Meeting the Inconceivable | Zen Koans, Dreams & the Creative Life
Meeting the Inconceivable is a podcast exploring Zen koans, dreams, and the creative life produced by Pacific Zen Institute (PZI).
PZI is a lively Rinzai Zen community and mystery school made up of artists, innovators, and seekers of all kinds. Our talks weave traditional Zen and koan practice with poetry, art, Jungian and archetypal psychology, and Eastern and Western myth.
Our deep dive in-person retreats are held primarily in Northern California, but our members and gatherings extend worldwide through our online temple.
Our mission is to create a culture of transformation through meditation, koans, the arts, and conversations about the deepest matters. Join the koan revolution.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 21
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
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Guanyin's 84,000 Hands & Eyes of Mercy [EP 1]
Today's episode centers on awakening as a practice of intimacy. Roshi John Tarrant takes up koan case 89 from The Blue Cliff Record:
Yunyan asked Daowu, “How does Guanyin use all those hands and eyes…