unable to read without goose bumps\, tears\, or both.” \n\nEmily Wilson is a British American classicist\, author\, and translator. In 2018\, she became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer’s Odyssey. Her translation of the Iliad was released in September 2023. \nWilson is Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She attended Oxford University and Yale University\, receiving a Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature. \nWilson has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and Early Modern scholarship\, a MacArthur Fellow\, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Philadelphia with her family and pets. \nMore books by Emily Wilson: Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004)\, The Death of Socrates: Hero\, Villain\, Chatterbox\, Saint (2007)\, and The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca (2014) \nsources: Wikipedia\, emilyrcwilson.com \n\nThe effect [of Wilson’s translation] is not so much to bring the characters of the Iliad into the contemporary sphere\, as to bring us into theirs. … A poem you read with your heart in your throat. \n—A. E. Stallings\, The Spectator\, September 2023 \n\nThis event is funded in part by the 2024 Frederick P. Lenz Foundation “Women in Buddhism” Grant.\n\n \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 $50—250. \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/zen-luminaries-jon-joseph-in-conversation-with-classicist-author-emily-wilson/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Dongshan’s Five Ranks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIt’s past midnight\nthe moon has not yet risen.\nIn the deep dark you see a face from long ago\nthat you do not recognize.\nNo need to be surprised by this. \nThis is the first of Dongshan’s Five Ranks. “Rank” engages my ranking mind and perhaps that’s the point—an opportunity to know more deeply the way my mind ranks. Alternate translations are “modes\,” “vantage points\,” “perspectives\,” or “angles.” \nThe Five Ranks don’t necessarily occur in the order that they are presented nor are they neatly separate from each other. They’re sometimes likened to Linji’s four modes. \nThis first mode of Dongshan’s is called various things: “the contingent within the essential\,” “the phenomenon within the universal\,” “the particular within the universal”—you get the idea. Perhaps Linji’s description will help: “Sometimes I steal the place\, but not the person.” \nLinji went on to say a bit more about this mode: \nThe rule of the sovereign prevails throughout the world;\nthe general in the borderlands is unstained by smoke and dust. \nBeen out to the borderlands lately? \nThe Chinese characters for “particular” and “universal” literally mean “straight or upright” and “slanted or askew.” Intuitively that feels right just as “bouba” feels round and “kiki” feels pointed. \nThat the moon has not risen—a moonless night—reminds me of another koan: \nThe moon set at midnight;\nwe walk through the town alone.  \nEver done that? \nThe Japanese teacher Keizan’s comment: \nIf you release a blackbird at night\, it flies clothed in snow. \nSeen any blackbirds flying at night lately? \nSee you on Tuesday to compare notes. \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-22/
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:Jon Joseph is not teaching today and will return on December 16th. We hope to see you 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-16/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T120000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:John Tarrant is away at the PZI Leadership Retreat and will return on December 15th. We hope to see you then! \n\nWaking up is what we do together in the online Temple. We love it when you join us. \n—John Tarrant & 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/on-break-sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-12/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241203T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Not Knowing Is Most Intimate
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDizang asked Fayan\, “Where are you going from here?”\nFayan said\, “I’m on pilgrimage.”\n“What sort of thing is pilgrimage?”\n“I don’t know.”\n“Not knowing is most intimate.”\nFayan suddenly had a great awakening. \nThis meeting between Dizang and Fayan occurred while Fayan was on pilgrimage with some of his fellow monks\, when they were forced to take shelter at Dizang’s monastery in a sudden snowstorm. When the snow stopped and they were ready to leave\, Dizang asked Fayan the question that begins the koan: \nWhere are you going from here? \nEvidently Fayan’s companions were not as impressed with Dizang’s statement about “not knowing” as Fayan was. They pressed on with their pilgrimage and Fayan chose to stay with Dizang for a while. We are told that Fayan had a great awakening at hearing Dizang’s words. That he chose to stay longer says something about there being no end to practice even after great awakening. \nTrying to clarify his experience during his time with Dizang\, in response to whatever he brought to the teacher\, Dizang would say\, “The teachings are not like that.” \nFinally Fayan decided to continue on with his pilgrimage. On the day of his departure Dizang accompanied him to the gate of the temple. He said to Fayan\, “I have heard you say many times that everything is in the mind. What about that boulder next to the gate? Is it in the mind also?” Fayan replied\, “Yes\, it is.” To which Dizang said\, “Isn’t it going to be difficult to go on pilgrimage with a boulder in your mind?” At that point Fayan had another great awakening experience and decided to stay a bit longer with Dizang. \nDuring that additional time\, every time Fayan spoke with Dizang trying to clarify his understanding\, Dizang would say\, “The teachings are not like that.” Finally\, Fayan came to Dizang and said\, “I have used up everything\, my mind is empty\, I have nothing to say.” At which point Dizang said\, “It is exactly that empty mind in which mountains and rivers and the boulder next to the temple gate appear.” At which point Fayan had another great awakening experience taking him deeper into “not knowing being most intimate.” \nIt is not easy to not know. We must forget what we know and forget that we have forgotten. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-23/
