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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Monday Zen is ON BREAK for Pacific Zen Luminaries. Join us next week!\n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-friends/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 22 de febrero\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-17/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:Special Event – Deep Sit Sunday Zen: Like a Buffalo Through a Window
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThis Sunday we’ll extend the temple hours for another deep sit\, silence to sink into your bones. \nAs the mind settles and we pass through the usual chatter and obsessions\, more space appears and like stars in the relief of dusk\, more interesting questions come into view. \nWondering itself\, and the mystery of our own consciousness\, becomes less a problem to corral than simply a pleasure to investigate and companion. \nClarity appears and vanishes again\, and slowly\, slowly\, we notice we’re alive and beyond resolution. \nOne teacher put it like this: \nWuzi said\, “It’s like a buffalo passing through a latticed window. Its head\, horns\, and legs all pass through\, but why can’t its tail?” \nThe tail can be all that remains unanswered in our hearts; the annoying or destructive habits of mind and body we just can’t seem to break. It can be all we wish we’d somehow done differently; but to hold it as a given\, and come to know its blessing\, is the generosity of practice. \nOf this case in the Gateless Gate Collection\, Wumen penned the verse: \nIf it passes through\, it falls into a ditch;\nif it turns back\, it will be lost.\nThis tiny little tail —\nwhat a strange and wonderful thing it is!  \nJoin us for a morning out on the Great Plains. \n—Tess Beasley\, Roshi \n\nSchedule (ALL TIMES PACIFIC): \n9AM – 11AM – Meditation & Music with Open Temple Leaders \n11AM – 12PM – Meditation\, Poetry & Reflections with John Tarrant\, Tess Beasley & Friends \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/deep-sit-sunday-zen-feb-22-26/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="John Tarrant & Tess Beasley":MAILTO:johntarrant@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T100000
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for February 21st here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-36/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T173000
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-61/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260217T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260217T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Caoshan’s Well Sees a Donkey
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nCaoshan asked a student\, “Awakening is like the empty sky.\nIt responds to things the way the moon appears in water.\nHow do you explain this responsiveness?”\nThe student said\, “It’s like a donkey seeing a well.”\nCaoshan said\, “That’s most of it\, but not the whole thing.”                                                   \n“What’s it like for you?” asked the student\,                                                                          \n“It’s like a well seeing a donkey.” said Caoshan. \nThis koan about a donkey and a well brought the peach blossom koan to mind in which reality is met just as it is without any overlay in the experience of seeing peach blossoms. Nothing but peach blossoms. That sounds like a donkey seeing a well. There’s a me seeing the well\, but without overlay\, the way the empty sky receives whatever passes through it. The student’s response is good\, as far as it goes. \nBut the student’s response leaves out the other side of the coin. To say awakening is like a donkey seeing a well speaks to the way something is still being held onto… the donkey. Caoshan’s response of “A well sees a donkey” takes away what’s being held onto. When you experience\, “a donkey sees a well” there is nothing to know. When you experience\, “a well sees a donkey” there is no one who knows. No subject\, no object\, your body and mind are “like the vast sky”. The donkey is the donkey and the well is the well and simultaneously the donkey is the well and the well is the donkey and all the barriers come down. It reminds me of the seamlessness that we talked about in the last retreat. Life is not something to be observed from a corner. To be fully alive is to see by being seen and to be seen by seeing. \nThe fact is that even adding Caoshan’s other side of the coin ‘is not the whole thing’. We can never explain it\, like the taste of tea\, it is something we must experience for ourselves. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-74/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260216T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: The Dance of the Dao
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen the wooden man begins to sing\,\nthe stone woman gets up to dance. \n—Dongshan Liangjie’s Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi \nWhat is dance if not the most fundamental celebration of life? \nTraditionally\, the stone woman represents the unborn—emptiness. She arises from the field of no-thing\, bringing life into the world. The stone woman’s dance is the dance of life\, the dance of the universe. She shows us how to dance. \n橆 \nTranslator and poet David Hinton believes Chinese ideograms paint a paleolithic\, shamanistic\, deep relationship of human beings to nature. Central to the Chinese understanding of the world is the Dao\, or Way\, which holds both Presence (form) and Absence (emptiness). Absence (wu\, mu\, no) is “undifferentiated generative source-tissue” with the ancient pictographic origins of “a woman dancing\, her swirling