BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Pacific Zen Institute - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.pacificzen.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Pacific Zen Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Santiago BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:-04 DTSTART:20240407T030000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:-03 DTSTART:20240908T040000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:-04 DTSTART:20250406T030000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:-03 DTSTART:20250907T040000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:-04 DTSTART:20260405T030000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:-03 DTSTART:20260906T040000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:-04 DTSTART:20270404T030000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:-03 DTSTART:20270905T040000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260125T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260125T120000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251217T161024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260121T195409Z UID:10002239-1769331600-1769342400@www.pacificzen.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Borneo-cave-painting-hand-print_500.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260124T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260124T100000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Buddha-laying-down.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T173000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/DPR-Headshot_500x375.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260120T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260120T193000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Silence_500x375.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T193000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/wooden-bucketCALENDAR500x350.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T193000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Jon-Kabat-Zinn_square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260118T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260118T120000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Mural_Avolokitesvara_500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260118T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260118T113000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/EduardoFuentes_CALENDAR500x375.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260113T193000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Mt.-Fuji-Obscured.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T193000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Birch_still-pond_500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260306T070000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Winter-cabin-trail_500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T120000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/picasso-girl-in-mirror_500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260111T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260111T113000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260110T100000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Buddha-laying-down.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260108T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260108T173000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/DPR-Headshot_500x375.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260106T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260106T193000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251229T120224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T120416Z UID:10002275-1767722400-1767727800@www.pacificzen.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/wooden-bucketCALENDAR500x350.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260105T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260105T193000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251229T114653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T114653Z UID:10002268-1767636000-1767641400@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: ON BREAK DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on January 12th. 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-on-break-13/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/wooden-bucketCALENDAR500x350.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260104T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260104T120000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251217T160858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T201744Z UID:10002236-1767522600-1767528000@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: Traveling by Moonlight DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\nWaking just after 1am\, I see deer grazing in the white night of the full moon. They’re digging patiently\, expertly\, anciently for grass tucked under the blanket of snow. Their coats are thick and the world is quiet. \nThe flue bangs closed without effort\, the house happy to keep warm\, and large ears turn to face the darkness. \nEverything stands open and intimate. Nothing need be accounted for or understood. \nWhen all the thoughts in your head are all used up\, why does joy remain? \nJoin us Sunday to find out as we feel our way into the year appearing. \n—Tess Beasley\, Roshi \n\n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/sunday-zen-with-tess-beasley-friends/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Traveling-by-Moonlight_500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20260104T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20260104T113000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251217T162609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251217T162609Z UID:10002244-1767519000-1767526200@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español) DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 4 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-10/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/EduardoFuentes_CALENDAR500x375.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251230T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251230T193000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251201T195109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T120536Z UID:10002233-1767117600-1767123000@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: ON BREAK DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today\, but will return on January 6th. 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-2/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/wooden-bucketCALENDAR500x350.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251229T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251229T190000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251010T172944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T114730Z UID:10002203-1767029400-1767034800@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: ON BREAK DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on January 12th. 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-on-break-12/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/wooden-bucketCALENDAR500x350.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251228T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251228T120000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251008T143301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T162358Z UID:10002201-1766917800-1766923200@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: Eternity Draws Near – With A Special Extended Meditation Series DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhether through billowing clouds\, rushing rivers\, or softly falling snow\, eternity uncloaks itself as the mind grows still. We come to recognize each and every bit of things as alive and unfolding\, and discover that we\, too\, are inextricable from the great magic trick of existence. \nShitou Xiquan\, one of Zen’s great founding ancestors\, tells us in Taking Part in the Gathering: \nEach thing by nature has worth\,\nbut we notice it is shaped by its circumstances.\nThings fit together like boxes and lids\,\nwhile the absolute is like arrows meeting in mid-air.\nWhen you let these words in\, you encounter the ancestors;\nDon’t limit yourself to your own small story. \nIn these last days of the year\, all that’s been and all that’s to come find each other in the dark for a cuddle and a dance. Nothing is certain\, and with any luck\, we just might have a dream. \nJoin us this Sunday for a special extended meditation series by candlelight\, and then at 10:30 PT we’ll gather for stories\, music\, and whatever the Tao may have in store. \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-74-2/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BolinasFullMoon25_500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20251228T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251228T113000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251008T141412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T141412Z UID:10002193-1766914200-1766921400@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español) DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 28 de diciembre\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/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/EduardoFuentes_CALENDAR500x375.