Birthday of Eihei Dogen-zenji

We’ll celebrate Dogen-zenji’s 819th birthday this Saturday, 12 January, beginning with zazen (seated meditation) at 6:30 a.m., continuing with semi-formal breakfast, and continuing with zazen at 9:25, followed by the regular 10:15 a.m. Saturday Dharma talk. We’ll sit together again after the Dharma talk, and at noon we’ll have a short ceremony commemorating Dogen’s birthday. And, there’ll be birthday cake to share afterwards! Everyone is welcome to attend, but if you’d like to join us for breakfast, it would help if you’d let us know, either by telephone message at 415-863-2507, or email to info@hszc.org. Thank you!

Buddha’s Enlightenment Day – Saturday 8 December

Come celebrate the enlightenment of Shakyamuni Buddha with us! We’ll start with our usual period of zazen (seated meditation) at 6:30 a.m., and continue with chanting, break-fast, a Dharma talk, more zazen, and finally a ceremony commemorating the Enlightenment at noon, with special refreshments to follow. Everyone is welcome! There’s no charge, but donations are greatly needed and much appreciated.

Annual Retreat: Winter Light

We are very sad to have to report that the annual retreat has been canceled due to insufficient sign-ups. We deeply apologize to anyone who is inconvenienced as a result. We’ll try again next year…

Soon it will be time for our annual meditation retreat, or sesshin

Join the SFZC Pride Parade Contingent!

 

This year SFZC has invited us to march in the Pride Parade on Sunday, June 24rd. They are contingent #172 and will be set up on Main St. between Mission and Howard. Please arrive between 12 and 1:30, as the anticipated step-off time is 1:30.

New Year’s Eve Celebration

Warm up to the New Year by chillin’ with us! Here’s the schedule:

7:00 pm Dai-Soji (temple cleaning)
7:30 pm Zazen (sitting and walking meditation)
9:00 pm New Year’s Toast

Afterwards, you can go out and paint the town, if so inclined, but you’ll go with a peaceful heart. What could be better? Everyone is welcome.