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:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: It's Complicated: Odysseus Returns Home
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nTell me about a complicated man.\nMuse\, tell me how he wandered and was lost\nwhen he had wrecked the holy town of Troy\,\nand where he went\, and who he met\, the pain\nhe suffered on the sea … Now goddess\, child of Zeus\,\ntell the old story of our modern times.\nFrom the beginning. \n—The Odyssey by Homer\, translated by Emily Wilson \nSo opens the nearly three-thousand-year-old Greek epic about a man trying to return to his original home. This tale is not very different from our own wandering in the Chan-Zen tradition. Perhaps it is wholly the same. \nDizang asks Fayan\, “Where are you going?\nLost\, Fayan responds\, “I am wandering\, trying to get back to my true home.”\n“Why are you doing that?”\n“I am not at all sure\,” replies Fayan.\n“Being lost\, being unsure\, that itself is your original home\,” answers Dizang. \nWhen The Odyssey opens\, our hero—sacker of cities\, trickster\, beggar\, pirate\, loving husband and father—is being held captive by the alluring and powerful nymph Calypso\, who wishes to keep him as her lover for all eternity. Instead\, forlorn\, he sits all day long on the shore of her island\, weeping for the family and community he has not seen in two decades. Rather than the immortality of the gods that she is offering\, he wishes instead to once again “see the smoke that rises/from his own homeland\, and he wants to die.” \nEmily Wilson’s translation of the classic is “majestic as literature gets\,” writes one critic. She brings forth the light of this one hero’s journey that shines through all ages\, regions and cultures. It radiates with the nature\, which is our self nature. There is an immediacy\, intimacy and familiarity in both the story and the translation that allows us to embody the journey and know it to be our own. \nTell me about a complicated man and woman\, who have wandered and have been lost\, who have done both wonderful and awful things\, and who now just wish to return home to their hearths and families. Tell me\, Muse\, an old story of our modern times. \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-38/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241201T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: At the Cliff Edge of Life and Death
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\nAt the Cliff Edge of Life and Death \nAn atmospheric river and a bomb cyclone\,\nin the dry lands the sag ponds and vernal pools are overflowing.\nThe frogs are singing\, “This\, this\, is what we always wanted!”\nThe man with the diagnosis—feels happy nonetheless.\nThe season turns very\, very cold.\nA man walks a thousand miles for a dharma conversation.\n“How do you find the joy of life?”\nWhen you are close to the edge\, there it is. \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-42/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241128T173000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:David Parks is not teaching today. Come join us next on December 12th! \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-7/
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:20241126T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241126T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T114412
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Coral Moonlight
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nBaling’s Three Turning Words \nWhat is Zen?\nSnow in a silver bowl. \nWhat is the Way?\nThe clearly enlightened person falls into a well. \nWhat is the blown-hair sword?\nEach branch of coral holds up the moon. \nHaving spent time with the clearly enlightened person falling into a well and then with each branch of coral holding up the moon\, I suppose it was only natural for snow in a silver bowl to come along to complete the triptych of Baling’s Three Turning Words. The refuge vows also came along to join in the conversation. Perhaps Yunmen also appreciated the parallel. \nAt the time\, it was the custom to present a poem to your teacher when you had an awakening experience. Instead of a poem\, Baling offered these three koans to his teacher. Yunmen responded\, “On the anniversary of my death\, just recite these three turning words\, and you will have repaid my kindness in full.” \nFor me\, the first of the refuge vows\, taking refuge in awakening\, is the first of Baling’s turning words. You might ask yourself\, ”What is it about the image of snow in a silver bowl that could be about awakening?” \nThe second refuge vow\, taking refuge in the Way\, is kind of a no-brainer. The Way is a clearly enlightened person falling into a well. You might ask yourself\, “What is it about a clearly enlightened person falling into a well that is the Way?” \nAnd finally\, the third refuge vow\, taking refuge in my companions/community. Again\, you might ask yourself\, “What is it about each branch of coral holding up the moon that speaks to taking refuge in community?” \nI will be continuing to ask myself these questions and we all will have the opportunity to share the results 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/on-break-tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today. Come join us next on December 2nd! \n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-15/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241124T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241124T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Snowed In – Companions to Be Thankful For
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIn a temple\, people sit together and forget themselves. We forget the thoughts in our heads\, our family sorrows\, our disapproval of\, well\, of so many things. It’s as if we are all snowed in. \nThen we might notice a field effect—we are connected to each other\, often in ways that we don’t necessarily understand. Our friendships are deep and mysterious and change us; we all get enlightened together. \nLong ago\, two friends were snowed in on Tortoise Mountain. \nWe’ll explore this matter of how we are linked together and how important friendship can be in difficult times. Something to be grateful for. \nJoin us 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-38/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241123T100000
