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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241202T193000
DTSTAMP:20260505T031145
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241201T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241201T120000
DTSTAMP:20260505T031145
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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:20260505T031145
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T193000
DTSTAMP:20260505T031145
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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
DTSTAMP:20260505T031145
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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
DTSTAMP:20260505T031145
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T193000
DTSTAMP:20260505T031145
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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:20260505T031145
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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:20260505T031145
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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: All Things Fall Under the Law of Change
DESCRIPTION:The Diamond Sutra says\, \nAll things fall under the law of change;\nall of existence\, all the conditioned paths\nare like a dream\, a waterfall\, an illusion\, a bubble\, a shadow;\nlike dew and like a flash of lightning:\nthis is how you should contemplate it. \nWhen Subhuti heard the Buddha’s words\, he understood their meaning and was moved to tears. He said\, \n“If you hear this sutra\, and understand it\, receiving and upholding it is no longer difficult. If there shall come into the world\, after five hundred years\, beings who hear this sermon with sincere understanding\, receiving and upholding it\, then they would be made most extraordinary. What is the reason? These people would be without the views of a self. Why is that? The view of self then is this non-sign. The views of a person then are this non-sign. What is the reason? Departing\, from all signs\, they then are called Buddhas.” \nThe world is not what we name it or think it\, and there is no such thing as a self or an other. \nThis is a wisdom that does not aim at completion and explanation. \n—John Tarrant \nOur Pacific Zen Mission: \nWhat we do is to provide a vessel for awakening. We keep the old wisdom alive. People go out into the world and do good work and we provide a place where they can grow wise and reflect and be consoled and free even when things are very difficult. This is the famous bodhisattva path. Thank you for showing up and helping us. \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-36/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Entering the Bath Together
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIn the old days there were sixteen bodhisattvas.\nThey all got into the bath together and realized the cause of water.\nThey called out\, “This subtle touch reveals the light that is in everything.” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 78 \nBeing in retreat last week felt like this koan\, though it was more like fifty bodhisattvas entering the bath together. \nDuring the course of retreat I heard various experiences of entering the water. Some people entered the water easily but after a couple of days things got too hot. Others had a hard time getting in from the get go\, lowering themselves slowly inch by inch. Some folks seemed to dive in\, with various results. \nThe same was true for the sixteen bodhisattvas in the version of this story that appears in the Surangama Sutra. That version goes on to say\, \nWe did not wash off dirt\, did not wash the body.\nWe achieved peace of mind and obtained the state of no-possession. \nIf you have ever entered a bath so hot that once you were in you didn’t want to move because each movement renewed the experience of first entering the water\, which was no easy matter\, then I think you have some idea of what obtaining a “state of no-possession” is like. \nAs if to emphasize the point about not washing dirt off\, Xuedou\, who first collected the one hundred cases of the Blue Cliff Record\, commented in his verse on this case: \nIf the sixteen ancients said they were enlightened\,\nLet them emerge from the scented water\, and I would spit at them! \nWe don’t do this practice to purify ourselves\, to rid ourselves of delusions. If that is what you are doing\, watch out for Xuedou’s spit. \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-20/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: The Sweetest Fig: Gifts From Unexpected Quarters
