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LGBTQ+ PRIDE SATURDAY – 25 June 2022 – Dharma talk by Rev. Koshin, Steven Tierney

Please join us for a Dharma talk Saturday by Koshin Steven Tierney, Ed.D. LPCC, who is Professor Emeritus of Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as well as a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco. Steven has been studying and practicing Buddhism for more than 25 years and was ordained by Michael Wenger in 2013, serving as Shuso in 2014.

Steven’s commitment is to a community-based Buddhism and he has spent the last twenty years extending Buddha’s teachings to those living with addictions, in recovery and those facing serious physical and mental health challenges.  A certified addiction specialist, he is the Co-Founder of the San Francisco Mindfulness Foundation providing training, consultation, psychotherapy mindfulness-based mental health services to individuals and families.

Join us for zazen (seated meditation), with the talk to follow, we offer in-person distanced attendance; We also will continue to offer a Zoom web conferencing for video and/or audio presence for the scheduled events. 9:30 zazen (you can log into the conference starting at 9am to socialize) for 40 minutes and a Dharma talk at 10:30am, followed by Q&A as well as an opportunity to check in and see how you are doing and tea and cookies in person after that. Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.

Interested in walking in SF’s LGBTQ+ pride parade with other zen practitioners with or without HSZC t-shirt? Visit here for more details.

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LGBTQ+ Pride month is “Marching” on & join us @ HSZC/Issan-ji this month & even march in the parade!

We have been kindly invited to join the SFZC parade contingent of the SF LGBT+ Parade Sunday, June 26th 2022, Historically it has been acceptable if you wish, to wear an HSZC/Issan-ji temple t-shirt to promote our temple too if you own any from the past few designs that have been developed.

Please both join us this month @ Issan-ji to continue to be a part of one of the world’s only and longest running Buddhist spaces with a particular focus as it was founded and still is primarily attended and funded for and by the LGBT+ community & walk in the parade.

Here are details if you wish to join the march/walk and if you intend to go or can serve as a safety monitor please let us know so we can let SFZC organizers know.

As of now, below are the full details on the march/parade we have and more to come, also please for more and to notify SFZC email: tetsugen.keido@yahoo.com (Keido) to get updates and he can advise SFZC of your attendance.

“We will gather at 300 Page Street at 9:30 a.m. and take Muni together to the spot assigned to our contingent. If people prefer to meet us there, I will send our contingent number and meet-up location once we receive that information. We’ll have a truck for those who’d like to ride rather than walk and will be decorating the truck while we wait to begin marching.  The theme of this year’s parade is Love Will Keep Us Together. Some of us will be wearing robes or other Zen clothing, others of us will be dressing creatively.  You are welcome to create banners. Here’s a link to the parade website. We’ll need some volunteers to be contingent monitors (for safety); SF Pride provides a brief online training for that role.” 

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HAPPY LGBT+ / Gay Pride Month 2022!

A special happy pride month as we still continue to crawl out of the pandemic. There is an opportunity for Issan-ji/HSZC Sangha to march/walk in the Pride Parade the last Sunday of June with sfzc. More details to come.

Otherwise and in addition, have a very joy-filled month celebrating who you are and who you love and the progress our community has made since these events began and the many years prior.

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Guest Speaker (Zoom available): Sat. 5/21 –Rev. Hobu, Beata Chapman

Hobu Beata Chapman has practiced Zen with chronic nerve pain and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for 23 years. She studied with Katherine Thanas at Santa Cruz Zen Center and with Darlene Cohen until her untimely death, and received Dharma transmission from Tony Patchell in 2013. Beata also helped Hartford Street Zen Center with its’ council process for several years and is a great friend of Issan-ji Temple.

Beata continues the Suffering & Delight groups for people with chronic pain that Darlene founded around 15 years ago, and teaches an online S&D group she began for people not able to attend in person. For more information about Beata’s work with chronic pain, you can see sufferinganddelight.net. Beata is an organizational consultant currently doing corporate leadership training and assisting health care organizations to develop compliance systems. She recently started a zazen group in San Mateo (PenZen.net).

Saturday mornings we offer in-person distanced attendance and continued zoom alternative or for those far from the temple.

You are invited to join us in person or the Zoom meeting for meditation (zazen) any time starting at 9 a.m. for socializing and to check-in on how you are doing. Zazen begins at 9:30 a.m. followed by the Dharma talk at 10:30am am, followed by Q&A as well as an another opportunity to check in and see how you are doing and for those in person followed by treats and tea.

Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.

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Guest Speaker ( including Zoom Sangha): Sat. April 23 –Rev. Gengyoko, Tim Wicks

Please join us for a Dharma talk by Rev. Tim, priest-ordained in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-rōshi, and who is a longtime leader in the Bay Area Recovery community, as well as a skilled instructor in the practice of sewing Buddhist Dharma robes. Born in Utah and raised in London, Gengyoko Tim Wicks studied fine art at San Francisco State University and received his MFA with distinction from California College of Arts and Crafts. He studied for four years with Spirit Rock teacher Eugene Cash and was a steering committee member of the Insight Meditation Community of San Francisco.

Saturday mornings we offer in-person distanced attendance and continued zoom alternative or for those far from the temple.

You are invited to join us in person or the Zoom meeting for meditation (zazen) any time starting at 9 a.m. for socializing and to check-in on how you are doing. Zazen begins at 9:30 a.m. followed by the Dharma talk at 10:30am am, followed by Q&A as well as an another opportunity to check in and see how you are doing and for those in person followed by treats and tea.

Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.