Hartford Street Zen Center | Issan-ji temple
A Sōtō Zen temple for the LGBTQ+ community, friends and allies in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood
We are now studying – Dōgen Zenji’s Shōbōgenzō 正法眼蔵, lit. “Treasury of the True Dharma Eye” – Thursday evenings 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., also via Zoom. Volume 2 of the two volume set of “Kaz” Kazuaki Tanahashi and team’s translation. Please email info@hszc.org to join the group.
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 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) and a Dharma talk at ~10:10 am, followed by Q&A as well as an opportunity to check in and see how you are doing.
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After our usual Saturday scheduled routine we will observe the परिनिर्वाण Parinirvāṇa of the Buddha. Please join us for this after the Saturday Dharma talk.
Please join us for a Dharma talk Next 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.
To join us Saturday mornings online we offer a Zoom web conferencing for video and/or audio presence for the scheduled events. ~9:25 zazen (you can log into the conference starting at 9am to socialize) and a Dharma talk at ~10:10am, followed by Q&A as well as an opportunity to check in and see how you are doing. Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.
Whenever we do not post a guest speaker please know the talk on Saturdays still occurs and is offered by our Abbot, Rev. Myō Lahey.
Thank you and please join us!
To join us Saturday mornings online we offer a Zoom web conferencing for video and/or audio presence for the scheduled events starting at 9am to socialize, ~9:25 zazen (meditation) a Dharma talk at ~10:10am, followed by Q&A as well as an opportunity to check in and see how you are doing. Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.
Please join us for a Dharma talk Next Saturday by KoShin Steven Tierney, Ed.D. CAS who is Professor of Counseling Psychology and Chair of the Community Mental Health Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. A certified addiction specialist, he is the Co- Founder of the San Francisco Mindfulness Foundation, providing relapse prevention and mindfulness- based services to individuals and families.
Steven has been studying and practicing Buddhism for more than 20 years and was ordained by Michael Wenger on January 6, 2013. Steven’s commitment is to a community based Buddhism and he has spent the last ten years extending Buddha’s teachings to those living with addictions, in recovery and those facing serious health and mental health challenges.
To join us Saturday mornings online we offer a Zoom web conferencing for video and/or audio presence for the scheduled events. ~9:25 zazen (you can log into the conference starting at 9am to socialize) and a Dharma talk at ~9:55am, followed by Q&A as well as an opportunity to check in and see how you are doing. Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.
