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Desert Rain Zen Sunrise Retreat, March 2026: 3rd night talk: Megan

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2517419/fan_mail/new] Megan gives the third night talk at our spring retreat focusing on Zhaozhou. She explores the crucial ways in which Zhaozhou’s teaching not only emphasizes our ordinary mind and our actual lives, but does so by inducing us to ground ourselves in our embodied experience, in our actual bodies, where prajna is already at home. * About us: Desert Rain Zen is located in Tucson, Arizona. But almost all our activities take place on Zoom or as hybrid events, so you don't need to live here to practice with us.   Desert Rain Zen podcasts are free. If you'd like to support our podcasting and other activities, you can make a tax-deductible donation on our website at https://www.desertrainzen.org/donate.html [https://www.desertrainzen.org/donate.html]   For more information you can email us at desertrainzen@gmail.com or find us at https://www.desertrainzen.org/ [https://www.desertrainzen.org/] and on Facebook. You can also find additional teachings and updated information about Tenney's various activities at https://tenneynathanson.com/ [https://tenneynathanson.com/] and on his Substack at https://tenneynathanson.substack.com/p/about-tenneynathansonzen [https://tenneynathanson.substack.com/p/about-tenneynathansonzen]

Desert Rain Zen Sunrise Retreat, March 2026: 2nd night talk: Tenney

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2517419/fan_mail/new] Tenney gives the second night talk at our spring retreat focusing on Zhaozhou. Bringing in several short Zhaozhou mondo, Tenney talks briefly about some of what he’s noticed keeping company with these short dialogues, and then opens things up for a koan conversation. * About us: Desert Rain Zen is located in Tucson, Arizona. But almost all our activities take place on Zoom or as hybrid events, so you don't need to live here to practice with us.   Desert Rain Zen podcasts are free. If you'd like to support our podcasting and other activities, you can make a tax-deductible donation on our website at https://www.desertrainzen.org/donate.html [https://www.desertrainzen.org/donate.html]   For more information you can email us at desertrainzen@gmail.com or find us at https://www.desertrainzen.org/ [https://www.desertrainzen.org/] and on Facebook. You can also find additional teachings and updated information about Tenney's various activities at https://tenneynathanson.com/ [https://tenneynathanson.com/] and on his Substack at https://tenneynathanson.substack.com/p/about-tenneynathansonzen [https://tenneynathanson.substack.com/p/about-tenneynathansonzen]

Desert Rain Zen Sunrise Retreat, March 2026: 1st night talks: Tenney & Megan

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2517419/fan_mail/new] Tenney and Megan give the opening night talks at our spring 2026 retreat, which focuses on the teachings of Chan teacher Zhaozhou.  * About us: Desert Rain Zen is located in Tucson, Arizona. But almost all our activities take place on Zoom or as hybrid events, so you don't need to live here to practice with us.   Desert Rain Zen podcasts are free. If you'd like to support our podcasting and other activities, you can make a tax-deductible donation on our website at https://www.desertrainzen.org/donate.html [https://www.desertrainzen.org/donate.html]   For more information you can email us at desertrainzen@gmail.com or find us at https://www.desertrainzen.org/ [https://www.desertrainzen.org/] and on Facebook. You can also find additional teachings and updated information about Tenney's various activities at https://tenneynathanson.com/ [https://tenneynathanson.com/] and on his Substack at https://tenneynathanson.substack.com/p/about-tenneynathansonzen [https://tenneynathanson.substack.com/p/about-tenneynathansonzen]

Desert Rain Zen Desert Sunrise Retreat, March 2024: Refuge Retreat, 2nd night talk: Tenney

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2517419/fan_mail/new] Tenney gives the second night talk at our March 2024 Desert Rain Zen Desert Sunrise Refuge Retreat.   “There is someone at peace, / walking in the Tao . . . “ (Yongjia Xuanjue, “Song of Realizing the Way”)  Is that about realizing “oneness” and, if that’s the case, is that the whole story, the whole of “the absolute”?  Maybe not. As Shitou puts it, in Joan Sutherland and John Tarrant’s translation of “Taking Part in the Gathering” (=, in the Japanese, Sekito, “Sandokai”): We and everything we perceive\ are interwoven and not interwoven, and this interweaving continues on and on, while each thing stands in its own place.   And this “each thing” standing “in its own place,” as Suzuki Roshi stresses in his book on Shitou’s poem, is also “RI,” the absolute. Dualism or non-dualism? Yes. So:  BLAM! That’s (also) it!  Corollary (in for a penny, in for a pound):  “Each being's eternal radiance appears before you. Each being is an 8,000-foot precipice.” --Miaozong   There is someone at peace, walking in the Tao.    (talk given March 20, 2024 at the Redemptorist Renewal Center out at Picture Rocks in Tucson)      * About us: Desert Rain Zen is located in Tucson, Arizona. But almost all our activities take place on Zoom or as hybrid events, so you don't need to live here to practice with us.   Desert Rain Zen podcasts are free. If you'd like to support our podcasting and other activities, you can make a tax-deductible donation on our website at https://www.desertrainzen.org/donate.html [https://www.desertrainzen.org/donate.html]   For more information you can email us at desertrainzen@gmail.com or find us at https://www.desertrainzen.org/ [https://www.desertrainzen.org/] and on Facebook. You can also find additional teachings and updated information about Tenney's various activities at https://tenneynathanson.com/ [https://tenneynathanson.com/] and on his Substack at https://tenneynathanson.substack.com/p/about-tenneynathansonzen [https://tenneynathanson.substack.com/p/about-tenneynathansonzen]

Desert Rain Zen Desert Sunrise Retreat, March 2024: Refuge Retreat, 1st night talks: Tenney & Megan

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2517419/fan_mail/new] Tenney and Megan give the opening night talks at our March 2024 Desert Rain Zen Desert Sunrise Refuge Retreat, suggesting some ways we can let ourselves fall open to what’s already available, on offer.   “There is someone at peace, / walking in the Tao . . . “ (Yongjia Xuanjue, “Song of Realizing the Way”)   (talks given March 19, 2024 at the Redemptorist Renewal Center out at Picture Rocks in Tucson)  * About us: Desert Rain Zen is located in Tucson, Arizona. But almost all our activities take place on Zoom or as hybrid events, so you don't need to live here to practice with us.   Desert Rain Zen podcasts are free. If you'd like to support our podcasting and other activities, you can make a tax-deductible donation on our website at https://www.desertrainzen.org/donate.html [https://www.desertrainzen.org/donate.html]   For more information you can email us at desertrainzen@gmail.com or find us at https://www.desertrainzen.org/ [https://www.desertrainzen.org/] and on Facebook. You can also find additional teachings and updated information about Tenney's various activities at https://tenneynathanson.com/ [https://tenneynathanson.com/] and on his Substack at https://tenneynathanson.substack.com/p/about-tenneynathansonzen [https://tenneynathanson.substack.com/p/about-tenneynathansonzen]