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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 November 23rd here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-10/
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:20241119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: The Red Thread
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nAt our last gathering of Tuesday Zen\, I fell into a well and didn’t even realize it until the next morning. Although I had prepared to discuss the red thread koan\, I spent the whole evening talking about the fully awakened person falling into a well\, believing that was the koan I had actually planned on talking about. \nIt wasn’t a choice. I wasn’t aware of what I had done until the next morning\, having completely fallen into the well of the well koan. So\, this coming Tuesday\, I plan on bringing the red thread koan\, again. I’m curious to see what happens. \nThere is an old Chinese story featuring the red thread\, involving a young boy. \nWalking home one night a boy saw an old man standing in the moonlight. The man explained to the boy that a red thread was connecting him to his destined wife. The old man then showed him the girl who was destined to be his wife. Being young and having no interest in having a wife\, the boy picked up a rock\, threw it at her\, and ran away.  \nMany years later\, when the boy had grown into a young man\, his parents arranged a wedding for him. On the night of his wedding\, his wife waited for him in their bedroom\, with the traditional veil covering her face. Raising it\, the man was delighted to find that his wife was a great beauty. However\, she wore an adornment on her eyebrow. She explained that when she was a girl\, a boy threw a rock that struck her face\, leaving a scar on her eyebrow. She wore the adornment to cover it up. It was the same young girl\, connected to him by the red thread\, that the old man had revealed to him when he was a boy.   \nThe lesson of this old Chinese story would seem to be that you can’t fight fate. \nBuddhism took the story\, as it took many other stories and images from the existing Chinese culture\, and tweaked it. The way it changed is reminiscent of Indra’s Net\, a metaphor dating back to the pre-Hindu Vedic tradition\, used to describe the interconnectedness of all things. Indra’s Net has a jewel at each intersection which reflects all other jewels in the net. It is an image not only of interconnectedness but also of interpenetration. \nA millennium later Leonardo DaVinci put it this way\, “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” An alternate translation I have seen has it as\, “Everything is everything.” Half a millennium after Leonardo\, the Beatles put it this way\, “I am you and you are me and we are all together.” \nAs for the rock throwing in the original Chinese story\, it is not fate we resist\, it is our interconnectedness and interpenetration that we resist—the result of the anxiety of the self losing its rank. \nThrown any rocks lately? \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-19/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today. Come join us next on December 2nd! \n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-14/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241117T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241117T120000
DTSTAMP:20260503T114413
CREATED:20241029T185319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241118T194930Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Beauty Slips Around the Guards
DESCRIPTION:Even moonlight itself transforms the heart. It bathes the trees\, it touches the slowly curling wave\, it opens a barely discernible path in the garden and in the streets. \nThe problems that seemed so well defined in daylight are revealed to be mysterious. You can see that everything has a secret inner life and you do\, too. \nIn moonlight the stones and walls are considering us as well. \nZazen is a form of moonlight. \nJoin us for Sunday Temple. \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-37/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241116T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241116T160000
DTSTAMP:20260503T114413
CREATED:20240826T223106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T175757Z
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SUMMARY:DAYLONG Retreat with John Tarrant & Tess Beasley: Zen and the Goddess Part II: Psyche & Eros
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nZen and the Goddess Part II: Psyche & Eros \n\nStories of Fall\, Love\, Soul\, and the Great Currents of Life \nThe most marvelous story is about a beautiful girl abandoned to a monster on a mountainside—because\, why? Well—envy\, greed\, family wars: the usual. \nAnd the monster turned out to be not what was expected\, for either the monster himself or the girl. In this story of love and the soul\, everyone transforms. You and I transform. \nThe seasons need companions just like we do. \nI am seized and captured by autumn but really I turn into a companion to autumn. The leaves fall\, the view is clearer. The obstacles are not what I thought\, kindness is near at hand. \nIn Zen\, the sun\, the moon\, and the stars are our friends. My life will not last forever but each day lasts forever. \nWe offer retreats at the quarters of the year. Join us for a one-day online retreat to mark the deepening and companionship that come in autumn. \n—John Tarrant & Tess Beasley \n\n \nPZI Online Temple\nSaturday\, November 16th\, 2024\n9:30 am–4:00 pm Pacific Time \nRetreat Day Details\nMorning Session: 9:30 am–12:30 pm\nBreak: 12:30–1:30 pm\nAfternoon Session: 1:30–4:00 pm \nMembers\, $75\, Non-Members\, $100 \nPZI Member Scholarship: Members\, if you want to attend and are in need\, don’t hesitate to request financial aid for a reduced fee that you can comfortably pay. Not a member? Become one. \nRegistration or scholarship questions?\nLinda Pelton\, at linda.pelton@sympatico.ca \n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nDaylong Retreat at 9:30 am Pacific Time \n\nThis event is funded in part by the 2024 Frederick P. Lenz Foundation “Women in Buddhism” Grant.
