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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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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
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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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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/
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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
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph
DESCRIPTION: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
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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
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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
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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
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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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/zen-luminaries-jon-joseph-in-conversation-with-poet-robert-haas/
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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/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Growing Horns on Your Head
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nTrying to explain\, you regretfully grow horns on your head:\nBe wary of the desire to search for the Buddha.\nIn this time of vast emptiness\, there is no one who can know\,\nso why head south in search of the many sages?\n \n     –Dongshan’s second set of Five Ranks\, fifth verse. \nThis is the final poem in the second set of Dongshan’s Five Ranks\, a series of poems that we use as a final stage in our formal koan curriculum. For me\, this poem is an admonition on how to pursue our practice and lives at whatever stage we find ourselves. \nIn koan study\, we say “show rather than tell.” That merely means in addressing a koan we accept its singular invitation to join in the play of everyday life. It is an invitation to open our hearts. \nIn Dongshan’s verse\, there is no need to explain (and grow horns)\, there is no need to search for the Buddha\, who after all\, is right here. The time of vast emptiness is our time\, and it is a world of not knowing. Moment by moment\, we and the universe appear fresh and new. So why go seeking all those sages who have nothing to add? \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-35-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Summertime
DESCRIPTION:The Dharma is a long and ancient conversation \nEmperor Wenzong wrote\, \nPeople suffer from the burning heat\, but I always love the summer days. \nThe poet Liu Gongquan replied\, \nA fragrant breeze blows from the south\,\ngiving rise in the palace to a refreshing coolness. \nAt these words Dahui was enlightened. \nAnd this became a koan. \nThis summer I was looking forward to that cool breeze and to the thoughts falling out of my mind. Other things happened instead\, sometimes mad and sometimes hard to welcome. \nThey included great fires\, a friend with a brain tumor\, the Olympics\, an intense and vivid covid in which I had conversations with Avalokitesvara. Also\, not going to Provence to friends and lavender fields was part of the yearning of it. \nIn the end it was beautiful. \nJoin us on Sunday when we are all at the center of the universe \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-33-2-2-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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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-5/2024-08-01/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: The Alchemical Process of Losing and Finding
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nSomeone asked\, “What is meditating and seeing things just as they are?”\nYunmen said\, “A coin lost in the river is found in the river.” \n“Where is my phone? Where are my keys? Where are my glasses?” I ask myself these questions\, accompanied by a sinking feeling in my gut\, multiple times a day. I am not sure if it is getting worse\, or I am getting better at noticing it more. Recently I was looking for a pair of scissors that I had just used and put down\, which had mysteriously disappeared\, though I had not moved. I found the scissors where I left them\, right in front of me. That’s when the koan about the coin lost in the river paid me a visit. \nI remembered that this saying of Yunmen’s was the response to the question\, “What is meditating and seeing things clearly?” Rather than a description of a static state\, Yunmen gives a description of a process. The process is losing and finding and then losing again and finding again. Reminds me of the alchemical process of dissolution and coagulation. \nThose scissors that I was looking for were hidden under a piece of paper that I had placed on top of them. Just like the way I obscure my ability to see things clearly by putting things\, ideas\, my opinions and agendas\, on top of what’s there. Of course\, then there is the added story that I put on top of that\, something along the lines of “Who moved them?” or “Not again!” or “What’s the matter with me?” \nThe fact is\, I lost my attention before I lost the scissors and it found me again in the midst of having lost it. Sometimes an awakening experience is described as remembering something you did not know you had forgotten. It was kind of like that. I noticed that I was clinging to my idea about where I left the scissors and my idea about myself\, when I remembered my attention\, which I had not noticed that I had forgotten. I had the spaciousness to be able to look other places than where I thought I left them. I was able to be aware of other possibilities. \nLost anything lately? Find it? What was that like? \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-16-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Ordinary Beings and Buddhas Don't Mingle
