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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is ON BREAK today\, and will return on March 22nd. We hope you join us then!\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-tess-beasley-friends-7/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 15 de marzo\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-24/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Deshan Carries His Bowls
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne day\, Deshan descended to the dining hall\, bowls in hand. Xuefeng asked him\, “Where are you going with your bowls in hand\, Old Teacher? The bell has not rung\, and the drum has not sounded.” Deshan turned and went back to his room. \nXuefeng brought up this matter with Yantou. Yantou said\, “Deshan\, great as he is\, does not yet know the last word.” \nHearing about this\, Deshan sent for Yantou and asked\, “Don’t you approve of this old monk?”\nYantou whispered his meaning. Deshan said nothing further. \nNext day\, when Deshan took the high seat before his gathering\, his presentation was very different from usual. Yantou came to the front of the hall\, rubbing his hands and laughing loudly\, saying\, “How delightful! Our Old Boss has got hold of the last word. From now on\, no one under heaven can outdo him!” \nThis koan also appears in the Gateless Barrier as case thirteen. It’s interesting when the same koan appears in two different collections. The koans in the Book of Equanimity were originally collected by Hongzhi one hundred years before Wumen used it in the Gateless Barrier collection. These collections are like playlists\, the favorite “tunes” of the person who was making the collection. This “tune” would seem to have been popular for over 100 years. It makes you wonder what it was that made it so popular. \nOne of the points that stands out for me is that it is one of the few examples of a teacher learning something. I am assuming that Deshan’s talk the next day was different in a good way because he had learned something. Teaching is learning\, it is a practice. In one version of this koan\, when Deshan called Yantou in\, he asks Yantou\, “Do you have a problem with this old student.” I like that. Someone once said that the only difference between a student and a teacher is that a teacher knows there is no difference. \nDo you think there’s a difference? \nThe story involves a cook\, his best friend and their meditation teacher. The cook’s name was Xuefeng. He’d been practicing meditation for a long time; now with his third teacher\, whose name was Deshan. Xuefeng had problems with his previous two teachers. At the place he was practicing before Deshan’s place\, the teacher there suggested he leave and go to Deshan’s place\, after Xuefeng had dumped all of the rice for the meal for all of the people onto the ground in response to the teacher’s question about whether he separated the rice from the dirt or the dirt from the rice. \nXuefeng’s best friend at Deshan’s place was named Yantou and though younger than Xuefeng he had a deeper understanding of Zen\, which is to say\, a deeper understanding of meditation. That’s what the word “Zen” literally means\, “meditation.” Working again as a cook\, as he had with his two previous teachers\, felt good to him. He liked cooking\, it gave him something to hold onto and focus on; gathering vegetables\, boiling water\, cutting carrots. He had somewhat of a rigid character structure and feeling the need to have something to hold onto was part of that for him. \nOne day as Xuefeng was preparing the meal\, very busy and absorbed in what he was doing\, he noticed that his teacher\, Deshan\, was coming down from his room carrying his eating bowls\, as if he expected to have a meal. But the meal was not ready. Xuefeng had not rung the bell that signaled the meal being ready\, what was his teacher doing coming down now? \nBeing of a rigid character structure\, Xuefeng responded to his teacher in a rigid way and called out somewhat disrespectfully\, “Where are you going? I haven’t rung the bell to signal that the meal is ready!” Deshan stopped walking\, turned around\, and returned to his room without saying a word. Shortly after that Yantou came into the cooking area to check on his friend and see how things were going. Xuefeng told him\, with some relish\, about what had just happened with Deshan. Yantou shook his head and replied\, “As good as he is as a Zen teacher\, Deshan doesn’t yet know the last word of Zen.” \nOf the 10 basic precepts of Buddhism\, gossiping is said to incur the most negative consequences\, the most negative karma. That is surprising\, especially given what the other precepts are: killing\, stealing\, lying\, etc. The explanation is that though each instance of gossiping incurs only a slight negative consequence\, we do it so much that the negative consequence from gossiping adds up to the point that it outweighs the negative consequences of all the other precepts combined. \nThat said\, what Yantou said to Xuefeng about Deshan not knowing the last word of Zen got around the place pretty quickly and before the day was out Deshan had summoned Yantou to his quarters. When Yantou arrived Deshan asked him if he had a problem with the way he was teaching. Yantou responded by whispering something into Deshan’s ear and Deshan nodded his head and dismissed Yantou. We might wonder what it was he whispered to have brought about such a result. \nLater that night\, after Deshan had finished with his regular evening talk\, which we are told was very different from his usual talk\, Yantou jumped up and yelled\, “Wonderful! Wonderful! Deshan has finally gotten the last word of Zen!” And that is the end of the story/dream. Your dream. What do you make of it? Which character calls out to you the most? What is it that puzzles you the most? What is it that reminds you of you the most? \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-82/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Just This. This.
