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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251111T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
CREATED:20251008T134931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251107T134458Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
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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
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
CREATED:20251107T135117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T132759Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251109T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251109T120000
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: What Is Buddha? Don't Keep Hunting Around
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA friend of mine got a buddha tattoo a few years ago from the best artist money could buy. He considered it a reminder to be at peace\, something he’d heard about. \nSince then he’s moved around the world half a dozen times or so\, in search of a place without racism\, without war\, without anything too old or too new or that reminds him of anything that hurts. \nIn an old case of The Gateless Gate collection\, a student asks Great Ancestor Ma\, one of the foundational Chan teachers\, What is Buddha? Ma simply replies\, This very heart–mind is Buddha. Gateless–Gate then offers a verse: \nOn a bright day under a blue sky don’t keep hunting around.\nIf you ask “What is Buddha?”\nit’s like declaring your innocence while clutching stolen goods. \nWhat does it mean that we have “it” already? Why do we still suffer if we do? \nJoin us Sunday for meditation\, stories\, companions\, and the best temple musicians around. \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-82/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20251109T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251109T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 9 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-7/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251108T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251108T100000
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
CREATED:20251008T135335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T115657Z
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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 8th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-32/
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:20251103T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251103T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
CREATED:20251010T173628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T190119Z
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: Timmy Falls Into the Well
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhat are you trying to say\, Lassie? Timmy fell into the well?\n\n —Mr. Martin\, Timmy’s stepfather in the TV show\, Lassie \n  \nWhat is the way?\nThe clearly enlightened person falls into a well. \n—Second of Baling Haojian’s Three Barriers\, PZI MK Case 74 \n  \nSomething or someone always seems to be falling into a well. \nAnd then there is the koan where Caoshan is talking to Elder De\, coming in from a high altitude and poetic. The Elder is a little more barnyard: \n“The Buddha’s true reality body is like space\, its form is a manifest response to beings\, like the moon in the water. How would you respond?”\nElder De said\, “It’s like a donkey looking in a well.”\nCaoshan said\, “That was really good\, but you said only eighty percent.”\nDe said\, “Well\, what about you teacher?”\n“It’s like the well looking at the donkey.” \nIt has been a tough several months in our household with the decline and finally the passing of both Nonno and Nonni.  A couple of nights after the last memorial\, Lynne and I were brushing our teeth and a strange request came out of me. I’m not even sure why I asked it; perhaps to bring a small bit of levity back into our lives. \nI asked her\, “What was that thing you said about Lassie?” She said\, “What? You mean a long time ago?” I said\, “Ya\, the thing about Lassie; you knew something. Something was said.” I couldn’t even recall the particulars but somewhere in my psyche it was important to me. \nShe said: ”What? You must mean when Lassie goes to the father\, who asks: ’Lassie\, what are you trying to say? Did Timmy fall into the well?’” \nI absolutely lost it\, burst out laughing and couldn’t stop until tears came to my eyes. It felt good to laugh again. \nIn the nineteen seasons the series ran on TV\, in nearly 600 episodes\, and with nine Lassies\, Timmy never once fell into a well. Perhaps he left it for us to do. \nWe fall into the well. Then the well falls into us. The donkey is looking down\, and at the same time the well is looking up. Relationships matter. A friend who was soon moving to Texas once said\, “I am getting ready for San Antonio\,” adding\, “And San Antonio is getting ready for me.” \nIndeed. \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-80/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
CREATED:20251008T143419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T122715Z
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with John Tarrant & Friends: On Life Being Upside Down
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOn Being Upside Down \n“Why are we upside down\, Daddy?”\n“Isn’t that like asking\, ‘Are we there yet?’”\n“Well\, are we there yet?” \nAlways\, we’re always here.\nWhy is October yellow and blue?\nWhy do we never believe even our own explanations? \nA student asked Yunmen\,\n“But when it’s not the things I can see\, and it’s not what they’re doing\, what is it?”\nYunmen said\, “Say something upside down.”\n(Blue Cliff Record\, Case 15) \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-83/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Santiago:20251102T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Santiago:20251102T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