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nOrdinary beings and Buddhas don’t mingle together.\nMountains by nature are high\, and waters by nature are deep.\nThe infinite distinctions\, the endless differences reveal—\nwhere partridges sing\, the myriad flowers bloom. \n—Dongshan’s Five Ranks\, Fourth Verse of Second Set \nIn this verse by one of the great Chan-Zen masters and poets of the Tang era\, the ordinariness of the world is revealed as the natural way of things. Buddhas and ordinary beings don’t mingle because we can’t distinguish them. \nNaturally\, mountains are high and waters deep. Even the endless ways in which we separate ourselves from the world—the ten thousand differences and thousand distinctions—are not wrong\, not a problem. It is that very delusion and dark matter that makes a place for partridges to sing and flowers to bloom. \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-34-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:NO SUNDAY ZEN TODAY \nJohn Tarrant is away in July. \nCome join us for our next Sunday Zen on August 4th! \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\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-10-2/2024-07-28/
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CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Dharma at the End of Summer
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nSummer is more than halfway done. Already I am starting to grieve. Every year I look forward to the blueberries in May\, and then it is a joy to greet ripe blackberries towards the end of June. Now\, the blackberries are finished and the blueberries are only a memory. Now we are picking tomatoes and cantaloupes. Our summer garden is soon done. When I look at the trees\, they seem tired\, the pawpaw already dropping its leaves. Now just half way through\, Genevieve said to me last night\, “It is beginning to feel like fall\,” as the cooling wind blew our faces.  \nDongshan’s big question as he practiced under Nanquan was whether inanimate objects preach the dharma or not. Well\, yes\, rocks and sticks\, and pawpaws and blueberries\, too; tomatoes and cantaloupes and peppers\, all preach\, practice the dharma\, and accompany us on the Way. So\, the end of the summer practice period is in the air. \nSummer is a time for practice. Just as Pacific Zen Institute gathered in retreat in June and Bluegrass Zen went on retreat in early July\, the monks of Tang Dynasty gathered in monasteries all summer to practice the Way. That’s what we have been doing\, all summer we bodhisattvas have practiced the Way of the Open Heart in person and in the online practice of the PZI Open Temple. Now\, it’s in the wind\, in the whitening leaves – the summer practice is winding down.  \nThis brings me to today’s koan\, from the Blue Cliff Record\, Case 8. It was at the end of a summer practice period that Cuiyang (Kingfisher-Cliff Mountain) engaged his dharma brothers\, Baofu (Prosper-Nurture Mountain) Changqing and Yunmen (Cloud-Gate Mountain) in a conversation. Here is a mash up of the koan using David Hinton’s translation and others: \nInstructing the assembled sangha at the end of summer session\, Kingfisher-Cliff Mountain said: “I’ve been here all summer for you\, my friends. I’ve talked and talked. Now\, look closely at this Kingfisher-Cliff: Did my eyebrows fall out?”\n“It takes an empty mind to be a thief\,” observed Prosper-Nurture Mountain.\n“Revealed\,” quipped Reward-Perpetua Mountain.\n“Barrier\,” declared Cloud-Gate Mountain. \nThis is an interesting koan. First\, about those eyebrows: there is a Chinese folk tale that says when someone distorts the dharma their eyebrows fall out\, and as they communicate with wisdom and insight they grow. Is Cuiyan really concerned? And Cuiyan’s dharma brothers\, what of them as they make their response? “Barrier!” called out Yunmen. \nI think of the ways I check myself as I approach the end of something\, a season\, a relationship\, the ways that I evaluate as good or bad\, my behavior\, actions\, thoughts\, feelings. Is this what Kingfisher-Cliff Mountain is up to? Here he is with his dharma siblings\, all students of Xuefeng and all renowned Chan Masters. Is he checking himself\, calling himself out as wrong? Or are the four of them having what we might call a good time? But mostly\, I just can’t get over Kingfisher Cliff and those eye brows\, him sticking his face out\, asking everyone to look\, “Now\, look closely at this Kingfisher-Cliff: Did my eyebrows fall out?” Which face do they see? Do you remember this koan\, also from the Blue Cliff\, Zhaozhou’s Stone Bridge: \nA monk said to Visitation-Land: “I’ve long heard talk about how Visitation-Land is a stone bridge. But now I’ve come\, all I see is a little plank.”\n“Well\, if all you see is a little plank\,” replied Land\, “Of course you don’t see a stone bridge.”\n“What is this stone bridge?” asked the monk.\n“Mules cross-beyond over it. Horses cross-beyond over it.” \nLet’s get together on Thursday and have a conversation about Kingfisher-Cliff Mountain and his eyebrows at the end of the summer practice period. \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-31-3/
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Every Day Is a Doorway
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nYunmen said\, “I don’t ask you about before awakening\, say something about after awakening.”\nHe answered himself saying\, “Every day is a good day.” \nThe prospect of every day being a good day is attractive. Equanimity in the midst of chaos sounds like a preferred way for things to go. It’s not uncommon to think that after awakening everything is going to be fine: no more troubles\, no more problems. Attaining Nirvana\, paradise\, is the goal\, right? Depends on what Nirvana means to you. \nMark Twain’s book\, Letters from the Earth\, is a series of letters from Archangel Satan reporting back to God about his creation. One thing that puzzles Satan is the way that humans think of heaven. When they are alive\, they do not look forward to the experience of spending Sunday in church. However\, Satan notes\, their conception of heaven seems to be an eternal Sabbath with angels singing and church bells ringing. \nMore recently\, and similarly\, David Byrne wrote in his song\, Heaven: “Heaven\, heaven is a place\, a place where nothing\, nothing ever happens.” If nothing ever happens\, nothing bad can happen—is that Heaven? The path of meditation is sometimes called the middle way. In pursuit of the ‘middle\,’ we can practice in such a way as to cut off the highs and lows of life\, leaving nothing but the middle\, which is a kind of dead way to live. There are fewer traumas\, but less life too\, and that itself is a trauma. \nYunmen’s good day is not a day when nothing bad happens\, when nothing unwanted happens\, when there are no fires and no smoke\, no positive Covid tests. It is the whole enchilada\, containing it all. Our meditation practice gives us access to a doorway out of our small\, safe\, constructed life into something larger—and that’s good. \nJoin us. \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-16-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Riding Backward on the Jade Elephant