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nAs Dongshan was about to go\, he asked\, “After your death\, if people ask whether I have your portrait (grasped your teaching)\, how should I respond?” \nAfter a long pause\, Yunyan answered\, “Just this. This.”  \n—Book of Serenity\, Case 49 \nTurning sharply left into a grove of eucalyptus we entered the one-lane road that leads down to the Zen farm. My daughter\, who has a few weeks off as she decides what graduate program to attend in the fall\, is on a two-week meditation retreat. She met us in the parking lot\, and soon we were hiking down a gravel path to the beach. At the beach she went for a quick dip in the frigid Pacific\, dried off and\, after hanging out a bit\, we walked back to get her to the evening meal on time. \nPart way up the trail\, our dog\, who was on leash\, jumped the resident bobcat which ran into a small side temple. To the left of us was Redwood Creek\, thick in willows and gushing with new rains. On the right were the winter gardens of the farm\, planted with fava bean cover crop\, and beyond them chaparral blanketed the slopes of the creek’s gulch. \nThe retreat includes a study period\, and my daughter had picked from the library A Flower Falls\, a translation of Haku’un Yasutani’s commentary on Dogen’s richly poetic Genjo Koan. I have been working with the Five Ranks commentary by Yasutani\, our ancestral teacher\, over the past year and have become pretty familiar with his world view. \nMy daughter said she was surprised at how critical Yasutani was of his own Soto School of Zen and his strong advocacy of an embodied kensho experience. Thinking the need to explain Yasutani\, I started to tell her about the differences between the Rinzai koan and the Soto shikantaza schools. But almost immediately my words sounded small and flat to my ears. So I stopped explaining and just said\, “They’re all nice people.” \nWe continued walking without speaking for a time. I gave her a hug as we moved up the trail toward the zendo and dining hall. Soon enough\, the magic of the farm returned; the ambient light of the hall mixed with the smell of vegetables cooking in shoyu. \nNot long after Dongshan left his teacher\, he saw his own image reflected in the water while crossing a creek and wrote: \nLooking through others’ eyes is not necessary; we only create distance.\nI now go my own way entirely alone\, yet I meet it everywhere.\nNow it is just who I am\, at the same time I am not what it is.\nWhen we come to understand\, for the first time we know this true suchness. \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-friends-15/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Relying on The Mysterious
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Ta-lung\, “What is the mysterious?”  The master replied:\n“The breeze brings the water’s voice\nClose to my pillow;\nThe moon carries the mountain’s shadow\nNear my bed.” \nThe mysterious means that you stand on what has no ground. \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-5-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 8 de marzo\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-25/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260307T100000
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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\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for March 7th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-37/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-66/
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:20260303T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Yunyan's Great Compassion
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunyan asked Daowu\, “How does the Bodhisattva Guanyin use all those hands and eyes?\nDaowu answered\, “It is like someone in the middle of the night reaching behind their head for the pillow.”\nYunyan said\, “I understand.”\n“How do you understand it?” asked Daowu\n“All over the body are hands and eyes.” said Yunyan\nDaowu said “That is very well-expressed\, but it is only eight-tenths of the answer.”\nYunyan asked “How would you say it\, Elder Brother?”\nDaowu said “All throughout the body are hands and eyes.” \nThis koan appears in both the Blue Cliff Record and the Book of Equanimity. In the Blue Cliff Record it is entitled\, “Yunyan’s Hands and Eyes.” In the Book of Equanimity it is called\, “Yunyan’s Great Compassion.” \nIt’s interesting that Yunyan gets top billing over Daowu as it would seem that Daowu got the upper hand on Yunyan in appreciating the difference between all over the body and all throughout the body. Isn’t one deeper than the other? All over the body is on the surface\, not on the inside. You might think that the koan should be called “Daowu’s Great Compassion” or “Daowu’s Hands and Eyes.” After all\, Daowu is Yunyan’s elder brother so…doesn’t that mean he knows more? \nJust to make things a bit more interesting\, the story also appears in the Record of Yunyan. Though there is no title\, it is interesting to notice that the positions are  reversed and that it is Daowu who asks Yunyan the first question about hands and eyes. \nDaowu asked\, “‘The Bodhisattva of Compassion has thousands of eyes—which is the most important one?” Yunyan said\, “It’s like when a person reaches out for their pillow in the middle of the night.”                            