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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Three Pure Vows
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nLast week\, in spending time with the Three Refuge Vows\, we talked about the act and experience of taking refuge in awakening\, the Way\, and our companions. Now we are looking into the second set of three vows\, the Three Pure Vows. \nI vow to do no harm.\nI vow to do good.\nI vow to do good for others. \nIn spending time with these vows as koans\, it naturally brings up questions like\, what does “pure” mean?  What is harm\, good\, and good for others? Where is the cave of the Buddhas\, and how do we find the source of their teachings? The path of perfect enlightenment\, it is said we all walk\, is that my path? Ordinary and awakened; free ourselves and others. Much to talk about. \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-36-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240929T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240929T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Just to Know That There Is a Path
DESCRIPTION:Autumn is really setting in and the delusion and cruelty of public life are setting in\, too. \nSo just to know that there is a path is our job—to hold the way\, to encourage those on the way. Triumph and despair come and go but the Way remains. Without words\, the autumn trees make a golden path\, while the leaves are falling around us. \nIn the midst of upheaval  and difficulties of every kind\, Fayen said \nHe\, he\, he\, I\, I\, I\nSouth north east west everything is all right\nAll right or not all right\nOnly for me\, there is nothing not all right \nWalking the ancient path—that’s what we do\, and hold for each other\, and there is only now … \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-33-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240924T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240924T193000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid Weinstein is on break until October 1st. Please join us then! \nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-18/2024-09-24/
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:20240923T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240923T193000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: A Place Where One Belongs
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nA Place Where One Belongs\nI take refuge in awakening\nI take refuge in the way\nI take refuge in my companions \n —The Three Refuge Vows\, from Pacific Zen’s Ceremony of Taking Refuge in the Bodhisattva Way \nWhat does it mean to take refuge? The dictionary defines it as “a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit\, danger\, or trouble.” It is entering a safe place. \nAt the same time\, while most commonly the Chinese characters (三 帰) are translated as “the three refuges\,” their direct translation means “the three returns: returning home\, going to a place where one belongs\, return from whence one came.” Indeed. \nJoin us. \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-36-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240922T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240922T120000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Autumn Is the Philosophical Season
DESCRIPTION:Season of songs and sorrow and wide sky\, begonia and memory. \nThe grapes are very ripe\, the persimmons are weighing the boughs down to the ground\, the fox trots by with a vole in his mouth—so that’s why the garden is doing well—and I have a sense of wonder. The first of the golden crown sparrows\, thinned down by the flight from Alaska\, arrived at the bird bath\, taking a slow drink. This moment is what life is for\, and again this moment. Time is spacious when we don’t argue with it. \nClimb Mt Fuji\,\nSnail\, but slowly\,\nSlowly. \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-33-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240921T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240921T160000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:DAYLONG Retreat with John Tarrant & Tess Beasley: Avalokitesvara\, Persephone\, and Autumn Harvest: Zen and the Goddess Part I
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nAvalokitesvara\, Persephone\, and Autumn Harvest: Zen and the Goddess Part I\nAh\, after the equinox\, the nights lengthen and we descend into the underworld along with Persephone and Avalokitesvara. There’s treasure\, too: grapes and wheat\, pomegranates and memory\, and a kind of clear light that appears in autumn. \nWe’re learning how to live when everything changes. Meditation is the way. \nThis is part of our autumn series on Zen and the Goddess. \nJoin John Tarrant and Tess Beasley for meditation and exploration of the great matter. \n\nPZI Online Temple\nSaturday\, September 21st\, 2024\n9:30 am–4:00 pm Pacific Time \nStay tuned for the schedule \nSpecial rates made possible by the Lenz Foundation’s 2024 “Women in Buddhism” Grant. \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? Contact Marion Power at myakoushkin@gmail.com
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/daylong-retreat-with-john-tarrant-tess-beasley-zen-and-the-goddess-part-i/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:1-Day Retreat,PZI Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240919T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240919T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:NO THURSDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid Parks Roshi will return on October 3rd. Please join us then! \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-32-3/