CREATED:20251008T142222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T142222Z
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 2 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-8/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
CREATED:20250813T171303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T153658Z
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SUMMARY:THURSDAY ZEN with David Parks: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Parks is not teaching today\, but will return on November 13th. 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-51/
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:20251028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
CREATED:20250818T154319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T153727Z
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Linji’s True Person
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nLinji taught the gathering\, “There is a true person of no rank who is always coming\nand going through the portals of your face. Those of you with beginner’s mind who\nhave still not verified this\, look\, look.”\nA student asked\, “What is the true person of no rank like?”\nLinji came down from the teacher’s seat and grabbed him.\nThe student hesitated.\nLinji released him and said\, “What a dried-up piece of shit this true person of no rank is.” \nThe first thing to come along as I started spending time with this koan was Linji’s enlightenment story\, Case 86 in Equanimity\, which goes like this: \nThe Head Monk asked Linji\, “How long have you been practicing here?” \nLinji said\, “Three years.” \nThe Head Monk said\, “Have you gone for an interview with the master or not?” \nLinji said\, “I haven’t done so. I don’t know what to ask him.” \nThe Head Monk said\, “Why not ask him\, ‘What is the essential meaning of Buddhism?’” \nSo Linji went to see Huangbo\, but before he could finish his question Huangbo struck him. \nLinji went out\, and the Head Monk asked him\, “What happened when you asked him?” \nLinji said\, “Before I could get the words out he hit me. I don’t understand.” \nThe Head Monk said\, “Go ask him again.” \nSo Linji asked Huangbo again\, and Huangbo once again hit him. Linji asked a third time\, and Huangbo hit him again. \nLinji revealed this to the Head Monk\, saying\, “Before you urged me to ask about the Dharma\, but all I got was a beating. Because of evil karmic hindrances I’m not able to comprehend the essential mystery. So\, today I’m going to leave here.” \nThe Head Monk said\, “If you’re going to leave\, you must say goodbye to the master.” \nThe next day when Linji came to say goodbye to Huangbo\, Huangbo said\, “You don’t need to go somewhere else. Just go over to the Gao’an Monastery and practice with Dayu. He’ll explain it to you.” \nWhen Linji reached Dayu\, Dayu said\, “Where have you come from?” \nLinji said\, “From Huangbo.” \nDayu said\, “What did Huangbo say?” \nLinji said\, “Three times I asked him about the essential doctrine and three times I got hit. I don’t know if I made some error or not.” \nDayu said\, “Huangbo has old grandmotherly affection and endures all this difficulty for your sake—and here you are asking whether you’ve made some error or not!” \nUpon hearing these words Linji was awakened. \nIt is easy to assume that Linji’s reference to the “true person of no rank” pertains to the tendency of individuals to elevate themselves above others\, holding an exaggerated view of their own understanding. But\, given Linji’s enlightenment story\, I’m inclined to believe that he was also talking about those who thought less of themselves\, as he did with Huangbo and as the monk in the koan did with Linji. \nMaybe as you do too? \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-54/
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:20251027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251027T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T211904
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SUMMARY:PACIFIC ZEN LUMINARIES: Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir – Jon Joseph in Conversation with Author David Chadwick
DESCRIPTION:David Chadwick\, author\, activist\, musician\, and Zen priest\, joins host Jon Joseph for remembrances about the early days of San Francisco Zen Center and the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. \nDavid began his study of Zen in 1966 under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi who ordained him as a priest in 1971\, shortly before Suzuki’s death. Later\, Chadwick continued to study with Zentatsu Baker Roshi and assisted in the operation of the San Francisco Zen Center for a number of years. Throughout this time\, he helped SFZC develop its centers and businesses\, including Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. \nHe is widely known as the primary archivist and biographer of Shunryu Suzuki\, with his Crooked Cucumber (1999)\, Zen is Right Here (2007)\, and Zen is Right Now (2021). Now\, Chadwick has begun to publish a three part series of anecdotes and recollections of the founding of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center\, called Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir\, of the first Zen monastery in the United States. \nIn addition to writing books\, David created maintains three websites\, Cuke.com (“an archival site on the life and world of Shunryu Suzuki and those who knew him”); ZMBM (a site dedicated to his book Zen Mind\, Beginner’s Mind); and Shunryusuzuki.com (a comprehensive archive of Shunryu Suzuki’s talks\, video\, photos\, and more). All these archives are free to the public. “I like to preserve things\,” he notes. \nSource: Cuke.com\, SFZC.com \n“Tassajara Stories is a marvelous and entertaining book and David Chadwick is a tremendous storyteller. We have here a record of his lifelong passion to record the arrival of Zen in California. I opened the book to check it out\, sat down at the kitchen table and there went my afternoon\, reading and reading. The best thing\, though\, is that these stories touch on the core of practice\, and the reason you might want to turn your heart toward the great matter. David encourages us to Zen practice in a subtle and amusing way. I’m giving it as a gift and reading it again myself.” \n—John Tarrant\, Director of The Pacific Zen Institute and author of Bring Me the Rhinoceros and Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life.  \nFrom the preface to Tassajara Stories:  \n“Shakkei is the outlying mountains and trees and whatever else one can see from a garden. If we look at what happened at Tassajara as being the garden of the book\, then the other content is the shakkei. This borrowed scenery sets Tassajara and our experience in that valley in a broad context that gives background and color to who we were and how we got there\, and includes the mountains\, the woods\, the road\, our neighbors\, the city\, the times\, the war\, the counterculture\, what was happening all around us.” \n—David Chadwick \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-tassajara-days-david-chadwick/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:MONDAY ZEN with Jon Joseph: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:Jon Joseph is on break for Pacific Zen Luminaries. Join us again on November 3rd!\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-69/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Tess Beasley & Friends: Finding a True Place\, a True Word\, a True Life.
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nGreat Linji said\,\n“Wherever you are\, just take the role of host\,\nand that place will be a true place.” \nAnd yet\, it’s not so easy sometimes. Saying\, even knowing\, what’s true can be hard. Hearing what’s true can be hard\, too\, though somehow a relief to the part of us that sides with awakening. \nMeditation clears space inside so the full splendor of reality can appear without all our adornments and disguises and objections. We learn to recognize it and its thusness\, it becomes an ally in the end. \nJoin us this Sunday for tales from our Great Fall Sesshin and for companionship and music in the ancient hall. \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-john-tarrant-friends-64/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:DOMINGO ZEN con Eduardo Fuentes (En español)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRARSE\n\nDomingo 26 de octubre\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-meditacion-con-eduardo-fuentes-en-espanol-12/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for October 25th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-22/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Guishan’s No Foundation
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nGuishan asked Yangshan\, “Suppose that out of the blue\, someone asks you\,\n‘All sentient beings only have disorderly consciousness\, boundless and with no foundation to rely on.’\nHow would you conduct an inquiry into this?”\nYangshan said\, “If a student like that came\, I’d call\,\n‘Hey so and so!’ When the student turns her head\, then I’d say\, ‘What is it?’\nThen I’d wait while she thinks about it.\nThen I’d say\, ‘Not only is disorderly consciousness boundless but also there is no foundation to rely on.’”\nGuishan said\, “Good!” \n—Book of Serenity Case 37 \nAs I have been spending time with this koan\, I’ve been recalling how there is nothing like travel to appreciate disorderly consciousness being boundless with no foundation to rely on. Planning for a trip is an exercise in the attempt to make things orderly\, which is an exercise in disorderly consciousness itself. Plane reservations\, hotel reservations\, reservations for tours\, guidebooks. How about when you are told that the seats printed on your boarding passes\, which you chose so carefully months in advance\, are not the seats that you are going to be sitting in…you can imagine the kind of disorderly consciousness that might arise and not only that\, but the two seats you do have are not together. \nOr how about when when the plane taking you to Europe on a 12–hour non–stop flight\, has only one working toilet for the entire plane…you can imagine the kind disorderly consciousness that \nmight arise\, not to mention feeling there is no foundation to rely on\, you cannot even rely on a working toilet. Or when Google maps correctly leads you to a shop that it listed as open\, but it is closed…even more that can’t be relied on. \nI suppose it’s no different than the kinds of situations I run into in my everyday life. But\, traveling is a kind of adventure. Sure\, I make plans and get reservations when I’m not traveling\, but when in “traveling mode” there is a higher likelihood of me appreciating that part of the adventure is things not going the way they are “supposed” to go and being open to see where they do go. \nRemembering that I am always “traveling\,” even when I’m home\, might be what Basho was thinking about when he wrote: \n“Every day is a journey\, and the journey itself is home.” \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-55/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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