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. 
Coming to RMC in July!
SATURDAY, JULY 21st, 9AM - 5PM Walking Naturally Being Unborn with Bankei An Urban Retreat with David Weinstein "When you are walking along naturally, you are in harmony with the Unborn" - Bankei Yotaku It was Bankei who my teacher in Japan, Yamada Roshi, quoted as he gave me his his condolences for my mother's death. He said how sorry he was to have heard the news of my mother's death and he added: "But, you know, we are never really born so… We never really die." ...more on Retreats 
KALPA: The Koans & Liberation Project Archive.
This is PZI's own online library of teachings (and more) accessible to all—not just members—at a monthly rate no more than the cost of lunch. 
SUMMER READING!
A SPECIAL ISSUE of UNCERTAINTY CLUB The Myth We're In • June 2018. Joan Sutherland's remarkable 3-Part essay on our turbulent times. Read, savor and share! All PZI RETREATS, RETREATS
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. 
The Song of the Cuckoo Calling You Home, with Rachel Boughton Roshi
July 6–7 Nalanda West Seattle, WA There are real and deep and important questions in life like, What am I? What do I love? What’s my true home? Am I welcome here on the earth? There is also something else, a voice that is always calling, insistent, trying at last to get your attention. The answers aren’t where you’re looking! Meditation and the imaginative possibilities of koan practice are one of the ways to discover that voice calling inside you. REGISTER or More info |
WEDNESDAY, June 20th, 7-9pm,Searching Together In the Dark with David Weinstein
Koan story- The great Sufi master Mullah Nasruddin was on his hands and knees searching for something under a streetlamp. A man saw him and asked, "What are you looking for?" "My house key," Nasruddin replied. "I lost it." A person joined him in looking for the key, and after a period of fruitless searching, the person asked, "Are you sure you lost it around here?" Nasruddin replied, "Oh no, I didn't lose it around here. I lost it over there, by my house." "Then why," the person asked, "are you looking for it over here?" "Because," Nasruddin said, "The light is so much better over here." This story is an old friend that I have visited and been visited by many times over the years. It can serve as a cautionary tale about the problems of using what we know. It can be seen to speak to the importance of moving outside the familiar, well-lit areas of our life. It paid me a visit on the last day of our recent retreat, when I couldn't find the keys to my car. However, during this most recent visit, what stood out to me was the person who helped the Mullah. I found that the story carried on beyond the usual place it ends. Of course, the person helping the Mullah would have gone into the dark to help him look there too. It struck me how a retreat is like that, how our practice is like that, we help each other search in the dark. David SATURDAY June 23rd 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 24th 9:30am-12pm - Who Are You Sending Over the Cliff? with David Weinstein
A koan story- A farmer got so old that he couldn’t work the fields anymore. So he would spend the day just sitting on the porch. His son, still working the farm, would look up from time to time and see his father sitting there. “He’s of no use any more,” the son thought to himself, “he doesn’t do anything!” One day the son got so frustrated by this, that he built a wood coffin, dragged it over to the porch, and told his father to get in. Without saying anything, the father climbed inside. After closing the lid, the son dragged the coffin to the edge of the farm where there was a high cliff. As he approached the cliff, he heard a light tapping on the lid from inside the coffin. He opened it up. Still lying there peacefully, the father looked up at his son. “I know you are going to throw me over the cliff, but before you do, may I suggest something?” “What is it?” replied the son. “Throw me over the cliff, if you like,” said the father, “but save this good wood coffin. Your children might need to use it.” From time to time, I catch glimpses of my father, in the mirror, or more disturbingly in my behavior. From time to time, I find myself tempted to throw those things that I recognize about my father in myself over the "cliff". But, those qualities are as much mine, as they are my father's and throwing them over the cliff would be a kind of suicide and meditation practice is about being alive, so...what do we do? In the context of this story and having a meditation practice, we take a step off the cliff ourselves and discover that it isn't suicide at all. David 
Introduction to Koan Meditation with David Weinstein
Sunday, Jun. 24th, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Zen koan meditation is a tradition that has been held somewhat under wraps. Although koans, which are often the record of interchanges between teachers and students, are readily available, the sharing of similar interchanges between contemporary practitioners and their teachers have not been shared. It is ironic that Koan practice should generate a veil of mystery around it. MORE on this Intro CLASS. PZI Community - Articles, Announcements, Talks & Blog Posts from our larger Community
New PZI Zendo
Share the Moon Meditation Community 640 Hillcrest Dr, Felton, Ca. Please RSVP - 2nd & 4th Sundays every month, SUNDAY Jun. 24th 10:30am -12pm Jan Brogan will work with form and emptiness this Sunday. Please bring a poem or some prose to share. Contact Illana Berger for more information on the group. |