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:20240917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240917T193000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid Weinstein is on break until October 1st. Please join us then! \nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-18/2024-09-17/
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:20240916T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240916T193000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Every Year a Tomato Year
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nEvery Year a Tomato Year\nYunmen said\, “I’m not asking you about before the full moon. Come and say a word or two about after the full moon.”\nAnd he himself replied\, “Every day is a good day.” \n   — The Blue Cliff Record Case 6 \nFor me\, every year is a tomato year. For some decades\, I have planted tomato seeds in the late winter\, guarded them from snails as they became small starts\, planted and watered them in the early summer\, and in August and September harvested\, blanched\, roasted\, canned or froze them. And through those late summer months\, I have but one meal in the morning: sliced tomato with a dab of mayonnaise on a piece of toast. Morning after morning. Every year is a good year. And before we use the tags of good and evil\, it is just a year. Somehow\, that itself is a celebration. \nPablo Neruda’s poem Ode to Tomatoes begins: \nThe street\nfilled with tomatoes\nmidday\,\nsummer\,\nlight is\nhalved\nlike a tomato\,\nits juice\nruns\nthrough the streets… \nJoin us Monday. \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-36-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240915T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240915T120000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
CREATED:20240910T212949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T235352Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: The Zen Master and the Ruler of the Land
DESCRIPTION:Our lives are the universe talking to itself—the wind bending the grass\, the goldfinches pouring through the garden like honey\, the feeling that life all makes sense and the feeling that life doesn’t make sense—all of this is ours. In late spring\, birds are singing on their nests at night. Our thoughts and feelings are simple too. There is something beautiful about being alive\, just the simplest part of being alive is everything. \nMeditation is not very complicated. It just means noticing that everything is alright\, even when things are difficult\, there is something alright in us. Our lives have a grace and a kindness in them before we started looking for grace or kindness. We are not living the wrong life. \nHere’s a little story: Zhaozhou and the Ruler of the Land. \nThe Governor asked\, “Master\, do you practice?”\nZhaozhou said\, “It would be a disaster if I did.”\nMa said\, “If you yourself do not practice\, to whom can you teach the practice?”\nZhaozhou said\, “You.”\nMa said\, “How can you call someone like me a practitioner?”\nZhao said\, “If you did not practice\, how could you have overcome hunger and cold\, and attained the status of a Governor?”\nWith tears in his eyes the Governor bowed in gratitude. \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-33-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240910T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240910T193000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid Weinstein is on break until October 1st. Please join us then! \nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-18/2024-09-10/
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:20240909T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240909T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: A Concord of Sweet Sounds
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n“But music for a time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself\, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds\, is fit for treasons\, stratagems\, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night…Let no such man be trusted.” \n—Lorenzo\, in Shakespear’s The Merchant of Venice \nTwo of the most trusted men in our universe—Michael Wilding and Jordan Mcconnell\, will join us on Monday night for a concord of sweet sounds: playing and talking about the source of sound and music. We may investigate strains of South Asian melodies in the sweet notes of the flute. Or we may hear in the strings of the guitar the story of an abandoned and barren island off the coast of Ireland\, music written by the fairies to the thrum of wind in halyards and sheets of old sailing vessels. \nJoin us. \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-36-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240908T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240908T120000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: How Is My Hand Like the Buddha’s Hand?
DESCRIPTION:This dialogue is a call and response: \n“How is my hand like the Buddha’s hand?”\n“Playing guitar in the moonlight.” \nThe question goes in many directions; it asks\, “What shall we do with being human?” \nHands make art and tenderness. Hands do things\, they pick up a child\, haul in a fish\, swing a bucket\, write\, play guitar.\nHands have rings on them. Hands turn us into artists\, people who give shape to matter.\nAnd the music is happening in the moonlight\, there are memories\, and surprises; a dreamlike and eternal quality keeps us company.\nAnd isn’t everything a dream? \nJoin us this Sunday. \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-33-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240905T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240905T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Utterly Useless Stuff!