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/daylong-retreat-with-john-tarrant-tess-beasley-zen-and-the-goddess-part-ii/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:1-Day Retreat,PZI Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T173000
DTSTAMP:20260503T114413
CREATED:20241029T193823Z
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Falling Down\, Together
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhat is the way?\nThe clear-eyed person falls into a well.\n \n—PZI Miscellaneous Koans Case 74b \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—From the Recorded Sayings of Layman Pang \nThese two koans take us places—down\, down\, down the well; falling\, falling\, and then off the bridge; stumbling\, falling into a ditch. \nThere is a magic in the moment when we meet. In unadorned meeting\, life meets life. Lingzhao throws herself down to the ground with her father. She takes the “exquisite risk” to fall down too\, to be there in life apart from her beliefs\, ideas\, the need to justify herself as kind or helpful. \nMany of us sang this nursery rhyme in kindergarten: \nRing around the Rosie\,\nA pocket full of posies\,\nAshes! Ashes!\nWe all fall down. \nAnd that’s it: If we are all in for life\, we will fall. \nWhen I fall it is always a surprise. I step onto the front sidewalk on a winter’s day\, a fleeting thought as I tumble down: “Black ice.” After the crash landing I look up\, laughing out loud: “That’s not what I expected.” Or I can be working in the kitchen with a new friend\, our hands accidentally touch\, and I find I care for her deeply even though we just met. Falling onto the ground\, falling in love. We all fall down\, bidding adieu to the realm of the expected\, the life we thought we had. The world becomes new\, uncertain and unpredictable. \nFinding myself in this place\, often I will say to myself\, “This is not what I signed up for.” A friend dies and I wake up in grief. A relationship ends; I am no longer who I thought I was. Your child is born and you fall into something you could not know: fatherhood\, motherhood. A friend of mine sits on the porch watching the sun rise\, and her world pivots: all is new. We fall into grace. \nThe truth? It is never what we sign up for. Life is uncertain\, dark. Expectations fall away\, desires shed. We fall into not knowing. And this is it—the vastness\, grace\, love\, God—doesn’t matter what you call it. As Dylan sang\, “It’s life and life only.” \nTogether we rest in the Dao\, the continual unfolding\, the life that is always changing. With luck we fall down together and wake up. The universe calls roll. “Here!” we respond. \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-34/
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:20241112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T114413
CREATED:20241029T192204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T202110Z
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: The Red Thread
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThere is an old Chinese story featuring the red thread\, involving a young boy. \nWalking home one night a boy saw an old man standing in the moonlight. The man explained to the boy that a red thread was connecting him to his destined wife. The old man then showed him the girl who was destined to be his wife. Being young and having no interest in having a wife\, the boy picked up a rock\, threw it at her\, and ran away.  \nMany years later\, when the boy had grown into a young man\, his parents arranged a wedding for him. On the night of his wedding\, his wife waited for him in their bedroom\, with the traditional veil covering her face. Raising it\, the man was delighted to find that his wife was a great beauty. However\, she wore an adornment on her eyebrow. She explained that when she was a girl\, a boy threw a rock that struck her face\, leaving a scar on her eyebrow. She wore the adornment to cover it up. It was the same young girl\, connected to him by the red thread\, that the old man had revealed to him when he was a boy.   \nThe lesson of this old Chinese story would seem to be that you can’t fight fate. \nBuddhism took the story\, as it took many other stories and images from the existing Chinese culture\, and tweaked it. The way it changed is reminiscent of Indra’s Net\, a metaphor dating back to the pre-Hindu Vedic tradition\, used to describe the interconnectedness of all things. Indra’s Net has a jewel at each intersection which reflects all other jewels in the net. It is an image not only of interconnectedness but also of interpenetration. \nA millennium later Leonardo DaVinci put it this way\, “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” An alternate translation I have seen has it as\, “Everything is everything.” Half a millennium after Leonardo\, the Beatles put it this way\, “I am you and you are me and we are all together.” \nAs for the rock throwing in the original Chinese story\, it is not fate we resist\, it is our interconnectedness and interpenetration that we resist—the result of the anxiety of the self losing its rank. \nThrown any rocks 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-peach-blossoms/
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:20241111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241111T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T114413
CREATED:20241029T190158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241029T190742Z
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today. Come join us next on December 2nd! \n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-13/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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