Daowu said\, “I understand.”                                                                                    \nYunyan asked\, “What do you understand?”                                                               \nDaowu said\, “There are eyes all over one’s body.”                                                    \nYunyan replied\, “You said that so directly\, but you are only 80% correct.”              \nDaowu asked\, “How do you understand this?”                                                          \nYunyan said\, “There are eyes all over one’s body.” \nYamada’s translation in both the Blue Cliff Record and the Book of Equanimity has Yunyan saying\, “The whole body is hands and eyes.” Then Daowu saying\, “All throughout the body are hands and eyes.” Aren’t they saying the same thing as in the version of the Record of Yunyan? \nThen the donkey and the well came along and asked\, “Isn’t the difference between eyes all over the body and eyes all through the body the same as the donkey sees the well and the well sees the donkey?” \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-83/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260302T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Taking Refuge in Awakening\, the Way and Our Companions
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nI take refuge in awakening\nI take refuge in the way\nI take refuge in my companions \nThese are the Three Refuge Vows\, the first of sixteen that an aspirant takes in receiving the precepts before an assembly of their Sangha. It is a celebration we call Refuge\, and is essentially a lay ordination: the one taking Refuge receives a dharma name and the small robe called a rakusu. The ceremony is usually joined at sesshin\, but in unusual circumstances\, held remotely. \nThe Refuge ceremony begins with an invocation: \nWhen knowing stops\, when thoughts about who we are fall away\, vast space opens up and love appears. Anything that gets in the way of understanding this is a cause of suffering and something to refrain from. \nMoment by moment\, thought appears\, the earth appears\, we appear. When we test each bit of life against the heart\, we find we cannot reject anything\, for we are the only hands and eyes that eternity has. With our virtues\, our failures\, and our imperfections\, this is the body we take refuge in; this is what we offer to the world. \nThe aspirant works for a year\, or more\, with their teacher reviewing each of the sixteen vows\, which include the Three Pure Vows (I vow to do no harm/to do good/to do good for others) and the Ten Bodhisattva vows (I vow not to kill/to steal/to misuse sex/to lie/to misuse drugs/to gossip maliciously/to praise myself at the expense of others/to be stingy/to indulge in anger/or to disparage awakening\, the way and my companions.) \nEach of these are treated as a koan: what is their inconceivable nature and how do we realize that truth in our lives? The only way we can investigate these koans is to “test each bit of our lives against our own heart.” \nThe invocation goes on: By their nature\, vows are not things we hold perfectly. Vows are the bridge we build between the spacious world and the things we do every day. They encourage us to follow our questions when they arise. Underlying our vows is compassion for everything that has the courage to live. \n—Jon Joseph \nJoin Jon Joseph and Friends as we hold a refuge ceremony on Monday night! \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-friends-13/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: It's Not So Hard
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nOn a dusky evening late in Winter\, early in Spring\, a woman found herself entering a temple. Just why is hard to know. \nBut a seat had waited for her\, and as she tucked in her legs and heard the chorus of soft breathing\, her own breath seemed to join in\, and this intrigued her. \nThen teacher began to speak: \nThere’s a Buddha of infinite light in your own body\, he said. \nOnce that Buddha appears\, mountains\, rivers\, trees\, and the whole earth suddenly shine with a great light. To see this\, you have to look inside your own heart. \nThis\, too\, was intriguing. That doesn’t sound so hard\, thought the woman. \nJoin us Sunday for a tale of awakening to the ordinary brilliance of each and everything. It’s nice to remember it’s not so hard. \n—Tess Beasley \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 1 de marzo\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-26/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Huangbo’s Brewers Dregs
