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Jisan Tova Green has been in residence at San Francisco Zen Center for many years. She was ordained as a Zen priest and received Dharma Transmission from Eijun Linda Cutts in 2015 and has held many positions; she now resides and teaches at City Center. She co-founded the SFZC Queer Dharma Group in 2009 and the group “Unpacking Whiteness – Reflection and Action.” Tova has worked as a hospice social worker, plays the cello, and writes poetry. She has given several talks at our temple, but it has been a little while since she joined us and offered her words.

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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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.

PLEASE ALSO DO NOT FORGET: Half day sitting on April 10 combined with our annual celebration of the Buddha’s birthday.

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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Wishing you a happy new year for the year of the Ox and please join us Saturday for a talk from Rev. Myō  Lahey to start the year 4719.

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.

We hope you rang in the new year with health and peace and we are welcoming in the new year here where we will be closed until Wed January 6th.

We will see you soon! 😉

Please join us online as we welcome in the new year using east coast times! The event will start at 7:30pm PT and wrap up 9pm PT which is midnight at times square where people in past year’s gathered to watch the crystal ball usher in a new year. Below are our details including how to make the traditional noodles like we served in past years at issan-ji temple/hszc when we could gather in-person—

Details include:

7:30 – zazen with metta 

8:10 – kinhin

8:20 – zazen with 108 bells 🔔 

9:00 Happy East Coast New Year! 🙏🎉

101 Cookbooks Vegan Ramen recipe is here to inspire your new year’s noodles 🍜

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