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nA flower blooms on a dead tree; a spring outside of time.\nRiding backward on a jade elephant\, we chase a dragon-deer with wings.\nNow hidden beyond endless mountains\, the moon is white and the breeze clear as a pleasant day breaks. \nIn this third verse of the second grouping of Dongshan’s Five Ranks we visit a fantastical\, dreamlike landscape that stands outside of time. The tree that was once old and dead is now freshly revived with spring flowers. The powerful jade elephant serves as our mount\, as we sit backward\, chasing the mythical kirin: part horse\, dragon\, and deer. She is a gentle messenger of good luck\, peace and prestige. Hidden deep in the mountains\, we are fortunate enough to see the moon bright\, the air clear\, and a beautiful dawn breaking. \nThis is not a dream\, Dongshan is saying. This is our life. \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-34-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:NO SUNDAY ZEN TODAY \nJohn Tarrant is away in July. \nCome join us for our next Sunday Zen on August 4th! \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\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-10-2/2024-07-21/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240716T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240716T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: What Is Your Original Face?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nQuickly\, without thinking good or evil\,\nwhat is your original face before your parents were born? \n—Gateless Barrier Case 23 \nThat word “quickly” quickly got my attention. Some translations don’t have it but most do\, which is interesting. That it has survived all this time as part of the koan speaks to me about the importance of “quickly.” I was reminded that according to Buddhist teachings there are sixty-four thought moments in the snap of a finger. Huineng is encouraging us to be quicker than that. \nI recently saw an article about a skydiver who became the first person to break the sound barrier while skydiving\, going faster than the speed of sound. Huineng is urging us to go faster than the speed of thought\, to break the thought barrier. \nCheck it out\, how quickly do ideas about good or bad\, this or that\, self or other come to mind? \nThe other thing that came along as I was keeping company with this koan was part of last week’s koan\, specifically the part that asks\,“What are you?” \nOriginal face feels like a fitting response. \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-16-4/
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:20240715T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240715T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Who Calls You Home from the Rough Mountains?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nFor whom do you bathe and make yourself beautiful?\nThe sound of the cuckoo calls me home.\nA hundred flower blossoms fall\, but the call is not stilled.\nI go deeply into the rough mountains\, and the call is there.   \nThese arrestingly beautiful lines\, the seventh verse in the two five-verse collection called Dongshan’s Five Ranks\, are some of the most lovely and poignant poetry in all of Chan-Zen. Why do we make ourselves beautiful by bathing and putting on makeup?  \nThe hauntingly gorgeous call of the cuckoo is our constant companion. It follows us home\, it watches as we witness the hundred flower blossoms fall. It accompanies us as we trek deeply into the rough and broken peaks. This poem tells us\, in a gorgeous and gracious way\, that wherever we find ourselves\, we are not alone\, either among the flowers or in the rough and broken mountains. \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-34-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240714T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240714T120000
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CREATED:20240709T220646Z
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends
DESCRIPTION:NO SUNDAY ZEN TODAY \nJohn Tarrant is away in July. \nCome join us for our next Sunday Zen on August 4th! \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\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-10-2/2024-07-14/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240711T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240711T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Bathing in the Mountain Forest
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\nIn the old days there were sixteen bodhisattvas. When it was time to bathe they got into the bath together. They suddenly realized the cause of water and said\, “This subtle touch releases the brightness. We have become the sons and daughters of the Buddha.” \n—Blue Cliff Record\, Case 78 \nLast week\, Bluegrass Zen made a trip into the Eastern Kentucky Mountains for a summer retreat. We were fifteen bodhisattvas\, who over five days—waking\, sleeping\, eating\, walking—meditated and practiced with koans. We were joined by a canine companion\, Shadow\, and accompanied by sweet mountain birds\, who sang us to and to the meditation hall every morning and evening. Their song resounded throughout the mountain forest. \nOne day a fierce storm bore down: lightening flashing\, wind blowing\, and thunder rolling. Birds\, storms\, songs\, walks up steep mountain hillsides\, breath heaving and heart beating along with the songs and storms alive in our hearts. We welcomed the fullness of what it is to be alive. \nIn the words of Thursday’s koan\, we got into the bath together immersing ourselves in the fullness of abundant life. \nComplete and full immersion in what life might bring\, beyond good and bad\, reveals the light that shines in all things. That is what we’ll be exploring on Thursday. \nJoin us. \n\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-31-2/
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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