movements enhanced by fox tails streaming out from her hands.” \nLast holiday season I gifted my partner a package of dance lessons for the both of us. A couple months ago we went to a bar out near the coast to listen to a banging country and western band. Getting out on the dance floor\, we were a touch rusty\, but who cares if you’ve got plenty of ginger and spunk? \nIn our dance lessons\, as soon as our teacher\, a high school junior with a full set of braces\, showed us how to get on up and do the Texas Two-Step. I could feel myself stiffen like the wooden man\, self-consciously trying to get the steps just right and on time. \nStarting with my left foot\, the rhythm went “quick-quick-slow-slow.” I felt terrible my partner had not worn her steel-toed boots. Next came the “quick-quick-slow-tap-slow\,” and “quick-quick-slow-tap-slow” foot moves good for any honky-tonk in the country\, they say. Eventually I relaxed a bit. Our instructor was effusive in her praise of our rapid progress. In a couple weeks we return for a second lesson. \nDogen knew something of dancing. In his New Year’s Dharma Hall Discourse\, he writes\, \nThe sky is clear\, and moisture covers the earth. It is said\, Buddhas as numerous as the sands of the Ganges dance to exalted music\, and throughout the entire world the blossoms on the branches facing south immediately open. \nI like that. Buddhas as numerous as the sands of the Ganges dancing to honky tonk. Perhaps we are all working on our quick-quick-slow-slow step. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-friends-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260215T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260215T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Sitting Alone In My Old Clothes
DESCRIPTION:In the empty room\, the spring wind—\nsitting alone in my old clothes\,\nblossoms whirl around me. \nOur lives are transitory and everything we meet is\, well\, vast as well as transitory. \nWe notice the haze of spring blossoms\, the moon\, and the infinity of the night stars. \nThe Zen word for all this is ‘Emptiness’ which covers the dreamlike quality of our days\, the way they seem to be transparent\, and beautiful. Suffering\, yearning and delight are all in one spring rainstorm. \nJoin us this Sunday for an exploration of freedom inside of the whirl of the world. \n—John Tarrant \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-john-tarrant-friends-7-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260215T113000
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 15 de febrero\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-16/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Fayan’s Boat or Land
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFayan asked the senior student Jiao\, “Did you come by boat or land?”\nJiao said\, “I came by boat.”\n“Where is the boat?”\n“It’s on the river.”\nAfter Jiao had left\, Fayan asked a student who was standing nearby\,\n“Tell me\, that student who was just here\, could he see into reality or not?” \n—Book of Serenity Case 51 \nThere are many cases in which teachers ask\, “Where have you come from?” Fayan’s question in this koan feels like that. Confronted with a question like that\, another question comes to mind\, “Is this a regular question or a Zen question?” Either way\, knowing the difference or not knowing the difference\, tells the teacher something. \nDongshan did not know the difference when he encountered Yunmen: \nYunmen asked him\, “Where were you most recently?”\nDongshan said\, “At Chadu.”\nYunmen said\, “Where were you during the summer?”\nDongshan said\, “At Baozi Monastery in Hunan.”\nYunmen said\, “When did you leave there?”\nDongshan said\, “August 25th.”\nYunmen said\, “I spare you sixty blows.” \nIn our koan we and the student are asked by Fayan whether we think Jiao knows the difference or not. In Hongzhi’s verse on the koan the first two lines are\, \nWater cannot wash water\, gold cannot be turned into gold. \nDid Hongzhi think Jiao knew the difference? \nDo you? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-73/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260209T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260209T193000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Practice Makes Us Fetchable
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nBy what path did we come to be where we are now? What were the inconceivable karmic twists that brought us to this moment? It is hard\, perhaps impossible\, to know. As the Tang era poet Han Shan\, who often wrote on rocks and trees\, “It has been ten years since I came to Cold Mountain\, and I have forgotten the path by which I came.” \nThough we can’t know the path\, we can be open to path finding. “Practice is about making us fetchable\,” writes Joan Sutherland in Through Forests of Every Color\, ”It helps us to recognize what gets in the way of our being fetched.” \nBy the time I graduated from college I had been sitting for five or six years and wanted to travel to Japan to study Japanese and Zen for a year. I had no contacts there and found it hard to gather information from afar. But I was fetchable\, and Sutherland’s koan dragon murmured and took note. \nThat summer I worked on a salmon fishing boat\, then in a cold storage cleaning salmon\, and finally as a carpenter in Petersburg\, Alaska\, renovating the local doctor’s house. My brother\, a contractor\, was building a house for my parents in Nevada City\, in the Sierra foothills\, so I went down to help him. The second night we went to a bar and by chance met his yoga teacher. I still remember her name: Arlene Cohen. Arlene had studied Zen in Hawai’I with Robert Aitken\, and we decided to meet the following Saturday to sit Zen