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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDon’t grab hold\, just allow the meditation to come to you. Same with koans\, they will come. It is like a dance\, a call and response.  \n—David Parks \n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US on Thursdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Parks Roshi\, Director of Bluegrass Zen
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/thursday-zen-with-david-parks-60/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260202T180000
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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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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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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260128T163100
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260128T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260201T113000
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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
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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260125T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260125T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251217T161024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260121T195409Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260124T100000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251226T201603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T195541Z
UID:10002265-1769241600-1769248800@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 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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251217T172550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251217T172550Z
UID:10002254-1769097600-1769103000@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-59/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260120T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251222T175951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T200720Z
UID:10002258-1768932000-1768937400@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Vimalakirti's Silence
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen I write about the weekly koan\, first I look for an image. \nThis week as I searched for “images of silence\,” I couldn’t find one that quite hit the spot. Then I recalled my recent three weeks in Japan\, spent on the coast sixty miles southwest of Tokyo\, where from the veranda at our place it’s possible to look straight down and see waves crashing against the rocky coast. The sound of waves is a constant backdrop. \nThat constant presence can lead them to being silent\, a blank paper waiting for the brush and ink of whatever other sounds are present. Late at night\, in the dark\, listening to the regular rhythm of the waves\, like the breathing of the ocean\, the breathing of the earth\, the sound of the waves can become the only sound\, the only thing at all\, and there is also the silence. \nI think Vimalakirti’s silence was like that. The only thing there was at all. \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-70/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251229T115901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T132107Z
UID:10002269-1768845600-1768851000@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return next week. We hope you 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-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251216T151835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T200853Z
UID:10002235-1768845600-1768851000@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:PACIFIC ZEN LUMINARIES: Wherever You Go – Jon Joseph & Friends in Conversation with Jon Kabat-Zinn
DESCRIPTION:Jon Kabat-Zinn\, Ph.D. joins host Jon Joseph & Friends to discuss his 60 years of meditation practice\, prolific writing\, and outstanding work as a pioneer in the insight and mindfulness meditation movement. \nJon is professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School\, where he founded its world-renown Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic in 1979\, and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine\, Health Care\, and Society (CFM)\, in 1995. Both the MBSR Clinic and the CFM are now part of UMassMemorial Health. \nHis work and that of his colleagues has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness practice now used in numerous mainstream institutions throughout the world including medicine\, psychology\, education\, social and criminal justice\, sports\, and technology. Over 700 hospitals and medical centers around the world now offer MBSR. \nPlease join us in welcoming Jon\, one of the great contributors to globalization of meditation practice today. \nSource: https://jonkabat-zinn.com \n“deally\, meditation is not something we do\, but something we live. Jon Kabat-Zinn points the way to this living spirit with clarity\, ease\, and poetry. \n—Sharon Salzberg\, author of Lovingkindness and Faith \n[Wherever You Go\, There You Are] shines with an exquisite simplicity and straightforwardness. Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the best teachers of mindfulness you will ever meet. \n—Jack Kornfield\, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy\, the Laundry \n\n \nJon Joseph Roshi of San Mateo Zen and PZI created this series to support the hardworking innovators and shining voices of modern Zen: scholars\, writers\, poets\, translators\, activists\, artists\, teachers\, and more. \nAll proceeds for each event\, including teacher dana\, go directly to the guest speaker. Event attendees are encouraged to give as generously as you are able\, so we can offer deep thanks to Luminaries guests.
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/luminaries-jon-kabat-zinn-01-19-26/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260118T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260118T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251217T160956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260119T190503Z
UID:10002238-1768732200-1768737600@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: Where All the Buddha's Teachings Have Their Source
DESCRIPTION:This is the cave where all the Buddha’s teachings have their source.  \nSo goes the companion verse to the first Pure Vow: I vow to do no harm. \nBodhidharma sat in a cave for nine years\, allowing the whole universe to slowly appear inside. The world carried on its rending and machinations\, and he felt them deeply\, but came to know something generous and whole that carried him and carried everything; without gain or loss\, without certainty or regret. \nIn taking up a practice\, we too develop a relationship with a place we can turn\, no matter the circumstances. Its contents are surprising and mysterious\, its capacity vast and bright. \nJoin us Sunday for meditation\, music\, and stories of spelunking the ancient caves we uncover inside. \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-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260118T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260118T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251217T163104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251217T163104Z
UID:10002246-1768728600-1768735800@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 18 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-12/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260113T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251222T175925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T115544Z
UID:10002257-1768327200-1768332600@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Mount Fuji Obscured by Clouds