DESCRIPTION:Utterly Useless Stuff!\nA pebble striking bamboo. A deer calling from a nearby stream. A glimpse of a flower in the corner of your eye. A shout:  Ha! A sound\, a taste\, a touch\, a smell\, something that cuts through the personal identifications and attachments as the heart opens to “just this.” Linji employed the shout\, at times calling out “Thief.” Yunmen often used a one simple word response to students’ questions: sesame rice cake\, barrier\, dried shit stick. \nOver my month long hiatus from teaching\, Yunmen has been coming to me in meditation\, as I worked in the barns and pulled weeds in the garden.  Early in the month it was the longer koans\, but as the month progressed Yunmen’s one word responses came\, one after another. Soon Yunmen began to speak his simple responses as I moved through the my day\, meeting the occasion with a word:  Honeybee\, Orange\, Ironweed\, Goldenrod – each word a gateway\, an opening into being here without regret or complaint. Utterly useless stuff. \nYunmen goes to visit the old teacher Muzhou\, walking up to the door: \nThe moment Muzhou saw Yunmen approach\, he shut the door. Thereupon Yunmen knocked at the door\, and Muzhou asked\, “Who is it?”\nYunmen replied\, “It’s me!”\nMuzhou asked\, “What are you here for?”\nYunmen said\, “I am not yet clear about myself. Please\, Master\, give me guidance!”\nMuzhou opened the door\, cast one glance\, shut it again\, and withdrew.\nIn this manner Yunmen went to knock at the door on three consecutive days. On the third day\, when Muzhou set out to open the door\, Yunmen forced his way in. Muzhou seized him and said\, “Say it\, say it!”\nYunmen hesitated.\nMuzhou pushed him out\, saying\, “Utterly useless stuff.”\nThrough this Yunmen attained awakening. \nWhat is remarkable to me about this story\, is that Muzhou is in accord with the Dao as he meets the moment\, his interlocutor\, so that finally\, the third time is the charm. Yunmen wakes up. The beauty of Zen is that we are guided by thieves — those who would take away our ideas and conceptions about life\, our self-identification\, and throw us into the deep end of life that we might learn to swim. Anything else\, “Utterly useless stuff.” \nAwakening is nothing.  It is not a thing among other things\, things that can be called out and fixed and manipulated like cars or political campaigns.  Yunyan\, Dongshan’s teacher says it like this: as one moves step by step through life – each moment\, each meeting\, “just this is it.” Nothing stands apart from awakening. \nJoin us Thursday. \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-32-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid Weinstein is on break until October 1st. Please join us then! \nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-18/2024-09-03/
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:20240902T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240902T193000
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CREATED:20240829T193517Z
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Sitting on Great Courage Peak
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nSitting On Great Courage Peak\nA student asked Baizhang\, “What is the most wonderful and special thing?”\n“Sitting alone on Great Courage Peak.”\nThe student bowed\, and Baizhang hit him. \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 26 \nI was visiting this koan with a friend the other day\, and what impressed me was this case’s ordinariness: just our sitting alone\, right where we are\, is enough. \n“Great Courage Peak” sounds kind of aspirational\, but it was just the name of the mountain where Baizhang lived. He could have as easily said Geyser Peak\, Lake Tahoe\, or Bolinas. Or he could have responded\, “Sitting alone drinking a latte at Peets Coffee.” Or blanching and packing tomatoes in my kitchen. Reading The Record of Dongshan in the early morning. Don’t say “could be.” It is. \nWhen Dongshan was leaving\, he said to Yunyen\, his teacher\, “If in a hundred years someone were to ask me how to describe you\, how should I respond?” Yunyen answered\, “Say\, ’Just this. This!’” Dongshan fell silent. \nThere is something wonderful and special about just-this-ness. The just-this-ness of Chan-Zen is a fullness\, an enoughness\, a wholeness. That is so great because we are the complete package\, whatever mountain we sit on\, even if we are sitting alone on no-courage mountain. \nMany years ago\, somebody felt they had to name just-this-ness\, so they called it buddha nature. \nJoin us. \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-36-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:OPEN TEMPLE: 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\,\nSeptember 2nd–November 1st\, 2024. 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. (stay tuned!) \nPZI Members FREE\, Non-Members $125 \nQuestions? Or to check your membership status\, contact PZI Support \n\n\nNot a member of PZI? Now is your chance!  \nJoin us for free access to the Open Temple\, scholarships\, discounts for retreats\,\nour vast and growing library of dharma talks\, and other resources.\n \nBecome a Member\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/open-temple-fall-5-week-meditation-pass-members-free/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Open Temple
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240901T103000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Surprise!