together. In the interim\, she had gotten a phone call that Aitken was in the area at Gary Snyder’s\, leading a sesshin\, and Arlene was invited on Saturday to listen to a teishō. \nI went along. After the teishō\, Aitken came up to me and noted that it looked like I had practiced before. I said I had\, and asked if I could finish the last three days of the sesshin at Snyder’s Kitkitdizze. He assented\, and we got to know each other a bit. I told him I was going to Japan for a year\, he suggested I visit Koun Yamada\, in Kamakura\, and wrote me a letter of introduction. \nA couple of months later\, on the way to Japan\, I stopped in Maui to stay for a few days at Aitken’s zendo there\, where a practice period was going on. The head of practice was a heavily bearded Australian named John Tarrant. I continued on to Japan\, and on the second night went to sit at the SanUn Zendo in Kamakura\, where Yamada Roshi lived. I stayed for eight years. \nCountless chances brought me to Kamakura. Had my brother not been building a house for my parents in Nevada City\, had I not gone to a bar the second night and met Arlene\, had Aitken’s people not contacted her\, had I not gone to the teishō\, had they not let me stay at Snyder’s\, had Aitken not offered to write a letter\, my life would have been vastly different.  None of this could have been planned. It was inconceivable\, crazy almost. But when I made myself fetchable\, I was fetched. \nIn the koan we are sitting with this week in Open Temple\, Fayan asks a senior student who just arrived\, “Did you come by boat or land?” The student answered\, “I came by boat.” Fayan then asked\, “Where is the boat?” The student said\, “It’s on the river.” \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-friends-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260208T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260208T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: Knowing How to Beat the Drum
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSo often the contents of the mind become worn out\, but what to do with ourselves if we’re not chasing them around anymore or asking what they mean? \nAn old Chinese teacher\, Hoshan\, spoke about it like this: \n“Studying—we call that ‘hearing’; completing study is called ‘getting nearer’. Going beyond both of these is what we mean by ‘truly going beyond’.” \nA student stepped out of the assembly and asked\, “What’s truly going beyond?” \nHoshan replied\, “Knowing how to beat the drum.” \nJoin us Sunday for meditation\, music to die for\, and an exploration of just what Hoshan means with all this drum business. \n—Tess Beasley\, Roshi \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260208T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20251217T163530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251217T163530Z
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 8 de febrero\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-15/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T100000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20251226T201632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260130T151930Z
UID:10002264-1770451200-1770458400@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for February 7th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-35/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20251217T172617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251217T172617Z
UID:10002253-1770307200-1770312600@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-60/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20251222T180100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260130T153514Z
UID:10002260-1770141600-1770147000@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Xuefeng’s What Is This? —Equanimity 50
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen Xuefeng was living in a hermitage\, two monks came to pay their respects. When he saw them coming\, Xuefeng thrust open the gate of his hermitage and jumped out\, saying\, “What is this?”\nOne of the monks also said\, “What is this?”\nXuefeng hung his head and went back inside.  \nThe monks went on to Yantou. Yantou asked\, “Where have you come from?”\n“From Lingnan\,” one monk replied.\n“Did you visit Xuefeng?” Yantou asked.\n“Yes\, we went there.” \n“What did he tell you?”\nThe monk related what happened. Yantou asked\, “What did he say after ‘What is this’?”\n“He hung his head without a word and went back inside.”\nYantou said\, “What a pity!  In those days I did not tell him the last words. If I had told him\, nobody in the world could deal with him.” \nThis monk spent the summer season with Yantou\, and at the end\, he asked what Yantou meant by his observation about Xuefeng.\nYantou asked\, “Why didn’t you ask me sooner?”\n“It is not so easy to ask you about this.”\n“Xuefeng and I were born on the same branch\, but we do not die on it.\nIf you want to know the last words\, it is ‘only just this’.” \nThis feels like a continuation of the previous koan about Dongshan and the teaching he received from his teacher Yunyan\, “Just this\, this.” Xuefeng was born twenty years after Dongshan and forty years after Yunyan\, so it’s easy to assume that the teaching of ‘just this\, this’ was circulating around in the Chan world of the time. To experience ‘just this\, this’\, you must know what ’this’ is. Xuefeng is encouraging the monks\, himself and you and I to carry the inquiry further into ‘just this\, this’ by engaging the question ‘What is this?’ \nAt the end of Yunmen’s koan about sickness and medicine he asks the question\, “What are you?” It’s jarring to think of myself as a ‘what’\, somehow more so than asking ‘Who am I’. In a similar way\, asking “What is this?” feels like it is asking more of me than “Just this\, this” \n“What is this?” reading these words. Why is it so hard to ask? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-72/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260202T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20251229T115746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260128T231831Z