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nHuangbo said\, “You’re all gobblers of brewers dregs. \nIf you run around like this\, where will you meet today? \nHaven’t you figured out that in the whole country there is not a single Chan teacher?”\nSomeone stepped forward and asked\, “But what about all those places where people are guiding students and leading gatherings?”\nHuangbo said\, “I didn’t say no Chan\, only no Chan teachers.”  \nHuangbo originated this expression\, “Gobblers of brewer’s dregs” which became a popular saying used to refer to people whose meditation practice involved imitating what they read in texts and what they heard from teachers\, but never making it their own\, never integrating it into their lives. The literal meaning is that you eat leftovers from making rice wine and then think that you have had a taste of the real thing. \nHuangbo’s warning about running around like this\, going on pilgrimage\, seeking wisdom\, was something that he had learned from his own experience. Like most young monks\, following his ordination Huangbo went looking for a teacher. Finding the right teacher didn’t come easy\, but he learned as he went. Eventually he met a laywoman who suggested the person he was looking for was Mazu. Mazu was living a thousand kilometers to the southeast. By the time Huangbo got there\, Mazu had died. Although Mazu was gone\, his dharma heir Baizhang was a mere two days’ walk away. In their first meeting: \nBaizhang said to Huangbo\, “Magnificent\, imposing\, where have you come from?”\nHuangbo replied\, “Magnificent\, imposing\, from the mountains.”\nBaizhang asked\, “Magnificent\, imposing\, why have you come?”\nHuangbo replied\, “Magnificent\, imposing\, not for anything else.” \nIt is said that Huangbo was 7 feet tall\, but I don’t think that’s what Baizhang was referring to when he said\, “Magnificent\, imposing.” When Huangbo replied\, “Magnificent\, imposing” I think he was talking about everything. Everything is magnificent and imposing if we get out of the way of our thinking. Especially the thinking that says that we lack something and we need to get it from someplace outside of ourselves. Huangbo wasn’t looking for anything at that moment\, not wisdom\, not a teacher\, “not for anything else” other than that moment. \nDeshan was an expert on texts\, which he pulled behind him in a cart. Upon his realization he said it wasn’t about texts\, “I will never doubt any more what the old master has said to me.” He was not talking about Lungtan\, the old teacher who blew out his candle\, allowing him to see the light in the dark. He was talking about the “old master” who is reading these words right now. \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-68/
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:20260223T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T193000
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SUMMARY:PACIFIC ZEN LUMINARIES: Japanese Butoh & the Heart of Zen – Jon Joseph & Friends in Conversation with Denise Fujiwara
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDenise Fujiwara is one of Canada’s leading contemporary dance artists. \nShe has won numerous awards for her highly creative choreography and dance\, most recently in 2025 the Canada Council’s Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts and Lifetime Achievement\, recognizing “the highest artistic merit and career achievement by a professional artist in music\, theatre\, or dance.” \nDenise’s nearly half-century in performance dance began in the 1970s as Canadian champion on the Rhythmic Gymnastics National Team. She went on to co-found the Toronto Independent Dance Enterprise (TIDE)\, where she performed for over a decade. In 1991 she founded Fujiwara Dance Inventions to support her solo performances that toured throughout Canada\, the US\, Europe\, South America\, and Asia. And in 1997 helped found CanAsian Dance\, where she remained involved for twenty-five years. \nSome of her many original performances have been influenced by the avant-garde Japanese dance called Butoh\, which she began studying under Tokyo master artist Natsu Nakajima in the early 1990s. \n“Butoh\,” she writes\, “challenged the very foundations of my understanding of what dance is.” \nHer singular performance known as Eunoia\, a multimedia adaptation of Christian Bök’s award winning book of poetry\, sold out its Toronto debut\, was nominated for several awards\, and continues to tour ten years later. \nDenise has been an active member of the Pacific Zen Institute for nearly fifteen years. On retreat with PZI\, she often leads participants in an exploration of the embodiment of Zen through her lens of contemporary dance. \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.
