Author: revmyo

Please join us for a Dharma talk by Rev. Koshin Steven Tierney, a Dharma transmitted teacher in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi. Steven is the guiding teacher at Oceans Compassion Zen Community, Meditation in Recovery Sangha at SFZC and the SFLGBTQA+ Sangha. Rev. Tierney is currently the president of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association. Dr. Tierney is a psychotherapist in private practice and Professor Emeritus in Counseling Psychology at CIIS. He has been integrating meditation, mindfulness, and breath-based wellness initiatives since 1995. For further information: Steventierneysf@gmail.com.

We’ll have zazen (seated meditation) as usual at 9:30 until 10:10, with the talk to follow, and afterwards tea and cookies will be on offer in the garden or the living room, depending on the weather. Everyone is welcome!

In observance of the national holiday, our zendō (meditation hall) will be closed all day Tuesday, 31 March. Please join us again for zazen (seated meditation) starting at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 1 April.

We’ll have a short memorial for this most-famous of Buddhist women, Buddha’s aunt, who raised him after his mother died shortly after giving birth. She was also the first woman arhat , and it was she whose patient persistence led to the founding of the order for female renunciates, the order of Bhikṣūṇīs. There’ll be zazen (seated meditation) as usual at 9:30, followed by the Dharma talk at 10:30, with the ceremony right after. And of course, tea and cookies in the living room or possibly the garden will be available for all, after the zendō events. Everyone is welcome!

Please join us for a Dharma talk by Rev. Koshin Steven Tierney, a Dharma transmitted teacher in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi. Steven is the guiding %⅙ at Oceans Compassion Zen Community, Meditation in Recovery Sangha at SFZC and the SFLGBTQA+ Sangha. Rev. Tierney is currently the president of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association. Dr. Tierney is a psychotherapist in private practice and Professor Emeritus in Counseling Psychology at CIIS. He has been integrating meditation, mindfulness, and breath-based wellness initiatives since 1995. For further information: Steventierneysf@gmail.com.

Please join us this Saturday morning at 10:30 for a Dharma talk by Rev. McCormick, who was ordained to the Nichiren-shū (Lotus Sutra School) ministry in 2001 by Rev. Ryusho Matsuda, of the San Jose Nichiren Temple. Rev. McCormick is also a long-time practitioner of zazen (seated meditation) and a student of the writings of Dōgen-zenji. We’ll have zazen at 9:30 as usual, and our beloved tea-and-cookies afterwards. Everyone is welcome.

Our old friend Felipe Melizalde and his partner are coming to San Francisco next month, between 14 and 19 July. They’re looking for a place to stay for those few days, a non-trivial task in this increasingly expensive city. If someone in our Sangha might be able to offer them a place to lay their heads, please let me know as soon as you can at info@hszc.org. Thank you in advance, and gasshō…🙏 -myō

This Saturday, 21 January, the 10:30 a.m. Dharma talk will be given by Steven, our good friend and our Sangha facilitator. Steven is a psychotherapist in private practice, and a Dharma heir or Rev. Cynthia Kear, in addition to being a longtime leader in the Recovery community. As always there is zazen (seated meditation) at 06:30 and again from 09:30 to 10:10. Following the talk we’ll share tea and cookies, in the garden if the weather allows.