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251228T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251228T100000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251221T193905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T162402Z UID:10002256-1766890800-1766916000@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:A Special Extended Meditation Series: Silence in the Temple of Marichi\, the Bodhisattva of Light\, Goddess of Dawn DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThere’s a solitary brightness without fixed shape or form.\nIt knows how to listen to the teachings\,\nit knows how to understand the teachings\, it knows how to teach.\nThat solitary brightness is you. \n—Linji \nMarichi manifests the eternal dawn that dwells within us and calls on us to awaken\, change\, and enlighten the world. \nJoin us as we sit together in community\, to usher out 2025\, and usher in the return of the light. \nWe’ll begin at 6:00 am Eastern (3:00 am Pacific) with continuous periods of 25-minutes meditation and 5-minutes break. A number of our Open Temple leaders have volunteered to make this possible\, so they’ll be passing the baton every few periods\, and you’re welcome to join at any time. \nAt 10:00 am Pacific Time\, we will have a 30–minute break before Sunday Zen begins at 10:30 am Pacific Time. Tess Beasley\, Roshi will cap our morning with Sunday’s temple\, music\, and talk. \nWe would love to see you for any or all of the event. \nBring your silence\, candlelight\, and your light & dark to join others on screen. \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/special-sunday-meditation-12-25/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Solstice_winter_pine_500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251225T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251225T173000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251024T161632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T161632Z UID:10002227-1766678400-1766683800@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: ON BREAK DESCRIPTION:David is not teaching today\, but will return on January 8th. We hope you join us then!\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-on-break-4/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/wooden-bucketCALENDAR500x350.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251223T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251223T193000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251201T195114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T195249Z UID:10002232-1766512800-1766518200@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: ON BREAK DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today\, but will return on January 6th. 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-3/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/wooden-bucketCALENDAR500x350.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251222T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251222T190000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251010T173109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251220T131434Z UID:10002211-1766424600-1766430000@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph & Friends: Happy Buddha\, Fat Buddha DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe large\, rotund physique\, a sack full of gifts\, and love of children characterize the archetype of Santa Claus and China’s jolly Budai (Japanese: Hotei)\, a comparison that has invited comment for decades. Well known stories feature each of these two demi-gods\, stories full of magical thinking and wonder-filled spirit. \nThe Laughing Buddha\, the Happy Buddha\, the Fat Buddha: All are names for the pot-bellied Budai (which means “Cloth Bag” 布袋)\, who was an actual Tang-era monk\, a beloved figure of artists and storytellers for a millennium. The Chan poet Kuoan Shiyuan featured Budai’s visage in his depiction of the final stage of awakening in this famous verse from his Ten Oxherding Pictures: \nBehind a brushwood gate\, alone in his hut\, even a thousand sages don’t know.\nBurying his own natural beauty\, he avoids the wagon tracks of past wisemen.\nDangling a gourd\, he enters the town; pounding his staff\, he returns home.\nVisiting wine bars and fish stalls\, these become for him the Buddha.\n\nWith chest bare and bare footed\, he enters the marketplace.\nCovered in the grit of the earth\, painted with ash\, he breaks into a great laugh.\nWithout using the mountain wizard’s secrets\,\nHe teaches the old tree and withered flowers how to bloom.\n\nI was in the third grade when my classmate Rodney came up to a couple of us kids standing around the playground. We were talking about what we wanted from Santa for Christmas and he came right out with it: “Santa Claus is stupid. There is no such thing. Your parents made it up.” Though in the same grade\, he was a little older and tougher than the rest of us. Somebody said he had a brother in jail; one morning in the fifth grade he rode his motorcycle to school. \nI was stunned and angry about his claim – my whole understanding of the holiday world was at risk. Thinking about it now\, I wasn’t afraid of losing “stuff\,” older kids\, who presumably were aware of the ruse\, still got presents. I was afraid of losing the magic and warmth of giving and receiving. \nWhen I got home\, I asked my dad about what Rodney had said\, and he had an idea: “Well\, let’s call the operator and ask her!” He picked up the beige rotary phone hanging on our kitchen wall (our number was Yellowstone 5-4545)\, got the operator on\, and said\, “My young son here heard that there is no Santa Claus. Can you please talk with him?” My father handed me the phone and the kind voice of a young lady assured me there was a Santa and he would be coming soon. I was hugely relieved that the world as I knew it was still intact. \n“Yes\, Virginia\, there is a Santa Claus\,” wrote Francis Pharcellus Church in the fall of 1897\, responding to a letter sent to The New York Sun by eight-year old Virginia O’Hanlon. “He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist\, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.” \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-73/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Budai-Hotei_500w.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251221T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251221T120000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251008T143308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251218T192146Z UID:10002202-1766313000-1766318400@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Everyone! There’s Nothing to Worry About. Try to See That! DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nUltimately\, how is it? Everyone\, there’s nothing to worry about. Try to hold it up to view. \nThere was a modern Zen teacher who would ask\, “What is it?” It felt like a kind of harassment\, but amusing. Eventually someone would say\, “It’s this! Just this!”\nAnd the teacher would say\, “Very good.”\nLater he would ask for more. He wanted to hear\, “Only just this.”\nAnd then everyone would relax until he was driven to ask for a new way to say\, “It’s all here already.” \nBut right now\, there’s nothing to worry about. The year is heading into the solstice and ‘Chrissie’ as the Australians say. \nIn the dark and silence and quiet there is nothing to worry about. \nJoin us on Sunday and let’s not worry together. \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-75/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Hyenas_Africa_TB_500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20251221T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251221T113000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251008T141526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T141526Z UID:10002192-1766309400-1766316600@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español) DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 21 de diciembre\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-2/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/EduardoFuentes_CALENDAR500x375.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251216T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251216T193000 DTSTAMP:20260424T162712 CREATED:20251201T195116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T195241Z UID:10002231-1765908000-1765913400@www.pacificzen.org SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: ON BREAK DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today\, but will return on January 6th. 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-4/ LOCATION:PZI Online Temple CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/wooden-bucketCALENDAR500x350.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR