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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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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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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251214T113000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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:20260424T195356
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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
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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:20260424T195356
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251125T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T195356
CREATED:20251008T134827Z
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Luopu Near the End
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen Luopu was near death\, he taught his gathering\,\n“Today I have something to ask you about:\nIf you think\, ‘This is it\,’ then you’re putting a head on top of your head.\nIf you think\, ‘This isn’t it\,’ then you’re looking for life by cutting off your head.”\nThe head student said\, “The green mountain is always moving its feet;\nyou don’t carry a lantern in broad daylight.”\nLuopu said\, “Is this a time to be making speeches?” \n—Book of Serenity Case 41 \n\nA senior student named Yancong stepped out and said to Luopu\,\n“We need to leave these two paths that you talk about\,\nplease don’t ask about them.”\nLuopu said\, “You’re not there yet. Try again.”\nYancong said\, “I can’t say it completely.”\nLuopu said\, “I don’t care whether what you say is complete or not.”\nYancong said\, “I’m not a student who can answer you.” \nWhen evening came\, Luopu called for Yancong and said\, “The reply you gave today was actually rooted in something. Try to embody what our late teacher said\, \nIn front of your eyes\, there are no things\, \nyour thoughts are in front of your eyes\,\nthere’s something else that’s not the things in front of your eyes\,\nit’s not something you can reach with ears or eyes. \nLuopu asked\, “Which phrase is the guest? Which phrase is the host? If you can sort that out\, I’ll pass on the bowl and robe to you.”\nYancong said\, “I can’t.”\nLuopu said\, “You can.”\nYancong said\, “Honestly\, I can’t.”\nLuopu roared and said\, “What a shame! What a shame!”\nA student asked\, “What do you mean?”\nLuopu\, said\, “You don’t row the boat of compassion over smooth waters\, but in a steep gorge there’s no point in releasing the wooden goose.” \n\nWhat struck me first about this koan was the comment from the head monk about the green mountains. And I found myself remembering another head monk. \nBaizhang was looking for an abbot for a new temple and it came down to the head monk and the cook\, Guishan. Baizhang put 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\, “It cannot be called a wooden shoe.” Guishan kicked the water jug over and left\, and he was awarded the abbotship of the new temple. Head monks\, what we call Head of Practice in our retreats\, are often depicted as somewhat rigid and slow—makes you wonder how they got to be a head monk. The comment of the head monk in this case with Luopu reminds me of the ‘wooden shoe’ comment by the other head monk with Baizhang. In this case\, Yancong is in a similar position to Guishan and the water jug\, however he cannot “kick the jug over.” Head monks are often portrayed this way. Longtime practitioners who have risen to a position of authority but who still haven’t got it. \nLuopu was Linji’s attendant for twenty years\, a position even more highly regarded than head monk\, yet he never “got it” with Linji. So he knew very well what it was like to be close but not quite there. In addition to his desire for a dharma heir before he died\, there was the way he must have sympathized with Yancong\, who was close but not quite there. \nLuopu makes a great effort trying to help Yancong\, which brought to mind something that Guishan said about helping when asked by a student to explain something. He said\, “If I explained it to you\, later on you’d revile me. What I say is mine\, and has nothing to do with you.” Which brought along another old teacher\, Bukko\, who replied to the question\, “What is Zen?” by saying\, “Zen is the heart of the one who asks. You cannot get it from another’s words.” \nYou should probably stop reading this now\, but there was one last thing\, the death of the Buddha. We are told that his instruction on his death bed was: \nI was only able to point the way for you.\nBe a lamp unto yourself\, be a refuge to yourself.\nTake yourself to no external refuge. \nSounds more “Zen” than Luopu\, echoing Bukko’s “You can’t get it from someone else’s words.” \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-65/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Monday Zen is ON BREAK for Pacific Zen Luminaries\, but will return on December 1st. 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-77/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251124T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251124T183000
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SUMMARY:PACIFIC ZEN LUMINARIES: Lotus Girl — Jon Joseph in Conversation with Helen Tworkov\, founding editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nHelen Tworkov joins host Jon Joseph to discuss her editorial work and writing including her most recent book\, Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America. \nTworkov is the founding editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review\, the first independent Buddhist magazine; and the author of Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers; and co-author\, with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche\, of In Love with the World: A Monks’s Journey through the Bardos of Living and Dying. \nShe first encountered Buddhism in Japan and Nepal during the 1960s\, and has studied in both the Zen and Tibetan traditions. She began studying with Mingyur Rinpoche in 2006 and currently divides most of her time between New York and Nova Scotia. Her new book\, published in April 2024\, is Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America. \nAn excerpt of her new book is available online at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. \nSource: helentworkov.com \n“My favorite parts of this very American and far-ranging story chart Helen Tworkov’s deeply personal discovery of the vast\, boundless dimensions of mind. As she recognizes mind itself as the source of suffering and the key to liberation\, we are treated to a forthright account of an absorbing journey filled with honesty\, humor\, and wisdom.” \n—Pema Chödrön  \n“With Tricycle magazine\, Helen Tworkov had the vision to create a forum for dialogue about Buddhism in the West. Lotus Girl provides an inside look at how her art world background and the political issues of those days prompted her personal search for wisdom and spiritual development. This rich and unique memoir has value for any reader interested in the possibilities of positive change.” \n—Philip Glass \n\n \nJon Joseph Roshi of San Mateo Zen and PZI created this series to support the hardworking innovators and shining voices of modern Zen: scholars\, writers\, poets\, translators\, activists\, artists\, teachers\, and more. \nAll proceeds for each event\, including teacher dana\, go directly to the guest speaker. Event attendees are encouraged to give as generously as you are able\, so we can offer deep thanks to Luminaries guests. \nOur suggested donation is $10 for PZI Members and $12 for Non-Members\, but the scale slides from zero depending on one’s ability to contribute. We also greatly appreciate Patrons\, who help support the program with larger gifts of $25—$250.
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/luminaries-helen-tworkov-nov25/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251123T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251123T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: The Most Wonderful Thing in the World
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Baizhang: What’s the most wonderful thing in the world?\nBaizhang answered: Sitting alone on Great Courage peak.\nThe student bowed\, and immediately\, Baizhang hit him. \nIt’s a glorious thing to have companions on the Way. It’s also one of the great gifts of practice to learn to enjoy one’s own company with the same curiosity and care as one might a dear friend. \nWho is this one with whom I seem to spend so much time? Whose worries wake me in the night\, and whose heart beats fast or slow in my chest? \nIn Zen\, to befriend this One is to befriend the whole universe. \nJoin us Sunday for meditation\, music of the spheres\, and stories of entering that Great Room of one’s own. \n—Tess Beasley \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-80/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251123T113000
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 23 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-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251122T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251122T100000
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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 November 22nd here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-31/
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:20251118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Yunmen’s Cleverer Thief – Book of Serenity Case 40
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunmen asked Jianfeng\, “May I have your answer?”\nJianfeng said\, “Have you even arrived here yet?\nYunmen said\, “In that case I’m late.”\n“Is that so. Is that so?” said Jianfeng.\nYunmen said\, “You are a cleverer thief than I am.” \nSeveral people have told me that their first reaction to this koan was\, “Huh?” Though koans often don’t make sense\, this one seems to make even less sense than the usual not making sense. \nThe conversation between Yunmen and Jianfeng appears to be modeled after a conversation that took place between the Greek King Milinda and the Buddhist teacher Nagasena around 150 BC almost 300 years after the Buddha died\, and a thousand years before Yunmen was born – an encounter between Hellenistic and Buddhist thinking. Reminds me of touring the Buddhist collection in a museum in Lahore\, Pakistan. There were many life-size statues of bodhisattvas wearing Greek robes. \nThe conversation between Milinda and Nagasena is one of many included in the text The Questions of King Milinda\, and it goes like this: \nThe king said\, “I’m going to pose a question. Can you answer?”\nNagasena said\, “Please ask your question.”\nThe king said\, “I’ve already asked.”\nNagasena responded\, “I’ve already answered.”\nThen the king said\, “What did you answer?”\nNagasena countered\, “What did you ask?”\nThe king said\, “I’ve asked nothing.”\nNagasena replied\, “I’ve answered nothing.” \nAs you can see this ‘not making sense’ has been going on for a long time\, though the conversation between Yunmen and Jianfeng seems to make less sense than the conversation between Nagasena and King Milinda. Progress? \nHave you arrived here yet? \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-66/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251117T190000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: “You Can’t Call It a Shoe” and Other Spectacular Fails
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nEarly last week\, in the predawn darkness\, I awoke from deep sleep repeating the fragment of a koan. I don’t know if it was part of a dream or just a memory that fell off the sleep train. But the fragment was so vivid that it made me laugh as I got up. \nYou can’t call it a shoe. \nThat was how the head monk responded. It is considered one of the great bonehead responses to a teacher’s mondo\, or dharma question\, in all of koan literature. \nYou know the story well: \nMaster Baizhang was looking for someone to establish a temple\, so he set up a contest to find his most worthy student. He placed a bottle in front of the assembly and said\, “Don’t call this a water bottle. What will you call it?” The head monk\, who was a bit inflated with self-importance\, answered\, ”You can’t call it a shoe.” \nA truly cringe-worthy response. Yet even that answer had a bit of dull light in it. No\, a bottle is not a shoe. It is just a bottle. \nThen the cook\, Guishan\, came forward and showed the bottle’s bottle-ness by kicking it over and walking out. He won the contest and went on to found\, together with his protégé Yangshan\, the first of the five great schools of Tang era Chan/Zen. \nWho knows what became of the head monk. Maybe he constructed higher walls by blaming his teacher\, his community\, or the teachings. \nOne time in a group gathering I was asked to give a spontaneous five-minute presentation on a koan: Master Ma’s Sun-faced Buddha\, Moon-faced Buddha. My first reaction was shock: I thought I was too senior to be called upon and had been looking forward to giving others a chance to talk. Then I felt relief. I had written about the koan a few weeks ago and thought I could use that. \nIn my presentation I mostly repeated the points I had written in my note but it didn’t seem to be going well. So I asked if I could relate a dream I had had the night before. In that dream I walked into a large forest service cabin deep in an old-growth forest. Turning left from the entry room\, I went through a doorway into a bedroom\, where John Tarrant was in bed. I asked if there was anything I could do for him. He said\, “No\, I’m fine. Thank you.” With that\, I walked out of the house. \nThe dream\, of course\, was the presentation. But I felt embarrassed and ashamed as a senior teacher on how I had started out. I felt I had failed. \nPerhaps that was why I was laughing when I awoke the other morning with that koan fragment in my mind. The bone-headed response was actually funny: You can’t call it a shoe. It was a perfect response in its own way – a true reflection of the head monk’s mind in that moment. A miracle\, really. \nWe feel the way we do\, and then keep going\, climbing the hundred foot pole just so we can jump off again. It’s the climbing\, not the falling that matters. \n”Let’s talk recklessly\,” the poet William Stafford would say\, ”I need to be willingly fallible to deserve a place in realm where miracles happen.” \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-78/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Jesse Cardin & Friends: The Mountains Are/Not Mountains
DESCRIPTION:Enlightenment is a slippery thief. It sneaks up when we’re not looking and *WHAM!* we’ve lost everything. But after a time\, it’s just like the old joke about playing a country song backward: except instead of getting your lover and your dog and your truck back\, you get your bad habits and your neuroses and your beef with your coworker back. Dogen describes it like this: \nBefore one studies Zen\, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen\, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment\, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters. \nI don’t know about you\, but I came to Zen to get enlightened for good. I don’t want the mountains to go back to being mountains and the waters to go back to being waters. But if this is the case\, how do we proceed? \nJoin me. We’ll sit together and explore the great matter with music and joy and great silence. \n—Jesse Cardin \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-jesse-cardin-friends-81/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20251116T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251116T113000
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 16 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-9/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: How Will You Meet Today?
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-57/
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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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Silence in the Midst of Roaring Life
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSomeone asked\, “What is ‘being silent while speaking’?”\nYunmen said\, “A clear opportunity just slipped through your fingers!” \nWhen I found this exchange about being silent while speaking\, I was reminded of another exchange in which Baizhang asked “How would you say something without moving your lips?” Baizhang was Huangbo’s teacher\, Huangbo was Muzhou’s teacher and Muzhou was Yunmen’s teacher. \nFeeling the flow of this phrase about being silent while speaking as it moved through one hundred years and three generations of Zen teachers increased my sense of intimacy with being silent while speaking. \nI was reminded of trekking in the Himalayas while reciting a mantra\, getting lost in the infinite stone steps and the equally infinite number of mantras recited while being silent. When I stopped to rest\, having forgotten where I was\, seeing the towering peaks all around me\, I saw without using my eyes\, I heard without using my ears\, I smelled without using my nose. I was transported without using my body. I knew the mountains without using my mind\, and my tongue fell out completely. \nThere was another experience that came to mind\, also in the Himalayas. While on a pilgrimage to a cave sacred to the Hindu god Shiva\, along the way I met and spent some time with a devotee of Shiva. We sat on a little island at a point where two rivers joined each other and the sound of those rivers was so loud I could not hear my own voice. \nTo speak but not hear your own voice is an unusual experience\, as is finding silence in the roar of two rivers\, or in the midst of a roaring life. \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-67/
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:20251110T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251110T190000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Just Going Is Enough: The Answers Will Be There
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nElder Ting asks LInji a question. Linji comes off his seat and shoves the old man. Elder stands frozen\, and a monk standing nearby asks\, “Elder Ting\, why don’t you bow?” He bows. \nA traveling nun stopped by Juzhi’s temple. She walked around him three times while he was sitting\, and said\, “If you can say a word that satisfies me\, I will take off my hat and stay.” He could not\, so she left. \nActs of creativity and spontaneity have long been greatly valued by Chan–Zen masters in countless encounters over many many centuries. The universe is too large to say these qualities are required for awakening–afterall\, clouds also drift in the sky with a creative ease and Mocha the dog often barks with noisy spontaneity. But moving before thought in our own floating world somehow makes us more porous to the light that shines through all things. A touch of life less scripted\, before attaching to names like good or evil\, enlightened or deluded\, nice clouds and bad dog\, somehow affirms the freshness we already know surrounds us. \nThe dream world can offer us access to the space where the universe is still fluid. When in the dream world\, as a friend recently suggested\, we aren’t given an option to check ourselves; we experience ourselves just as we are. \nDokusan (J. honorable going alone)\, where we meet a teacher one-on-one\, can be a chance to enter the life of a koan without checking ourselves. A remembrance of dream–dokusans past came to me recently. \nIn a dream from several months ago\, I was sitting with a few others in the dokusan line at the SanUn Zendo\, in Kamakura\, waiting to see Koun Yamada\, something I had done hundreds of times. A woman before me rang the bell and went in. I moved up to the front\, and asked myself\, “What answer should I give?’ As I asked the question\, I opened my arms out wide and felt a deep sense of emptiness and light spread out in front of me. Then I thought\, “No\, don’t give that answer. Go\, and when you get there\, you will know.” \nIn the second dream\, which I remember vividly from a couple of years ago\, a group of about forty of us were sitting in a large dining hall\, kind of like the one in Harry Potter’s Hogwarts School of Witchcraft. We were in sesshin\, silently eating\, and I kind of furtively looked left and right and thought\, “If I told them how very simple it is\, they would never believe me.” Then\, to the left\, Taizan Maezumi\, whose sesshin I joined as a young man\, walked perpendicular to the dining room and went down a short hall to his dokusan room. I was scheduled to go to see him and thought\, “What should I say?” Answering myself\, I realized I didn’t have to say anything. That just the going is the answer. \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-79/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251110T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260102T070000
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SUMMARY:OPEN TEMPLE: 8-Week End of Year Meditation Pass: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:ON BREAK. Winter Open Temple begins January 12th. 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\,\nNovember 10th–January 2nd\, 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/eoy-ot-nov10-jan2-2026/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Open Temple
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