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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260106T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260105T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260104T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260104T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251230T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251230T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
CREATED:20251201T195109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T120536Z
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251229T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251229T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251228T103000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20251228T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251228T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
CREATED:20251008T141412Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251228T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251228T100000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
CREATED:20251221T193905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T162402Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251225T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251225T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251223T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251223T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
CREATED:20251201T195114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T195249Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251222T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251222T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
CREATED:20251010T173109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251220T131434Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251221T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251221T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
CREATED:20251008T143308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251218T192146Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20251221T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251221T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
CREATED:20251008T141526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T141526Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251216T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182319
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251215T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251215T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: In Disaster Relief\, Every Day Is a Good Day with Special Guests Ewen Arnold & Claudia Gassner with a field report from Sri Lanka
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nTwo weeks ago\, cyclone Ditwah formed in the northern Indian Ocean and rolled up the east coast of Sri Lanka\, slamming that country with its most destructive storm in a century. The storm brought 29.5 inches of rain in just a few days\, in some areas. The result was widespread flooding and mudslides that killed or sent missing over 800 people\, and caused an estimated $6 billion in damage. \nYunmen said\, “I’m not asking you about before the storm.\nCome and say a word or  two about after the storm.”  \nAnd he himself replied\, “Every day is a good day.” \n\nHardest hit was the district of Kandy\, where Pacific Zen members Ewen Arnold and his partner Claudia Gassner live and work for the Training\, Empowerment\,  Awareness (TEA) Project\, which brings aid to children of tea plantation workers\, the poorest of the poor in Sri Lanka. Ewen and Claudia also practice and teach at the nearby Nalambe Buddhist Meditation Center. \nEwen recently sent a field note to PZI Talk\, which I’m sharing here: \nEvery day is a good day. Absolutely shattered. Overwhelmed. Empty. \nFive days of collecting funds\, buying food stuffs\, receiving clothes\, receiving blankets\, sorting\, packing\, arranging transport\, traveling through places where the roads are totally broken and there are landslides every 200 meters. \nEvery day is a good day. Every day is a good day. \nReceiving deliveries in the middle of the night. Sleeping three hours and then getting up and starting again the next day. I’m 73 years old for God’s sake. \nIn the area near where I live\, there are eleven schools which are full of people sheltering who have lost their homes\, lost everything. And the sun is shining. And the birds are singing. And still this countryside is immensely beautiful\, although scarred in places. \nEvery day is a good day. \nPeople are so grateful\, so incredibly grateful\, it makes me cry. And crying is part of the good day. So much suffering alongside so much beauty. Still the kids play amongst the ruins of their house\, and smile and laugh. They ask us our name\, they ask us where we’re from. They’re amazed that I’m 73 years old. Their smiles go right through me and out the other side into the day. \nYesterday afternoon at home someone came to my door\, holding the hand of a small boy\, about five I’d guess. He started telling me a story in the Sinhala language about losing everything. I was so tired and empty I just wanted him to go away. But I did manage to put together a bag of food for him. \nI dream at night of green hills and landslides\, faces smiling and sad\, hands giving and receiving\, and the beautiful heartful people I’m working with. I have met and gotten to better know so many wonderful people in the last week. And it’s beautiful\, doing it with my partner\, even if we get frustrated with each other at times. \nThis too. This too. This too is a good day. \n—Ewen Arnold \n****************** \nFurther notes from Ewen about the TEA Project: \nWe are working through a charity called the TEA Project\, which Claudia\, my partner\, works for.  It is based not far from Kandy\, Sri Lanka\, on the other side of the hill from Nilambe\, the place where I teach meditation. I have been involved with The TEA Project as a sponsor for years too. \nNormally they are concerned with training and educating the children of the workers from the nearby tea estates.  These communities are very poor and are critically in need as a result of the cyclone. These families rely on daily wages\, plucking tea barefoot on steep mountains\, in both rain and scorching sun. Their living conditions were already harsh; now\, many of their line houses and surrounding areas have been severely damaged or completely destroyed. Claudia and I and others on behalf of The TEA Project are currently distributing dry rations and will assess further needs. \nLink to the TEA Project website: https://theteaproject.org/ \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-74/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251214T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251214T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251008T143318Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Michelle Riddle & Friends: Have Confidence in the Light That Is Always Working Inside You
