New @ RMC - COMING SOON!
Livestreamed talks with David Weinstein on RMC COMMUNITY NIGHTS! Beginning WED. JUNE 27th 7-9pm. Stay tuned for specifics in the newsletter. 
WEDNESDAY, June 6th, 7-9pm, Setting Off On the Way with David Longerbeam Koan: Blue Cliff case 25: The hermit of Lotus Flower Peak held up his staff and showed it to the assembly saying, "When the ancients got here, why didn't they stay here?" There was no answer, so he answered for them, "Because it had no power for the Way" It is now graduation season, and speeches are full of exhortations to the graduates to "Seize the Day", "Follow your Bliss", or even "Make a Difference". (Full disclosure: my youngest child is graduating from high school.) How do we know when we are seizing the moment? How do we know our Bliss? Wonderful advice - is there a path to find our way? Is there a Way? What does this have to do with a Zen practice? Let's explore together these questions of our Path, our Way. David L __________________________________________________________ SATURDAY June 9th 8am - 10:30am Individual Conversations with David Weinstein, Roshi on your meditation practice. No experience necessary. People will be invited in for a conversation in the order in which they arrive. For those who can't make it on Saturdays, it is possible to schedule appointments with David at other times of the week. Contact David Dana gratefully accepted. 
SUNDAY June 10th 9:30am-12pm - 'Going, Going, Gone' with David Weinstein Our summer retreat is just a week away and we will be spending it with the Heart Sutra, which is thought of as the essence of the teaching, the 'heart' of the teaching. A summation of everything in all the other texts in only 260 Chinese characters. I first encountered the Heart Sutra at the Japanese Temple in Bodhgaya India, the site of the Buddha's enlightenment. We read the Sutra after our meditation each morning. I was impressed how the abbot of the temple, who led the meditation and reading, appeared to be reading the text for the first time, each time and I was there for over a month. Its brevity and simple language captures something that I appreciate about the Zen tradition. Recently, as I have been spending time with the Sutra, it is the mantra at the end that has captured my attention. Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha. Gone, gone, into the gone beyond, completely into the gone beyond, awakening, at last! It reminds me of what a baseball announcer might say as the ball goes sailing over the right field fence, or what an auctioneer might call out as the item for sale is 'going, going, gone'. The exultation of the home run, the urgency of the auction, both qualities I recognize in my meditation practice. David 
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Larger Community: MONDAY, June. 4th, 7pm-9pm - Monthly talk by John Tarrant, Roshi (Livestreamed) Fortunately There Is No Foundation To Rely On Events just go along and follow each other. Our idea of who we are, our idea of the news, and of disasters and joys of life depends on this. When we meditate though many things fall away and the moment stretches out into infinity. At this moment we have always been here. Here is a story from The Book Of Serenity about two friends. Guishan is the teacher but they worked together in a free way.... More 
New PZI Zendo
Share the Moon Meditation Community 640 Hillcrest Dr, Felton, Ca. Please RSVP - 2nd & 4th Sundays every month, 10:30am -12pm Contact Illana Berger for more information on the group. 
SUNDAY, Jun. 10th,
9:30-12pm - Straight to Hell - Teachers First! with Illana Berger A student asked the teacher, “Do enlightened teachers ever fall into hell?” “I’ll be the first to go there,”replied the teacher. “But you’re an enlightened teacher,” said the student. “Why would you fall into hell?” “If I didn’t fall into hell, how could I help you?” she answered. More here All PZI RETREATS, RETREATS
The Heart of Wisdom:
PZI's Summer, Long Retreat - John Tarrant & Friends June 11-17, 2018 St. Clare's Retreat Center Soquel, CA The Queen of Heaven, Avalokiteshvara, hears our cries, and with great tenderness leans down into our world, and says, Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness is exactly form. And out of these words Zen begins. They are the Big Bang of our spiritual tradition. Under their power, the distance between our intimate lives, and the vastness of the universe that holds us, disappears. Our koans, awakenings, stories, teachings, wisdom paths, and consolations are all born from her mysterious words. MORE INFO OR REGISTER NOW! _____________________________________________________ 
The Soul’s Journey, with John Tarrant
August 16-19 Commonweal Center Bolinas, CA An Open Mind Retreat. When we leave our little home in the village, we leave everything we know and it gets dark and the great forces come to meet us. Witches, wizards, guides, demons, ghosts, as well as unlooked-for help and kindness, appear at full speed. We find we need to come to terms with the things we don’t know about the world and ourselves. 
A SPECIAL ISSUE of UNCERTAINTY CLUB
The Myth We're In • June 2018. Joan Sutherland's 3-Part essay on our turbulent times. Read, savor and share! SAVE THESE RETREAT DATES
FALL SESSHIN 2018 - Oct. 14-19 @ Mt Madonna WINTER SESSIN 2019 - Jan.14-20th @ Santa Sabina OPEN MIND Retreats 2018 Winter November 29–December 2 @ Commonweal Center, Bolinas, CA 
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