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/luminaries-denise-fujiwara-26/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Monday Zen is ON BREAK for Pacific Zen Luminaries. Join us next week!\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-friends/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260222T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260222T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T093138
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 22 de febrero\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-17/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T120000
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SUMMARY:Special Event – Deep Sit Sunday Zen: Like a Buffalo Through a Window
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThis Sunday we’ll extend the temple hours for another deep sit\, silence to sink into your bones. \nAs the mind settles and we pass through the usual chatter and obsessions\, more space appears and like stars in the relief of dusk\, more interesting questions come into view. \nWondering itself\, and the mystery of our own consciousness\, becomes less a problem to corral than simply a pleasure to investigate and companion. \nClarity appears and vanishes again\, and slowly\, slowly\, we notice we’re alive and beyond resolution. \nOne teacher put it like this: \nWuzi said\, “It’s like a buffalo passing through a latticed window. Its head\, horns\, and legs all pass through\, but why can’t its tail?” \nThe tail can be all that remains unanswered in our hearts; the annoying or destructive habits of mind and body we just can’t seem to break. It can be all we wish we’d somehow done differently; but to hold it as a given\, and come to know its blessing\, is the generosity of practice. \nOf this case in the Gateless Gate Collection\, Wumen penned the verse: \nIf it passes through\, it falls into a ditch;\nif it turns back\, it will be lost.\nThis tiny little tail —\nwhat a strange and wonderful thing it is!  \nJoin us for a morning out on the Great Plains. \n—Tess Beasley\, Roshi \n\nSchedule (ALL TIMES PACIFIC): \n9AM – 11AM – Meditation & Music with Open Temple Leaders \n11AM – 12PM – Meditation\, Poetry & Reflections with John Tarrant\, Tess Beasley & Friends \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/deep-sit-sunday-zen-feb-22-26/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="John Tarrant & Tess Beasley":MAILTO:johntarrant@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T100000
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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\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for February 21st here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-36/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-61/
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:20260217T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260217T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Caoshan’s Well Sees a Donkey
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nCaoshan asked a student\, “Awakening is like the empty sky.\nIt responds to things the way the moon appears in water.\nHow do you explain this responsiveness?”\nThe student said\, “It’s like a donkey seeing a well.”\nCaoshan said\, “That’s most of it\, but not the whole thing.”                                                   \n“What’s it like for you?” asked the student\,                                                                          \n“It’s like a well seeing a donkey.” said Caoshan. \nThis koan about a donkey and a well brought the peach blossom koan to mind in which reality is met just as it is without any overlay in the experience of seeing peach blossoms. Nothing but peach blossoms. That sounds like a donkey seeing a well. There’s a me seeing the well\, but without overlay\, the way the empty sky receives whatever passes through it. The student’s response is good\, as far as it goes. \nBut the student’s response leaves out the other side of the coin. To say awakening is like a donkey seeing a well speaks to the way something is still being held onto… the donkey. Caoshan’s response of “A well sees a donkey” takes away what’s being held onto. When you experience\, “a donkey sees a well” there is nothing to know. When you experience\, “a well sees a donkey” there is no one who knows. No subject\, no object\, your body and mind are “like the vast sky”. The donkey is the donkey and the well is the well and simultaneously the donkey is the well and the well is the donkey and all the barriers come down. It reminds me of the seamlessness that we talked about in the last retreat. Life is not something to be observed from a corner. To be fully alive is to see by being seen and to be seen by seeing. \nThe fact is that even adding Caoshan’s other side of the coin ‘is not the whole thing’. We can never explain it\, like the taste of tea\, it is something we must experience for ourselves. \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-74/
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:20260216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260216T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: The Dance of the Dao