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThis very place is paradise\,\nthis very body the Buddha. \n—Hakuin Ekaku\, Praise Song for Meditation \nWar\, conflict\, argument. These times have long been with us\, and because inside and outside are not two\, they penetrate our hearts and minds. Like the Bodhisattva of Compassion\, we cannot help but hear and see the cries of the world. But is it so strange to consider relief from those cries coming from simple\, unexpected quarters? \nThis year we had a tremendous harvest of figs from our family tree. And after making jam and pickled figs\, I slowly dry several pounds of fruit in the oven. Each afternoon\, as I take out a couple of figs from the plastic bag in the fridge\, I think of Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem about her Palestinian father\, a journalist who was a passionate lover of figs. \n“Appreciate your life\,” one of my Zen teachers often said. I take a dried fig in hand\, and feeling its leathery skin\, I hear the crunch of seeds between my teeth and taste the sweet pulp of its fruit. Because inside and outside are not two\, the precious fig-ness spills out to the far corners of the world\, making it a bit more rich in being. \nLast week\, like thousands of others\, I sent Naomi—a Pacific Zen Luminary—a note of congratulations for having received the prestigious Wallace Stevens Award for poetry. Her reply\, which included thanks\, was perfect Naomi: “I will try to be worthy!” Too late; already accomplished. Worthy of the largest\, fattest\, sweetest fig in the world. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nMy Father and the Fig Tree \nFor other fruits\, my father was indifferent.\nHe’d point at the cherry trees and say\,\n“See those? I wish they were figs.”\nIn the evening he sat by my bed\nweaving folktales like vivid little scarves.\nThey always involved a figtree.\nEven when it didn’t fit\, he’d stick it in.\nOnce Joha was walking down the road\nand he saw a fig tree.\nOr\, he tied his donkey to a figtree\nand went to sleep.\nOr\, later when they caught and arrested him\,\nhis pockets were full of figs. \nAt age six I ate a dried fig and shrugged.\n“That’s not what I’m talking about!” he said.\n“I’m talking about a fig straight from the earth –\ngift of Allah! — on a branch so heavy it touches the ground.\nI’m talking about picking the largest\, fattest\, sweetest fig\nin the world and putting it in my mouth.”\n(Here he’d stop and close his eyes.) \nYears passed\, we lived in many houses\, none had figtrees.\nWe had lima beans\, zucchini\, parsley\, beets.\n“Plant one!” my mother said. but my father never did.\nHe tended garden half-heartedly\, forgot to water\,\nlet the okra get too big.\n“What a dreamer he is. Look how many things he starts\nand doesn’t finish.” \nThe last time he moved\, I got a phone call.\nMy father\, in Arabic\, chanting a song I’d never heard.\n“What’s that?”\n“Wait til you see!”\nHe took me out back to the new yard.\nThere\, in the middle of Dallas\, Texas\,\na tree with the largest\, fattest\, sweetest figs in the world.\n“It’s a figtree song!” he said\,\nplucking his fruits like ripe tokens\,\nemblems\, assurance\nof a world that was always his own. \n—Naomi Shihab Nye\, from Everything Comes Next \n\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-37/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:OPEN TEMPLE: Late Fall 9-Week Meditation Pass – MEMBERS FREE
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\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\,\nNovember 4th–January 3rd\, 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\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. \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\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/open-temple-late-fall-9-week-meditation-pass-members-free/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Open Temple
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SUMMARY:Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends: So Far\, So Good
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSo Far\, So Good\nPublic life is full of tyrannosaurs\, pterodactyls and oligarchs. Elections can turn out well and also badly. We’re not here for long and we’re surrounded by cultural madness. As a pilgrim of the way our job is to tiptoe through the monsters. Uncertainty greets us every morning. So let’s have it\, really have this life full of stars\, sparrows singing\, mad leaders\, and kindness to each other. That last bit is really important; it means being unselfish. \nThe sunlight whispers\, “Don’t despair.” We have to find our own journey and our own true lives. Even rhinoceroses have to do it\, and wombats too\, walking the great way. \nKeep walking the dharma path\, friends. \nJoin us this Sunday. \n—John Tarrant \n\n“Curriculum Vitae” by Lisel Mueller \n1) I was born in a Free City\, near the North Sea. \n2) In the year of my birth\, money was shredded into\nconfetti. A loaf of bread cost a million marks. Of\ncourse I do not remember this. \n3) Parents and grandparents hovered around me. The\nworld I lived in had a soft voice and no claws. \n4) A cornucopia filled with treats took me into a building\nwith bells. A wide-bosomed teacher took me in. \n5) At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth. \n6) On Sundays the city child waded through pinecones\nand primrose marshes\, a short train ride away. \n7) My country was struck by history more deadly than\nearthquakes or hurricanes. \n8) My father was busy eluding the monsters. My mother\ntold me the walls had ears. I learned the burden of secrets. \n9) I moved into the too bright days\, the too dark nights\nof adolescence. \n10) Two parents\, two daughters\, we followed the sun\nand the moon across the ocean. My grandparents stayed\nbehind in darkness. \n11) In the new language everyone spoke too fast. Eventually\nI caught up with them. \n12) When I met you\, the new language became the language\nof love. \n13) The death of the mother hurt the daughter into poetry.\nThe daughter became a mother of daughters. \n14) Ordinary life: the plenty and thick of it. Knots tying\nthreads to everywhere. The past pushed away\, the future left\nunimagined for the sake of the glorious\, difficult\, passionate\npresent. \n15) Years and years of this. \n16) The children no longer children. An old man’s pain\, an\nold man’s loneliness. \n17) And then my father too disappeared. \n18) I tried to go home again. I stood at the door to my\nchildhood\, but it was closed to the public. \n19) One day\, on a crowded elevator\, everyone’s face was younger\nthan mine. \n20) So far\, so good. The brilliant days and nights are\nbreathless in their hurry. We follow\, you and I. \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-35/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:  \nAbout Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting here. (Event has passed.) \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-9/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:David Parks is not teaching today. Come join us next on November 14th! \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-6/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Peach Blossoms
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nLingyun was wandering in the mountains and became lost in his walking.\nHe rounded a bend and saw peach blossoms on the other side of the valley.\nThe sight awakened him and he wrote:\n \nFor thirty years I sought a sword master.\nHow many times have leaves fallen\nand new buds appeared?\nBut from the moment I saw the peach blossoms\,\nI’ve had no doubts.\n \nSome centuries later\, across the water in Japan\, Keizan wrote: \nThe village peach blossoms didn’t know\ntheir own pink\nbut still they freed Lingyun\nfrom all his doubts. \n—PZI Miscellaneous Koans Case 37 \nWhat first jumped out at me from this koan is\,“…From the moment I saw the peach blossoms\, I’ve had no doubts.” \nI thought\, “But what about great doubt?” It is said to be essential for the practice. The formula is: Great doubt leads to great faith\, which leads to great effort. \nThen there were Keizan’s comments centuries later\, which seem to be equally about the peach blossoms as they are about Lingyun. A question arose in my mind regarding the phrase\, “freed Lingyun from all his doubts.” I thought\, “And that is a good thing?” No doubt would lead to no great faith which would lead to no great effort\, wouldn’t it? Was Keizan maybe pointing that out? \nI then bumped into a couple of comments that also caught my attention. The first was from Xuansha Shibei who said\, “Lingyun may well have been right\, but I’ll guarantee that his understanding was incomplete.” The other was from Dachuan who said\, “A thief has no peace of mind.” \nWhat arose in me upon these readings was\, “It has no power for the Way.” So I’m going to sit with all of this and with my doubtful character and make a report about it this 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-19-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Sesshin Field Notes: In Praise of the Dark
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSesshin Field Notes: In Praise of the Dark \nYunyan asked Daowu\, “How does the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion use all her hands and eyes?”  \nWu said\, “It’s like reaching behind you for a pillow in the night.”  \nYan said\, “I understand.”   \nWu said\, “How do you understand?”  \nYan replied\, “All over the body are hands and eyes.”  \nWu said\, “You have said quite a bit there\, but you’ve only said eighty percent of it.”  \nYan said\, “What do you say\, Elder Brother?”  \nWu replied\, “Throughout the body are hands and eyes.” \n—The Blue Cliff Record Case 89 \nWhat is the heart-mind of the bodhisattva upon entering Zen sesshin—cloistered silence\, many hours of meditation\, walks through the wooded hills? I pay close attention to my dreams in the weeks before sesshin to perhaps understand what my psyche is trying to reflect back to me. Several days before our recent fall retreat\, I had the following dream: \nI am sitting in a comfortable public space where people are moving about. The sun is shining in a garden outside and people are enjoying the warm weather. I find myself chatting with a teacher whom I had known at Zen Center of Los Angeles forty years ago. He says to me\, “I shouldn’t have chosen that guy as my assistant; he wasn’t any good.” The implication was that he should have picked me instead. Mildly flattered\, I am also incredulous: I have not spoken with this teacher in thirty years\, yet I have a single important connection: the teacher in the dream was the first to give me the koan Mu. \nMore than ten years ago when I became a teacher in the Pacific Zen tradition\, I had a dream about Taizan Maezumi Roshi\, who had been this man’s teacher. Still in the dream with the younger man\, I tell him of my dream about Maezumi: \nIn the early one morning dark\, Maezumi comes down the stairs to do kentan\, a review of the zendo\, which is full of monks in black robes seated on cushions\, atop a raised platform. Only a single seat is open\, to my right. Maezumi sits next to me\, which I take to mean he approves of my teaching. \nThis telling ended my dream within a dream. \nWhat did my present dream mean to me? At first I thought it might have to do with the linkage of succession from the young teacher back to his teacher and further back to his. But that explanation did not seem to hold power. \nA few days later I spoke with a friend about the dream\, and she said it perhaps meant I had lost confidence in my own understanding and teaching. Seeking two approvals\, I was seeking validation outside myself when I should be seeking it inside. Though a touch painful to hear\, that interpretation rang of truth and had a warmth to it. \nIn meeting students in dokusan on the first couple of days of sesshin\, I heard them express similar doubts and fears. As bodhisattvas coming into retreat\, they too were struggling with the materia negra\, the dark matter of the soul. \nThough we do not realize it at first\, passing through the dark night of the soul is the place of true freedom. From Melville’s Moby-Dick: \nWe asked the captain what course of action he proposed to take toward a beast so large\, terrifying\, and unpredictable. He hesitated to answer\, and then said\, judiciously\, “I think I shall praise it.” \n—Jon Joseph \nWriter’s Note: As I send this out\, we are entering the final days of our annual fall sesshin\, “The Manifestations of the 1000-Armed Goddess of Mercy\,” held at the Santa Sabina Convent in San Rafael\, California. We have been holding two or three retreats here every year for a decade\, but ownership of this beautiful century-old Benedictine sanctuary will soon change and we will move our retreats elsewhere. We wish to thank the many generations of women who have lived here\, dedicating their lives to God and their community. We will miss them. \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-37-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T120000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:John Tarrant is in Fall Sesshin this week. \nCome join us next on November 3rd. \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-11/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid is in sesshin today\, returning to Tuesday Zen on October 29th. \nHope to see you then! \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-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241021T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241021T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:NO MONDAY ZEN TODAY \nJon is preparing for sesshin today\, returning to Monday Zen on October 28th. \nHope to see you then! \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-12/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241020T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241020T120000
DTSTAMP:20260505T031145
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Refuge\, Befriending the Animals
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nI keep coming back to the Ceremony of Refuge because to take refuge means to accept\, to embrace\, our participation in the world and the world’s way of entering us. \nTo let the world come to us is to welcome it. Refuge is a meeting between our own desires and hopes and the creatures of the world who notice us\, who also have hopes for their encounter with us. Zen is in the space between\, the meeting with each other. \nJoin us this Sunday. \n—John Tarrant \n\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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is FREE or you may elect to donate $10.\n\nDana and donations are gratefully accepted.\nOnce you register\, you’ll receive a PZI link for access to:\nSunday Zen at 10:30 am Pacific Time
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-34-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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