Category: Dharma Talks

Guest Speaker: Rev. Daigan Gaither

Saturday 9 November, 10:15 a.m.

Rev. Daigan Gaither began Buddhist practice in 1995 in the Vipassana (Insight) tradition, and then began to study Zen in 2003 with Ryushin Paul Haller Roshi. He received Lay Ordination in 2006 where he was given the name Daigan or “Great Vow”, and received Priest Ordination in July 2011. Daigan speaks internationally on a variety of topics particularly around gender, sexuality, social justice and their intersections with the Dharma. He has a BA in Philosophy and Religion from San Francisco State University, and an MA in Buddhist Studies from the Graduate Theological Union and the Institute of Buddhist Studies.

Come for zazen (seated meditation) at 9:25 a.m., and stay for tea-and-cookies after the talk. All are welcome!

Please join us for a Dharma talk by Rev. Steven, priest-ordained by Rev. Dairyu Michael Wenger, and who is a psychotherapist and frequent consultant to 12-step programs, as well as group facilitator for our Issan-ji Sangha (community of practitioners). We’ll have zazen (seated meditation) as usual at 9:25, with the talk to follow, and afterwards tea and cookies will be on offer in the living room. Everyone is welcome!

Kodo Conlin is a novice priest, training at San Francisco Zen Center’s City Center. Coming into the practice of sitting in 2006, and ordaining in 2015, Kodo’s orientation in the Dharma is deeply informed by long-term, intensive retreat practice at Southwest Vipassana Meditation Center, Spirit Rock, and two years in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Kodo is also a member of the Right Use of Power Teachers Guild. He speaks in Marin at Spirit Rock’s Family Programs, and in San Francisco at Young Urban Zen. Kodo is passionate about deeply realizing the Dharma and sharing the joy of practice.

Please join us on Saturday, 22 June, at 10:15 a.m. for a Way-Seeking Mind Talk by our Sangha member, Shindo Nick Strzelczyk. These talks are an opportunity to share a practitioner’s story of how the many turns of a life-path have led to the practice of the Buddha Way. There will be zazen (seated meditation) as usual at 9:25 a.m., and as always there will be tea-and-cookies afterwards in the living room. Everyone is welcome…

Come and hear a Dharma talk this Saturday by our friend Rev. Peter, a long-time Zen practitioner and business owner, and a Dharma heir of Rev. Zoketsu Norman Fischer. There will be seated meditation (zazen) as usual at 9:25 a.m., and tea-and-cookies in the living room following the 10:15 a.m. talk. Everyone is welcome.