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen the wooden man begins to sing\,\nthe stone woman gets up to dance. \n—Dongshan Liangjie’s Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi \nWhat is dance if not the most fundamental celebration of life? \nTraditionally\, the stone woman represents the unborn—emptiness. She arises from the field of no-thing\, bringing life into the world. The stone woman’s dance is the dance of life\, the dance of the universe. She shows us how to dance. \n橆 \nTranslator and poet David Hinton believes Chinese ideograms paint a paleolithic\, shamanistic\, deep relationship of human beings to nature. Central to the Chinese understanding of the world is the Dao\, or Way\, which holds both Presence (form) and Absence (emptiness). Absence (wu\, mu\, no) is “undifferentiated generative source-tissue” with the ancient pictographic origins of “a woman dancing\, her swirling movements enhanced by fox tails streaming out from her hands.” \nLast holiday season I gifted my partner a package of dance lessons for the both of us. A couple months ago we went to a bar out near the coast to listen to a banging country and western band. Getting out on the dance floor\, we were a touch rusty\, but who cares if you’ve got plenty of ginger and spunk? \nIn our dance lessons\, as soon as our teacher\, a high school junior with a full set of braces\, showed us how to get on up and do the Texas Two-Step. I could feel myself stiffen like the wooden man\, self-consciously trying to get the steps just right and on time. \nStarting with my left foot\, the rhythm went “quick-quick-slow-slow.” I felt terrible my partner had not worn her steel-toed boots. Next came the “quick-quick-slow-tap-slow\,” and “quick-quick-slow-tap-slow” foot moves good for any honky-tonk in the country\, they say. Eventually I relaxed a bit. Our instructor was effusive in her praise of our rapid progress. In a couple weeks we return for a second lesson. \nDogen knew something of dancing. In his New Year’s Dharma Hall Discourse\, he writes\, \nThe sky is clear\, and moisture covers the earth. It is said\, Buddhas as numerous as the sands of the Ganges dance to exalted music\, and throughout the entire world the blossoms on the branches facing south immediately open. \nI like that. Buddhas as numerous as the sands of the Ganges dancing to honky tonk. Perhaps we are all working on our quick-quick-slow-slow step. \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-friends-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260215T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260215T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T093138
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Sitting Alone In My Old Clothes
DESCRIPTION:In the empty room\, the spring wind—\nsitting alone in my old clothes\,\nblossoms whirl around me. \nOur lives are transitory and everything we meet is\, well\, vast as well as transitory. \nWe notice the haze of spring blossoms\, the moon\, and the infinity of the night stars. \nThe Zen word for all this is ‘Emptiness’ which covers the dreamlike quality of our days\, the way they seem to be transparent\, and beautiful. Suffering\, yearning and delight are all in one spring rainstorm. \nJoin us this Sunday for an exploration of freedom inside of the whirl of the world. \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-7-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260215T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T093138
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 15 de febrero\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-16/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T093138
CREATED:20251222T180149Z
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Fayan’s Boat or Land
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFayan asked the senior student Jiao\, “Did you come by boat or land?”\nJiao said\, “I came by boat.”\n“Where is the boat?”\n“It’s on the river.”\nAfter Jiao had left\, Fayan asked a student who was standing nearby\,\n“Tell me\, that student who was just here\, could he see into reality or not?” \n—Book of Serenity Case 51 \nThere are many cases in which teachers ask\, “Where have you come from?” Fayan’s question in this koan feels like that. Confronted with a question like that\, another question comes to mind\, “Is this a regular question or a Zen question?” Either way\, knowing the difference or not knowing the difference\, tells the teacher something. \nDongshan did not know the difference when he encountered Yunmen: \nYunmen asked him\, “Where were you most recently?”\nDongshan said\, “At Chadu.”\nYunmen said\, “Where were you during the summer?”\nDongshan said\, “At Baozi Monastery in Hunan.”\nYunmen said\, “When did you leave there?”\nDongshan said\, “August 25th.”\nYunmen said\, “I spare you sixty blows.” \nIn our koan we and the student are asked by Fayan whether we think Jiao knows the difference or not. In Hongzhi’s verse on the koan the first two lines are\, \nWater cannot wash water\, gold cannot be turned into gold. \nDid Hongzhi think Jiao knew the difference? \nDo you? \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-73/
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 & Friends: Practice Makes Us Fetchable
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nBy what path did we come to be where we are now? What were the inconceivable karmic twists that brought us to this moment? It is hard\, perhaps impossible\, to know. As the Tang era poet Han Shan\, who often wrote on rocks and trees\, “It has been ten years since I came to Cold Mountain\, and I have forgotten the path by which I came.” \nThough we can’t know the path\, we can be open to path finding. “Practice is about making us fetchable\,” writes Joan Sutherland in Through Forests of Every Color\, ”It helps us to recognize what gets in the way of our being fetched.” \nBy the time I graduated from college I had been sitting for five or six years and wanted to travel to Japan to study Japanese and Zen for a year. I had no contacts there and found it hard to gather information from afar. But I was fetchable\, and Sutherland’s koan dragon murmured and took note. \nThat summer I worked on a salmon fishing boat\, then in a cold storage cleaning salmon\, and finally as a carpenter in Petersburg\, Alaska\, renovating the local doctor’s house. My brother\, a contractor\, was building a house for my parents in Nevada City\, in the Sierra foothills\, so I went down to help him. The second night we went to a