DESCRIPTION:At first\, we are reaching for the beautiful and timeless world.\nWe practice and suddenly we find that it just surrounds us and we are not reaching any more. \nThe way of the Emperor Yao came from the Buddha—\nhe bent the Yellow River—\nwhen he passed through the market from end to end\,\nhe found the sacred dynasty flourishing there. \nJoin us 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-33-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240829T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240829T173000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Thursday Zen with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:NO THURSDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid Parks is on break throughout August\, returning to Thursday Zen on September 5th. Come join us then! \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US at 4 pm on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \n\n\nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-thursday-zen-with-david-parks-5/2024-08-29/
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:20240827T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240827T193000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Opening Your Storehouse of Treasures
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nOpening Your Storehouse of Treasures\nThe storehouse of treasures opens of itself.\nYou may take them and use them any way you wish. \n—Dogen \nA number of koans came along to keep me company as I was keeping company with the storehouse of treasures. The first one involves Mazu: \nMazu asked: “What do you seek?”\n“Enlightenment\,” replied the student.\n“You have your own storehouse of treasure. Why do you search outside?” Mazu asked.\nThe student inquired: “Where is my storehouse of treasure?”\nMazu answered: “What you are asking is your storehouse of treasure.” \nI could hear echoes of Dogen’s “opens of itself” in Mazu’s “What you are asking is the storehouse of treasures.” Then a koan involving Yunmen came along to join the conversation: \nA student asked Yunmen\, “This is not the function of mind. This is not the matter before me. What is it?”\nYunmen immediately cried\, “One teaching upside-down!” \nThat upside-downness in Yunmen’s response had a lively conversation with Mazu’s  “What you are asking is your storehouse of treasure” and the “opens of itself” of Dogen. \nAnd then another koan came along to join the party: \nA student asked Bukko\, “What is Zen?”\nBukko replied\, “The heart of the one who asks is Zen.” \nIt felt kind of like Scrabble with koans\, except I was watching it happen\, not doing it\, which is how my encounters with the storehouse of treasures unfold—it opens by itself\, true enough\, but I don’t “take” a treasure nor do I “use” it—it just comes and that’s enough; maybe I could say that I get used by it. \nThe other thing I notice is that I don’t always recognize the treasure that comes until later. That kind of experience pushes up against my ideas of what a treasure looks like\, a treasure in itself. \nDo you know what I mean? \nJoin us 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-17-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240826T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240826T193000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:NO MONDAY ZEN TODAY \nJon Joseph is on break until September 9th. Please join us then! \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-35-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240825T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240825T120000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
CREATED:20240821T222703Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Laying About in the Usual Chaos
DESCRIPTION:Is it laying about or lying about? In summer\, I aspire to less and less. \nCrickets go on all night. \nThe big eye of the harvest tractor goes all night\, up and down. \nAt dawn\, I sit bolt upright saying aloud\, “Who is that?” but it’s just the round moon saying hello. \nDoing nothing is the original Zen gig. \nIt allows us to be original. It allows the world to restore us and offer ideas. \nThoughts come by themselves but indeed we might not need them\, since others will be along soon. \n  \nJoin us for zazen and to consider how best to accord with the flow of the Dao. \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-33-2-2-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240820T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240820T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Delicious Delusion
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nDelicious Delusion\nYour idea of wanting to control your passions and delusions is itself delusion:\nit exchanges the awakened mind for delusion. \n—Bankei \nShortly after last week’s koan about “not an inch of grass for a thousand miles\,” this koan from Bankei came along to keep me company. I appreciated the way Bankei and Dongshan were coming from different directions to the same place regarding our relationship to delusions (or grass). \nWhat the 17th century Japanese Zen teacher Bankei calls delusion is what the 20th century Tibetan teacher Lama Yeshe used to call negative mind. Not negative just because it was an unpleasant experience such as anger or sadness\, rather\, negative because it resulted in negative consequences. \nMy personal favorite of his various ways of addressing delusion—negative mind—was when he would call it “chocolate.” He would often say\, “Negative mind … isn’t it wonderful? Like chocolate.” \nThere is nothing negative about chocolate\, unless you eat too much of it. If it is a difficult kind of negative mind like sadness or anger\, then it’s a “delicious” opportunity to savor the flavor of it—which will lead to savoring that flavor less in the future\, so long as I don’t judge myself for being an idiot for doing that which I might know better than to do. \nHaving had an introduction to meditation that likened delusion to chocolate has left me particularly open to what Bankei is saying. A meditation practice is not about controlling passions and delusions\, it’s about becoming a connoisseur of them. \nJoin us 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-17-4/