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nMount Fuji\,\nobscured by clouds\,\nthat’s interesting \n—Basho \nI took a photo of Mount Fuji and clouds during my most recent trip to Japan. My wife and I had gone to the Jukkoku Togei\, a 3000-foot mountain pass near the town of Atami\, in hopes of catching a view of that famous peak. When we arrived and saw a bunch of clouds between us and the mountain\, the poem by Basho came to mind. \nWhat could be interesting about making the effort to see Mount Fuji yet not seeing Mount Fuji because it’s obscured by clouds? \nIt is the same thing that’s interesting about making the effort to see ourselves clearly and finding ourselves obscured by the clouds of delusion. \nIn Japan\, seeing the New Year’s Day sunrise is considered to bring good luck in the new year. This is what it looked like this year: \n \nIt’s a much more interesting image because of the presence of clouds! Sitting in zazen\, obscured by the clouds of my delusions—that’s interesting. \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-69/
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:20260112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251229T114546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T183635Z
UID:10002267-1768240800-1768246200@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Attention\, Attention
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times\, to be of the present\, nothing-but-the-present\, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.\n\n —Peter Matthiessen\, The Snow Leopard\n\nIn 1979 Jon Kabat-Zinn founded the Stress Reduction Clinic and MBSR program (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Wouster. His program and world-renowned book\, Full Catastrophe Living\, originally intended to improve patient health outcomes\, is not only found in over 700 hospitals worldwide\, but has also been applied in psychology\, sports\, business\, and criminal justice\, impacting thousands\, if not millions\, of lives. \nThe wellspring of mindfulness meditation is Buddhist\, but Kabat-Zinn’s approach is decidedly secular. In one of his popular books\, Wherever You Go\, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life\, he writes\, \n“Mindfulness has been called the heart of Buddhist meditation. Its power lies in its practice and its applications. In my vocabulary\, ‘mindfulness’ is synonymous with pure awareness. It is a profound inborn human capacity. You already have it. We all do. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say we are it\, as it is such a fundamental element of our nature as human beings. So there is nothing to get here\, except perhaps out of our own way\, so that easy access to the spaciousness of awareness emerges on its own.” \nSome further excerpts from the book: \n“Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel and knowing it in awareness in that moment. It’s not about making the mind empty or still\, although stillness does deepen in meditation and can be cultivated systematically. Above all\, meditation is about letting the mind be as it is and knowing something about how it is in this moment. \n“It is more rightly thought of as a “Way” than as a technique. It is a Way of being\, a Way of living\, a Way of listening\, a Way of walking the path of life and being in harmony\, in wise relationship\, with things as they are rather than as we might idealistically want them to be. This means in part acknowledging that sometimes\, often at very crucial times in life\, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the path lies. \n“The truly interesting question here is “What is my Way?’ with a capital W…We don’t have to come up with answers or think there has to be one particular answer. Better not to think at all. Instead\, only persist in asking the question\, letting any answers that formulate just come of themselves and go of themselves…“What is my Way?” “What is my path?” “Who am I?” \nIn such a day\, in September or October\, Walden is a perfect forest mirror\, set round with stones as precious to my eye as if fewer or rarer. Nothing so fair\, so pure\, and at the same time so large\, as a lake\, perchance\, lies on the surface of the earth. Sky water. It needs no fence. Nations come and go without defiling it. It is a mirror which no stone can crack\, whose quicksilver will never wear off\, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms\, no dust\, can dim its surface everfresh…which retains no breath that is breathed on it…\n\n—Henry David Thoreau\, Walden; or Life in the Woods \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-81/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260306T070000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20260106T155624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260306T122914Z
UID:10002276-1768190400-1772780400@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:OPEN TEMPLE: 8-Week Winter Meditation Pass: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Open Temple is currently ON BREAK and will return on March 16th. New link coming soon!\n\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\,\nJanuary 12th–March 6th\, 2026. All are welcome. PZI Members attend FREE.* \nPractice leaders will ring the bells and hold a cushion for you. Join us! \n*Open Temple will always remain free of cost as one of the benefits of PZI membership. However\, if you have the means and feel inclined\, donations of any size are immensely appreciated! Just click Add Something Else when checking out your cart. Thank you! \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) \n\nYour Temple Zoom Link\nThe recurring Zoom link for Open Temple access will be in your emailed receipt\,\nfor entrance to ALL morning meditations. \nPZI Members FREE\, Non-Members $125 \nQuestions? Or to check your membership status\, contact Lucas at 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
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/open-temple-winter-meditation-pass-2026/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Open Temple
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251217T160929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T195532Z
UID:10002237-1768127400-1768132800@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Only the Young Beauty Knows About Her Love Affair
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIt’s not for anyone else that we meditate\, or eat or drink or look at the olive tree or watch the mountain stream run white. \nThe taste of life is just for you\, you have entered the secret life. \nAll evening\, the sound of rain.\nAt midnight\, raccoons\npass under the bare apricot tree \n—John Tarrant\, 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-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260111T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260111T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251217T162927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251217T162927Z
UID:10002245-1768123800-1768131000@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 11 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-11/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/EduardoFuentes_CALENDAR500x375.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260110T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260110T100000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251226T201529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260108T161149Z
UID:10002263-1768032000-1768039200@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 January 10th here.  \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-33/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260108T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260108T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
CREATED:20251217T172515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T122414Z
UID:10002252-1767888000-1767893400@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: Who Is Hearing?
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-58/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260106T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T143709
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today\, but will return on January 13th. We hope you join us then!\n\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-on-break-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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