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhatever confronts you\, don’t believe it.\nWhen something appears shine your light on it.\nHave confidence in the light that is always working inside you. \n—Record of Linji \nIt can be very seductive to convince ourselves that we need something we don’t have—that something about our circumstances\, or our person\, could use a bit of improvement. \nThe funny thing is\, in any moment we can’t have what we don’t have or be something other than what we are. \nZen practice calls us to become interested in what is apparent in any moment if we’re not rejecting it. Koans turn us towards our mysterious connection to all things\, and also our own unique way of appearing in the world. The way in is our own way of seeing and perceiving\, our own inner light. \nLinji is instructing us to have some suspicion about the things we think are not ok (how do we know?)\, and to notice how each of us already has the light we long for. \nJoin us this Sunday for meditation\, music\, and stories of our own light. I’ll share some stories from the transmission ceremony this past weekend in which I gave up a lock of hair and gained a new rakusu\, a new Zen name\, blessings of a community and Zen ancestors\, and still nothing was given and nothing taken away. \n—Michelle Riddle\, 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-michelle-riddle-friends-77/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20251214T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251214T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251008T141636Z
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 14 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-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251213T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251213T100000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251008T135235Z
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for December 13th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-with-david-weinstein/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251211T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251024T161646Z
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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-56/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Parks Roshi":MAILTO:dparksbluegrasszen@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251209T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251209T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251008T134730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251204T230127Z
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Yantou’s Arising and Disappearing
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nLuoshan asked Yantou\, “What about when arising and disappearing don’t stop?”\nYantou yelled\, “Who arises and disappears?” \n—Book of Serenity Case 43 \nWhen Yantou and Xuefeng were snowbound in a cabin on Turtle Mountain\, Xuefeng spent every waking moment meditating while Yantou dozed. Xuefeng became upset with Yantou because he wasn’t meditating\, which led to a conversation about Xuefeng’s practice. In the end Yantou shouted at Xuefeng\, “Don’t you know that the family treasure does not come in through the front gate?” This was the spark that set off Yantou’s awakening. \nThat story paid a visit as I spent time with Yantou’s koan about arising and disappearing. I could feel a resonance between the two. It would be easy to answer Yantou’s question about who arises and disappears by saying\, “Me.” That would be the answer coming in through the front gate. Just as Xuefeng’s assumption that meditating every moment he was awake was the answer to awakening. \nThen another koan came along: “Who is hearing?” \nOn the first night of Fall Sesshin at Mount Madonna sat with that koan as the rain came thundering down. Though the roof did not leak many people were drenched. Again\, I can feel the resonance with Yantou’s question. It’s the same “who.” \nThen there was the question about when arising and disappearing don’t stop. Which brings up the question of when arising and disappearing do stop. What’s that like? Who experiences that? \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-63/
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:20251208T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251208T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251010T173227Z
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Kathmandu
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nHelen Tworkov\, in her recent book\, Lotus Girl\, recounts how she spent some months in Kathmandu and Pokhara\, Nepal in the mid-1960s. She found herself among Tibetan refugees who had made a perilous journey across the Himalayas to escape the Chinese invasion of their homeland. Less than half had survived the journey. What impressed Helen most about the refugees was their ability to experience joy even in the midst of their suffering. They were able to see the light inside the dark. \nYunmen taught\, “Everybody has a light inside. Sometimes it’s dark\, dark\, hidden and hard to see. What is this light?” \n“What is that light?”\, asked Yunmen.\nHe answered himself\, “Kitchen pantry and temple gate.”