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:20240819T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240819T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION:NO MONDAY ZEN TODAY \nJon Joseph is on break until September 9th. Please join us then! \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-35-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240818T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240818T120000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
CREATED:20240815T234322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T191040Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: The World Befriends Our Awkward Ways
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes I weep without warning—I don’t need to know why but it brings me home. Sometimes I trip because I’m thinking about things\, my head in the clouds. Then the world is suddenly waiting to greet me\, once again after all this time\, full of kindness. The corner of the wall where the stucco is broken\, the glass and concrete tower that leads me to remember a childhood scene—the kindness of the world is very near. \nJoin us for zazen and to consider the true nature of the world and how we inhabit it. \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-33-2-2-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240815T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240815T173000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Thursday Zen with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:NO THURSDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid Parks is on break throughout August\, returning to Thursday Zen on September 5th. Come join us then! \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US at 4 pm on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \n\n\nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-thursday-zen-with-david-parks-5/2024-08-15/
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:20240813T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240813T193000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: No Inside or Outside
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nNo Inside or Outside\nDongshan said to the assembly\, “It’s the beginning of autumn\, the end of summer\, and you brothers will go\, some to the east\, some west: you must go where there’s not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles.”\nAnd again he said\, “But where there’s not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles\, how can you go?”\nShishuang said\, “When you go out of the gate\, there is grass all over!”\nDayang said\, “I would say: Even if you don’t go out of the gate\, the grass is everywhere.” \nThis koan from Dongshan came along as I was hanging out with the golden haired-lion last week. It reminds me of another Dongshan koan involving heat and cold and going to a place where there is no heat and cold. Dongshan is speaking to people who had gathered for a retreat. The retreat had lasted for 90 days\, encompassing the rainy season during the summer when pilgrimage was not preferable.  \nAt the end of a retreat\, whether it be 90 days or seven days\, the question that is often asked is\, “How can I keep this going after I leave?” How can I keep this way of experiencing when I go out of the gate? Grass and weeds are often used as images of our ideas and concepts—delusions.  \nDongshan appears to be encouraging them to go to a place where there are no delusions\, no concepts. Perhaps they have had glimpses of that place during their long retreat. They might hear his encouraging words as a recommendation to hold on to those glimpses tightly as they go out of the gate. If they are attached to those glimpses\, they might feel that inside the gate is such a place but outside the gate is not. \nWhen we began to have retreats online\, via Zoom\, the question about bringing the place of no grass back home was eliminated\, physically at least. Sitting at home together with others sitting at their homes leads to that same place of no grass—but I’m already home. The whole question about inside and outside of the gate would seem to be eliminated. But rather than eliminated\, it becomes clear that it’s not about my physical location\, or what I am doing. There is no inside or outside of the gate. \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-17-3/
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:20240812T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240812T193000
DTSTAMP:20260509T032507
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SUMMARY:ZEN LUMINARIES: Jon Joseph in Conversation with Poet Robert Hass: On His Poetry\, Japanese Haiku\, and Working with Milosz
DESCRIPTION:Join Jon Joseph and acclaimed poet Robert Hass for a conversation about the great Japanese Haiku masters\, Hass’s poetry\, and his twenty-five-year collaboration with the poet Czeslaw Milosz. \n\nRobert Hass\, a Bay Area native\, is one of the most prolific and celebrated American poets of the last half century. He served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1995–1997\, and has been the recipient of numerous awards\, including a Pulitzer Prize\, National Book Award\, MacArthur Fellowship\, and Wallace Stevens Award. \nAmong the early influences on Hass’s work were the Chan-Zen leanings of Beat poets Gary Snyder\, Allen Ginsberg\, and Lew Welch. Later\, Hass would publish The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa (1994). Hass also translated and worked closely with Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz for many years. \nFrom the introduction to Hass’s Essential Haiku: \nWhat is in these poems [haiku] can’t be had elsewhere. About the things of the world\, and the mind looking at the things of the world\, and the moments and the language in which we try to express them\, they have unusual wakefulness and clarity. Perhaps the best way to get to it … is to read them as plainly and literally as possible. In the end\, the best advice to readers of the poems may be the advice Basho gave his writers: “Prefer vegetable broth to duck soup.” \nFrom the great haiku poet Kobayashi Issa (d. 1827): \nDon’t worry\, spiders\nI keep house\ncasually. \nExcept from Hass’s eight-page poem\, “Santa Barbara Road\,” in his book\, Human Wishes: \nHousehold verses:“Who are you?”\nthe rubber duck in my hand asked Kristin\nonce\, while she was bathing\, three years old.\n“Kristin\,” she said\, laughing\, her delicious\nname\, delicious self. “That’s just your name\,”\nthe duck said. “Who are you?” “Kristin\,”\nshe said. “Kristin’s a name. Who are you?”\nthe duck asked. She said\, shrugging\,\n“Mommy\, Daddy\, Leif.” \n\nReading a poem by Robert Hass is like stepping into the ocean when the temperature of the water is not much different from that of the air. You scarcely know\, until you feel the undertow tug at you\, that you have entered into another element. \n—Poet Stanley Kunitz \nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco in 1941 and grew up in San Rafael. In the midst of the 1950s Bay Area poetry scene\, Hass entertained the idea of becoming a beatnik. He graduated from Marin Catholic High School in 1958. When the area became influenced by East Asian literary techniques\, such as haiku\, Hass took many of these influences up in his poetry. \nHass is the author of nine poetry collections\, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the Pulitzer Prize. He served as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 1995 to 1997\, and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002. \nRobert Hass is the Distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics at the University of California Berkeley. \nsource: Wikipedia\, Library of Congress \n\n \nJon Joseph Roshi of San Mateo Zen and PZI created this series to support the hardworking innovators and shining voices of modern Zen: scholars\, writers\, poets\, translators\, activists\, artists\, teachers\, and more. \nAll proceeds for each event\, including teacher dana\, go directly to the guest speaker. Event attendees are encouraged to give as generously as you are able\, so we can offer deep thanks to Luminaries guests. \nOur suggested donation is $10 for PZI Members and $12 for Non-Members\, but the scale slides from zero depending on one’s ability to contribute. We also greatly appreciate Patrons\, who help support the program with larger gifts of $50—250. \n 
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Jon Joseph: The Journey Itself Is Home
DESCRIPTION:The months and days are like travelers of a hundred generations; the passing years are also like travelers. For those who spend their lives on a boat drifting offshore or grow old leading a horse by the mouth\, every day is a journey\, and the journey itself is home. \nThus opens Matsuo Basho’s greatest travel journal\, a collection of prose and short verse detailing his 1\,500-mile journey through the wild north of 18th century Japan. Considered dangerous travel at the time\, it became for him his richest of experiences. \nOn that route Basho met the whole of life: He heard peasants singing rice-planting songs in spring\, was mired in muddy tracks in May\, sobbed at the thick summer grasses growing over an ancient battlefield\, and was plagued by the fleas and lice sleeping with him in a horse’s stall. At the end he stood on the dark seashore as ocean waves crashed under a full autumn moon. \nBasho’s travels to the interior are not different from our own journey inward. We begin this path thinking it narrow and perhaps even perilous. But with time\, with practice together\, our hearts and minds begin to open and widen and we feel more generous. We realize that the spring is green and wet\, the summer smokey and hot—all as they should be. August tomatoes arrive on time\, welcoming us to this grand adventure. It is a good path\, this one. One worthy of our lives. \nJoin us. \n–Jon Joseph \nSunday Zen with Guest Host Jon Joseph\, August 11th\, 2024 \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-33-2-2-2/
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Hugging the Golden-Haired Lion
DESCRIPTION:A student asked Yunmen\, “What is the pure and everlasting body of reality?”\nYunmen said\, “A fence of flowers and healing herbs.”\nThe student asked\, “What’s it like when I reach there?”\nYunmen said\, “Golden haired lion!” \nAnother time when Yunmen was asked a similar question\, his reply was “dried shitstick.” Reminds me of Zhaozhou’s response to a similar question\, which was\, “Oak tree in the garden.” That’s what the pure and everlasting body of reality looks like\, sounds like\, acts like. That the image of a golden haired lion is used in reference to the intertwined nature of the real and the provisional\, emptiness and form\, is interesting\, but I doubt Yunmen had that in mind when he said it. I doubt he had anything in mind when he said it. \nI receive an inordinate number of videos featuring people hugging\, being hugged by\, rolling around with and generally being amazingly intimate with big lions\, tigers\, and all manner of big cat. I love seeing them and wish I could have a big cat with which I could to do that\, too.  \nWhat if Yunmen felt that way\, and saw the student who asked the question as a golden haired lion that he wanted to roll around with? The verse to the case would appear not to be so kind to either Yunmen\, or the student: \nA fence of flowers and healing herbs. Don’t look so stupid!\nThe pointer is on the scale arm\, not on the measuring pan.\n“…When one goes on that way…”  —What a foolish thing to say! A golden-haired lion. Everybody look! \nIndeed\, everybody look! Here are a couple of ways that a golden haired lion can look. \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-17-2/
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