bar and by chance met his yoga teacher. I still remember her name: Arlene Cohen. Arlene had studied Zen in Hawai’I with Robert Aitken\, and we decided to meet the following Saturday to sit Zen together. In the interim\, she had gotten a phone call that Aitken was in the area at Gary Snyder’s\, leading a sesshin\, and Arlene was invited on Saturday to listen to a teishō. \nI went along. After the teishō\, Aitken came up to me and noted that it looked like I had practiced before. I said I had\, and asked if I could finish the last three days of the sesshin at Snyder’s Kitkitdizze. He assented\, and we got to know each other a bit. I told him I was going to Japan for a year\, he suggested I visit Koun Yamada\, in Kamakura\, and wrote me a letter of introduction. \nA couple of months later\, on the way to Japan\, I stopped in Maui to stay for a few days at Aitken’s zendo there\, where a practice period was going on. The head of practice was a heavily bearded Australian named John Tarrant. I continued on to Japan\, and on the second night went to sit at the SanUn Zendo in Kamakura\, where Yamada Roshi lived. I stayed for eight years. \nCountless chances brought me to Kamakura. Had my brother not been building a house for my parents in Nevada City\, had I not gone to a bar the second night and met Arlene\, had Aitken’s people not contacted her\, had I not gone to the teishō\, had they not let me stay at Snyder’s\, had Aitken not offered to write a letter\, my life would have been vastly different.  None of this could have been planned. It was inconceivable\, crazy almost. But when I made myself fetchable\, I was fetched. \nIn the koan we are sitting with this week in Open Temple\, Fayan asks a senior student who just arrived\, “Did you come by boat or land?” The student answered\, “I came by boat.” Fayan then asked\, “Where is the boat?” The student said\, “It’s on the river.” \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-friends-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260208T103000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: Knowing How to Beat the Drum
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSo often the contents of the mind become worn out\, but what to do with ourselves if we’re not chasing them around anymore or asking what they mean? \nAn old Chinese teacher\, Hoshan\, spoke about it like this: \n“Studying—we call that ‘hearing’; completing study is called ‘getting nearer’. Going beyond both of these is what we mean by ‘truly going beyond’.” \nA student stepped out of the assembly and asked\, “What’s truly going beyond?” \nHoshan replied\, “Knowing how to beat the drum.” \nJoin us Sunday for meditation\, music to die for\, and an exploration of just what Hoshan means with all this drum business. \n—Tess Beasley\, Roshi \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-tess-beasley-friends-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260208T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260208T113000
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 8 de febrero\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-15/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T100000
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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\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for February 7th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-35/
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:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-60/
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:20260203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Xuefeng’s What Is This? —Equanimity 50
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen Xuefeng was living in a hermitage\, two monks came to pay their respects. When he saw them coming\, Xuefeng thrust open the gate of his hermitage and jumped out\, saying\, “What is this?”\nOne of the monks also said\, “What is this?”\nXuefeng hung his head and went back inside.  \nThe monks went on to Yantou. Yantou asked\, “Where have you come from?”\n“From Lingnan\,” one monk replied.\n“Did you visit Xuefeng?” Yantou asked.\n“Yes\, we went there.” \n“What did he tell you?”\nThe monk related what happened. Yantou asked\, “What did he say after ‘What is this’?”\n“He hung his head without a word and went back inside.”\nYantou said\, “What a pity!  In those days I did not tell him the last words. If I had told him\, nobody in the world could deal with him.” \nThis monk spent the summer season with Yantou\, and at the end\, he asked what Yantou meant by his observation about Xuefeng.\nYantou asked\, “Why didn’t you ask me sooner?”\n“It is not so easy to ask you about this.”\n“Xuefeng and I were born on the same branch\, but we do not die on it.\nIf you want to know the last words\, it is ‘only just this’.” \nThis feels like a continuation of the previous koan about Dongshan and the teaching he received from his teacher Yunyan\, “Just this\, this.” Xuefeng was born twenty years after Dongshan and forty years after Yunyan\, so it’s easy to assume that the teaching of ‘just this\, this’ was circulating around in the Chan world of the time. To experience ‘just this\, this’\, you must know what ’this’ is. Xuefeng is encouraging the monks\, himself and you and I to carry the inquiry further into ‘just this\, this’ by engaging the question ‘What is this?’ \nAt the end of Yunmen’s koan about sickness and medicine he asks the question\, “What are you?” It’s jarring to think of myself as a ‘what’\, somehow more so than asking ‘Who am I’. In a similar way\, asking “What is this?” feels like it is asking more of me than “Just this\, this” \n“What is this?” reading these words. Why is it so hard to ask? \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-72/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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