\n\nTwenty years after Helen’s travels I found myself in Kathmandu\, also experiencing that light\, as a blessing from the Hindu goddess of fortune. \nIn the mid 80s I was hired by a large publisher of books and magazines to return to Japan\, where I had lived for four years as a correspondent covering business news for magazines like International Plastics and BusinessWeek. Expected in Tokyo on the first of November\, I decided to take three weeks beforehand to trek in Nepal. \nKathmandu was a densely packed\, low-rise city built of brick and mud an painted in earth tones. It was also exceedingly poor. I was a little ashamed of my revulsion at the poverty: streets lined with garbage\, town squares littered with human waste and the occasional dead animal. It was a relief for me to escape the misery of the city for a climb into the grand purity of the Himalayas. \nIn the trekking permit office\, I was lucky to join up with a small group from Seattle to hike the backside of the Annapurna range\, a range of imposing peaks five miles high. In the first ten days we made good time\, but after crossing the 5\,000-meter Thorong-La Pass\, I realized that if I were to make my October 28 airplane departure to Tokyo via Bangkok—the beginning of my new career and life—I would have to go ahead alone. \nFearful of losing my job if I were late\, I hiked for the three days from pre-dawn dark to sunset\, covering much of the hundred miles from Muktinath to Pokhara in flip flops to allow my boot-shod feet to heal. \nOn the morning of the fourth day\, I entered the dusty bus station at Pokhara\, ready to jump on a bus for the six-hour ride to Kathmandu. Nothing. No buses. No attendants. Someone said the bus station was closed for an extended holiday. \nExhausted\, discouraged\, and now sure I would be late for my job\, I threw my pack on the front steps of the station and sat down. A few minutes later a young man with a cheap Indian-made camera approached and asked if I would fix it for him. Its shutter was stuck\, which I easily unjammed. Handing it back to him I asked\, “Now\, can you find me a ride to Kathmandu?” A half hour later\, I was favored to be bumping eastward along the Prithvi Highway in a beat-up Toyota Celica\, with three Brahmins squished in the back and me sharing the front with a young driver pining for his girlfriend in Kathmandu. We were mostly silent during the long drive and arrived on the outskirts of Kathmandu in the dark. \nEntering the city\, all electric street and house lights were extinguished\, but every window was glowing with the warm light of oil lamps. It was the first night of the Hindu Festival of Light\, Diwali\, which honors Lakshmi\, the mother of the universe and goddess of good fortune. This festival celebrates the victory of light over dark. The flickering oil lamps helped me find my way back from the third to the first world of schedules\, jobs\, and industry. Yet it’s still important for me to ask: “What is that light?” \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-75/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251207T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251008T143329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T122841Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Zen is ON BREAK\, but will return on December 14th. We hope you join us then! \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-78/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20251207T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251207T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251008T141734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T141734Z
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 7 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-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251202T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251008T134759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T123925Z
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Nanyang's Water Jug
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked National Teacher Zhong of Nanyang\,\n“What is the original body of Vairochana Buddha like?”\nThe National Teacher said\, “Pass me that water jug.”\nThe student picked up the water jug and brought it to him.\nThe National Teacher said\, “Put it back where it was.”\nThe student asked again\, “But what is the original body of Vairochana Buddha like?”\n“That old Buddha is long gone\,” said the National teacher. \nAnother koan involving a water jug comes to mind. Case forty of the Gateless Barrier involves Baizhang\, who set up a test to see who the abbot of a new temple would be. Guishan and the Head Monk were the finalists. Baizhang placed a water jug on the ground and asked each of them to say what it was without calling it a water jug. The Head Monk said\, “You cannot call it a wooden shoe.” Guishan kickedthe jug over and left and he was given the abbotship. \nHere the National Teacher is like Guishan\, he demonstrates what the original body of Vairochana is like the way Guishan demonstrated what a water jug is. In a way that has nothing to do with the water jug\, the National Teacher could have asked the student to pass him a book\, as Yamada Roshi asked me. Gormlessly\, I turned towards the bookshelf behind me and reached for the book he asked for. Before my hand reached the book\, I bumped into Vairochana Buddha and broke out laughing\, as did Yamada. \nBumped into Vairochana lately? \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-64/
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:20251201T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251201T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251010T173253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251129T005424Z
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is not teaching today\, but will return on December 8th. 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-76/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251130T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251130T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251008T143345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251128T202512Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: Peace Is Here Now
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe trees and animals turn inwards\, we turn inwards\, to warmth and quiet and company. \nThe maple\, apricot\, persimmon\, sigh and gradually shed their leaves in many shades of yellow and green. \nWe don’t have to decorate the inner life. Simple is good\, simple is the greatest richness. \nJoin us! \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-john-tarrant-friends-79/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20251130T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251130T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
CREATED:20251008T141845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T141845Z
UID:10002189-1764495000-1764502200@www.pacificzen.org
SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 30 de noviembre\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-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251127T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T182320
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David is not teaching today\, but will return on December 11th. 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-5/
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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