UID:10002271-1770055200-1770060600@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on Feb. 9th. Join us then!\n\nWe are not alone in the world. We have each other to turn toward. All we need to do is ask. \n—Jon Joseph \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-friends-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260201T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260201T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20251217T161043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T194939Z
UID:10002240-1769938200-1769947200@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN + Final Morning of Winter Sesshin
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThis Sunday as we complete our Winter Sesshin\, we’ll open the temple for you to slip into deep meditation and our closing ceremony. \nIt’s a chance to savor the silence cultivated over days companioning the zoom temple. \nIt’s also a time to share in the joy of being alive. \nJoin us! \n—Tess Beasley\, Roshi \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-winter-sesshin-26/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260201T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260201T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20251217T163405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251217T163405Z
UID:10002248-1769938200-1769945400@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 1 de febrero\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-14/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260201T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260201T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20260201T080138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260128T234522Z
UID:10002281-1769914800-1769947200@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:PZI Winter Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Winter Sesshin Is in Session: Silence \nCLOSING DAY \nIn the PZI Online Temple with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers \nJanuary 28–February 1\, 2026
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-winter-sesshin-in-session-26-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260131T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260131T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20260131T080137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260128T234329Z
UID:10002280-1769828400-1769893200@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:PZI Winter Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Winter Sesshin Is in Session: Silence \nDAY FOUR \nIn the PZI Online Temple with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers \nJanuary 28– February 1\, 2026
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-winter-sesshin-in-session-26-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20260130T080132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260128T234046Z
UID:10002279-1769742000-1769806800@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:PZI Winter Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Winter Sesshin Is in Session: Silence \nDAY THREE \nIn the PZI Online Temple with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers \nJanuary 28– February 1\, 2026
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-winter-sesshin-in-session-26-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats,Sesshin
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tea-pouring_Winter-SESSHIN_500.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20260129T080130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260128T233842Z
UID:10002278-1769655600-1769720400@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:PZI Winter Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Winter Sesshin Is in Session: Silence \nDAY TWO \nIn the PZI Online Temple with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers \nJanuary 28– February 1\, 2026
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-winter-sesshin-in-session-26-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats,Sesshin
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260128T163100
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20260129T003028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260128T233150Z
UID:10002277-1769617860-1769634000@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:PZI Winter Sesshin in Session
DESCRIPTION:Winter Sesshin Is in Session: Silence \nOPENING NIGHT \nIn the PZI Online Temple with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers \nJanuary 28– February 1\, 2026
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/pzi-winter-sesshin-in-session-26/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats,Sesshin
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tea-pouring_Winter-SESSHIN_500.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260128T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260201T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20251215T192510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T181427Z
UID:10002234-1769617800-1769945400@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:Silence: Winter Sesshin with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers
DESCRIPTION:Silence: Winter Sesshin\nWith John Tarrant & PZI Teachers\nJanuary 28th–February 1st\, 2026\nIn the PZI Online Temple \n\n \nWinter retreat is a chance to make tea in your own kitchen and turn your home into a temple. You might discover that your whole house is sacred. The house is happy to have you doing meditation and actually loves you. \nJoin us online in the silence of retreat. \nSilence has secret powers. To meet silence is to enter the deepest questions and the deepest kindness. It befriends our dreams. Just to step into the quiet of retreat is to find healing for troubles. We feel how much we are held by our friends who know about silence. \nAt winter retreat\, even one sitting wipes away regrets and fears. When we awaken\, the universe is our friend. \nJoin us online. Turn your home into a temple. \n—John Tarrant \n\nThis 5-day & 4-night gathering begins Wednesday\, January 28th at 4:30 PM\,\nand completes on Sunday\, February 1st at 11:30 AM Pacific Time. \nDetailed Schedule: may be seen here. \nWith: John Tarrant & PZI Teachers: Tess Beasley\,\nJon Joseph\, Michelle Riddle\, & David Weinstein \nHeads of Practice: Marion Power and Jan Brogan \nRegistrar: Lora Ferguson loraferg1328@gmail.com \nWhere: Live in the PZI Online Temple \nFees: $495 for PZI Members\, $550 for Non-Members \nDokusan: (1-on-1 interviews with PZI Teachers) will be offered throughout sesshin and you will be guided to choose your preferred teachers upon checkout. *Time slots are limited\, but we will do our best to accommodate your preferences. \nScholarship for PZI Members: If you want to attend and are in need\, please don’t hesitate to request financial aid through a PZI Scholarship by contacting our registrar: Lora Ferguson at loraferg1328@gmail.com \nNot a member? Now’s your chance! Join us here. \nNote: Your registration includes free access to weekday morning meditations in our Winter Open Temple\,\n which meets January 12th–March 6th\, 2026! \n\nDear PZI Friends\, \nWe come together across oceans and continents with our members\, teachers\, musicians\, and those new to PZI. We discover things together which we could not discover alone. There’s a scholarship fund for PZI members who want to attend and need financial aid. If you’re not a member\, we invite you to join us today! \nThank you for all you’ve offered PZI over these many months and decades. It’s nice to have each other as we find our way. \n—Board President Tess Beasley Roshi & Director John Tarrant Roshi\, & All of Us at PZI \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/silence-winter-sesshin-2026-jt/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Online Retreat,PZI Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20251222T180018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260123T174321Z
UID:10002259-1769536800-1769542200@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Dongshan Holds a Memorial Service
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDongshan held a memorial service in front of Yunyan’s portrait and told the portrait story again.                                                                                                \nA student asked Dongshan\, “What did Yunnan mean by\, ‘Just this\, this!’?”\nDongshan said\, “At the time\, I almost misunderstood what my teacher really meant.”                                            The student said\, “I wonder whether Yunyan really knew what he was talking about.”\nDongshan said\, “If he didn’t know\, why would he have bothered to say anything? If he did know\, why was he willing to say it like that?” \n—Book of Serenity Case 49 \nI think it would be helpful to know what the “portrait story” is: \nDongshan had been studying with Yunyan for a while and was thinking about leaving.\nYunyan said\, “If you leave\, it will be difficult to see each other again.”\nDongshan said\, “It will be difficult not to see each other.”\nAs Dongshan was about to go\, he asked\, “After your death\, if people ask whether I have your portrait\, how should I respond?”\nAfter a long pause\, Yunyan answered\, “Just this\, this!”\nDongshan sighed.\nThen Yunyan said\, “Reverend Liang\, now that you have taken on this great matter\, you must consider it carefully.”\nBut Dongshan continued to have doubts. Later as he crossed a stream he saw his reflection in the water and awakened to Yunyan’s meaning. Then he wrote this verse: \nDon’t look elsewhere\, far from yourself\,\nNow I’m walking alone\, but I meet him everywhere\,\nNow he’s exactly me\, now I’m not him\,\nYou have to understand this way to join with what is. \nThe first koan in the Book of Equanimity came to join in the conversation with the portrait koan. That first koan goes like this: \nOne day\, the World-Honored One ascended to the rostrum. Manjusri struck the white gavel and said\, “Contemplate clearly the Dharma of the King of the Dharma. The Dharma of the King of the Dharma is just this!” The Buddha then stepped down from the rostrum. \nThis koan with Dongshan and Yunyan is an example of an 8th century Chan teacher echoing the teaching of the Buddha\, some thirteen centuries earlier. While I was at the Koko An Zendo in Honolulu\, Aitken Roshi sometimes invited a professor from the University of Hawaii philosophy department to come and talk. His name was David Kalapuhana\, and his field of interest was what he called “Original Buddhism\,” what others call Theravada. \nWhat interested Aitken Roshi was Kalapuhana’s feeling that Chan\, and later Zen\, were movements back towards the original teachings of the Buddha. A lot happened to Buddhism in those thirteen centuries between Shakyamuni and Dongshan and Yunyan\, yet Yunyan went back to the beginning to summarize his teachings for Dongshan. \nFeels to me like our way of practicing goes back beyond the Buddha into the time before Daoism or Confucianism or the pyramids in Egypt and South America. It’s as old as human consciousness\, a way of working with that burden and blessing. \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-71/
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:20260126T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260126T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20251229T115824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260124T170245Z
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Gaia Dreams of Rivers
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n“Whatever the river says\,” wrote William Stafford\, “That’s what I say.” Immersed in the river of being; how can it be otherwise for us? Braiding\, threading\, merging; the many streams of our lives join\, eventually\, in the great sea. \nI dream of rivers. In the fall\, Chinook\, coho and steelhead school in the Pacific just off the mouths of the Northwest rivers\, waiting for the seasonal rains to flood and break through summer sand berms covering many entrances. Instinct tells them to make their way upstream to lay and fertilize eggs\, and\, for the salmon\, to die. \nSomebody once asked Zhaozhou\, “What does a newborn baby think about?”\nZhaozhou said\, “Well\, it’s kind of like tossing a ball into a rushing stream.”\n\nA monk asked of another teacher what that meant\, and they said\,\n“Moment by moment\, nonstop flow.”\n\nI dream of rivers. Some nights ago my father came\, something he had not done for a while since his passing seventeen years ago. There he was across a darkened room\, walking toward me\, holding out a large box of about two dozen fishing flies as an offering\, keeping his gaze downward. I took the box and thanked him. \nLater that night I found myself fly fishing in a large river. The clear\, cool water swirled around my waist as I made long\, arcing casts of the fly liner. Back cast\, forward cast\, back cast\, and a final forward shooting cast with the line snapping tight a couple feet above the water\, then softly drifting to the surface. \nThe wet fly sank down a foot or two. I couldn’t see anything but I could feel a tugging on the line. My fishing partner exclaimed\, “You’ve got one on!” I said I wasn’t sure. It’s a practice\, this catch and release. \nGaia dreams of rivers. We worry about Gaia but I think she mostly worries about us. In Vancouver\, Canada\, a couple of weeks ago I visited the Museum of Anthropology and its magnificent display of First Nations art: towering Haida totem poles\, great Salish sea canoes\, ornate basketry and beadwork. This\, the wealthiest culture north of the Aztec in Mexico\, was known as the “salmon culture” based on the abundance of this rich fish. \nThe story of the Northwest salmon parallels that of the original people: a ninety-five percent collapse of the population\, overfishing\, loss of habitat\, illness. \nYet there is some dream of the return of the “salmon people\,” as the fish were once called. Coho populations on the Oregon coast have recovered to levels not seen in sixty-five years. In 2024\, the first year that four dams were removed from the Klamath River\, nearly 10\,000 fish returned to 420 miles of recovered spawning grounds. Last year\, Chinook were seen in the Russian River and Sonoma Creek watersheds for the first time in decades. We dream of rivers. The salmon\, too\, they dream of rivers. \n—Jon Joseph \nArt: “Spawning Colors\,” Far North Nature Prints \n\nJon Joseph Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Mondays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. Register to participate. All are welcome. \nJon Joseph Roshi\, Director of San Mateo Zen Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/monday-zen-with-jon-joseph-friends-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260125T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260125T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T112724
CREATED:20251217T163238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251217T163238Z
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 25 de enero\nde 9:30 a 11:30 hrs (Hora estándar de Chile)\nPráctica guiada por Sensei Eduardo Fuentes\nUn evento en línea de PZI\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nÚnanse a nosotros el domingo para meditación con koans\, charla dharma y conversación. Todos son bienvenidos. \n—Sensei Eduardo Fuentes
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/domingo-zen-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-13/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:Special Event: Deep Sit Sunday Zen – The Sound of One Hand
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nTo sit is to let the universe discover you\, to make room for a relief of quiet to appear in your mind and heart. \nTo sit over time is to let yourself be held and surprised by the companionship of the world\, and by the temple that emerges in your very own home. \nPractice itself can take a hundred thousand forms but at the root is simply to sit and encounter your own nature. \nSo\, the last Sunday of each month we’re going to extend our temple hours\, but let the ancient bell do most of the talking. \nA single hand doesn’t call out in vain\, wrote Xuedou. \nWhat is the sound of one hand?  \nJoin us Sunday for any and all as we breathe together and listen. \n—Tess Beasley\, Roshi \n\nSchedule (ALL TIMES PACIFIC): \n9AM – 11AM – Meditation & Music with Open Temple Leaders \n11AM – 12PM – Meditation\, Poetry & Reflections with John Tarrant\, Tess Beasley & Friends \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/deep-sit-sunday-zen-jan-25-2026/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for January 24th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-34/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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