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• Saturday Sangha – Arrive at the temple or join via Zoom by 9:30am for 40 minutes of zazen (you can log into the meeting starting at 9am for socializing), followed by a Dharma talk at 10:25am, with tea and refreshments afterward in the garden. Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.
  
  If you wish to have posture and meditation hall instructions – Saturday before 9am – please email info@hszc.org to arrange an instructor. If no guest or alternate speaker is listed the talk will be given by the Abbot, Rev. Myō

• Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday Morning Zazen & Service – In-person zazen begins for vaccinated individuals at 6:30am and ends at 7:10am, followed by a brief chanting service.
  
• Thursday Study Hour – Our ongoing study of the Shōbōgenzō continues 7:30pm – 8:30pm in person or via Zoom. You may send an email to info@hszc.org if you wish to be added to Rev. Myō’s weekly study hour email list and receive the Zoom details.
  
• Wednesday Evening Zazen – 6pm – 6:55pm – you may join us for a period of zazen and a brief chanting service. You can also still join via Zoom conferencing  – Please click here to sit with us online:. Meeting details –

Meeting ID: 918 8535 8969
Passcode: 5PZ5js

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Please join us for a Dharma talk 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.

Covid has come and gone throughout Issan-Ji temple (HSZC). Please know we warmly invite you to rejoin us for our public offerings in person in addition to continued zoom broadcast.

Please visit here for our current schedule or here for similar details. We hope you are in good health and in positive spirits. _/|\_

As usual if no alternate or guest speaker is listed the talk on Saturday is offered by the Abbot, Rev. Myō Lahey.

As covid continues to do its rounds in the student and priest population residing at HSZC, Issan-ji temple please join us on zoom and remember if there is no listed guest or alternate speaker on Saturdays it is the Abbot, Rev . Myō Lahey.

Please join us for a talk this Saturday by Rev. Shuji, Jeff Thomas. Rev Shuji is a long time HSZC sangha member, Board of Director, former resident student. He was ordained at Issan-Ji, HSZC through our Abbot, Rev. Myō Lahey in April of 2018.

Unfortunately we are still only offering zoom attendance due to covid positive infection inside the resident student and priest community of HSZC at this time.

Please join us online. The schedule is 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 after that. Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.

Please have a safe and enjoyable holiday. Issan-ji Temple/HSZC will be closed July 2nd through the 4th, reopening the 5th of July in observance of this holiday.

William Ralph Emerson  — A Nation’s Strength —

What makes a nation’s pillars high
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that round it throng
And its foundations strong

It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand
Go down in battle shock;
Its shafts are laid on sinking sand,
Not on abiding rock.

Is it the sword? Ask the red dust
Of empires passed away;
The blood has turned their stones to rust,
Their glory to decay.

And is it pride? Ah, that bright crown
Has seemed to nations sweet;
But God has struck its luster down
In ashes at his feet.

Not gold but only men can make
A people great and strong;
Men who for truth and honor’s sake
Stand fast and suffer long.

Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly…
They build a nation’s pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.

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.