Events
Register: What is a Good Day? Hosted by David Weinstein
WEDNESDAY, August 26th
PZI Zen Online 7:00 PM PDT
The Universe
Register to attend – The prospect of every day being a good day is attractive. Equanimity in the midst of chaos sounds like a preferred way for things to go. It is not uncommon to think that after awakening everything is going to be fine, no more troubles, no more problems. Attaining Nirvana, paradise, is the goal, right? Depends on what Nirvana means to you.
Numbing Tooth & Soul? Hosted by Andrea Rubin
SUNDAY: August 23
RMC Zen Online 4pm PDT
The Universe
RMC Zen online – Emily’s line feels very vivid to me, and makes me speculate on what’s the narcotic and what’s the tooth and what’s the soul — am I seeking meditation practice as a narcotic, or maybe the tooth and the soul are using meditation to sit me down for a conversation, or maybe all of the above?
Thunder, Fire & Lizards, Oh My! Not in Kansas Anymore hosted by Corey Hitchcock
WEDNESDAY, August 19th
RMC Zen Online 7pm PDT
The Universe
RMC Zen online – ‘We and everything we perceive are interwoven’ says Shitou. He whispers at my shoulder pointedly: ‘Perceive’. I do see interweaving everywhere. What about ‘not interwoven’ though? How is that so? Is that the realm of the ME? The place I fall out of the net? But doesn’t something hold me even there?
The Sound of One Hand is Awakening Hosted by David Weinstein
SUNDAY, August 16th
4pm -5:30pm
The Universe
RMC Zen Online: Even as you struggle with the design of the seamless tomb, that too is your awakening. As one day melts into another and our time in pandemic stretches into the unknown future, that too is the sound of awakening. Can you hear it?
Register: Seeing the Vastness Hosted by David Weinstein
WEDNESDAY, August 12th
Zen Online 7pm PDT
Universe
Register PZI Zen ONline – Seeing the face, our original face, facing the vastness, can help us include the cries of the world. When it comes to doing something about those cries, it’s good to know the names of those things that we can do.
Hiding your body in the Big Dipper Hosted by David Weinstein
SUNDAY, August 9th
RMC Zen Online 4:00 PM PDT
The Universe
RMC Zen Online: Though we don’t know exactly what Xuedou’s question was, I believe it had something to do with the difference between hearing and seeing. The solution to the way thought obscurs the natural clarity of our minds is to appreciate that thoughts are part of the natural clarity of our minds.
Our Fox Lives Matter hosted by Jonathan Meyers
WEDNESDAY: August 5th
RMC Zen Online 7pm PDT
The Universe
RMC Zen Online -This is a long koan with plenty of interesting facets to consider. I was recently invited to spend some time with the bit about the old man’s request for a funeral. What was that about? It’s interesting that this was first thing the old man had to say after his long-sought enlightenment. Seemingly, his first concern was to pay respect to who he had been along the way; the unenlightened him. I think there’s a lesson in this.
Register: Set Adrift on the River of Life Hosted by David Weinstein
WEDNESDAY, July 29th
PZI Zen Online 7pm PDT
The Universe
Register: In a time of pandemic, like now, that sense of uncertainty is heightened and the subsequent energy arising from that can be plowed back into our practice.
Wait Listed: Urban Retreat Daylong – The Light Beyond the Light with David Weinstein, Roshi
SATURDAY, August 22nd
RMC PZI Zen online 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM PDT
The Universe
Register for Urban Retreat: The image of “the light beyond the light” caught my attention as I read the poem that is the Preface to the Blue Cliff Record, a collection of one hundred koans. It is said that, entering into the Blue Cliff, you will open ‘the eye within eyes’, and living life informed by the Blue Cliff, you yourself become a beacon, ‘the light beyond light’. That being so, you find that whichever of the ten thousand doors you knock on ‘someone will answer.
Count the Stars, Again Hosted by David Weinstein
SUNDAY, July 19th
RMC Zen Online 4 - 5:30 PM (PDT)
The Universe
RMC Zen Online: A number of people have spoken to me about the way sheltering in place during the pandemic has become a challenge vis-à-vis boredom. Days melting into each other, falling into the rhythm of being at home more, losing track of what day it is often. I’ve heard reports of Netflix and video game consumption skyrocketing to the point of concern as work was not getting done.