Please join us for our normal morning program followed by the first Dharma talk from our Abbot, Rev. Myo Lahey at 10:15am.
And following a great charitable event and stroll through SF and, a wonderful way to meet more fellow Buddhists at 12:45pm:
An Announcement in the waiting for over a decade!
At 4pm on October 13th 2013 our former Practice Leader ascended the mountain and became our Abbot! A deep bow of congratulations to all of Hartford Street Zen Center Community and to Rev Myo Lahey. We look forward to our years ahead together practicing this ancient, life changing way of Soto Zen.
Earnestly strive to avoid seeking outside, lest you go for astray. I travel on alone now, but everywhere I go I meet it. It is no other than me, but I am not it. Understand in this way to merge with true suchness – Dongshan
Saturday Sept. 28, 10:15am Guest Speaker:Japanese Missionary, Toku-ha Fukyoshi
Please join us next Saturday for a Special Dharma talk by a Japanese visitor and missionary: Toku-ha Fukyoshi (with assistance of a translator).
We will have our normal Saturday program starting at 6:30am, then the talk at 10:15, and the ever-popular tea and cookies will follow. All are welcome to join us for any portion or all of the morning offerings!
Late September Sangha News
September 14th at 10:15am, Guest Speaker Ayya Santacitta
Hartford Street is pleased to announce and invite you to a morning with a compassionate trailblazer in the rebuilding of a lineage of ordained bhikkhunis, Ayya Santacitta. Stemming originally from the Thai Forest Theravada tradition of Buddhism; the Nuns of Aloka Vihara are very well respected and frequently booked speakers/Dharma (Dhamma) teachers. They reside currently in a Vihara near Ocean Beach in San Francisco practicing with a vibrant and dedicated Sangha and are working on the intention to found a training monastery for bhikkhunis in a rural setting on the West Coast.
Ayya Santacitta was born in Austria and has practiced meditation since 1988. Her first teacher was Ajahn Buddhadasa, who sparked her interest in Buddhist monastic life. She has trained as a nun in both the East and West since 1993, primarily in the lineage of Ajahn Chah. Since 2002, however she also integrates Dzogchen teachings into her practice.
Ayya Santacitta is co-founder of Aloka Vihara, a training monastery for women in San Francisco, where she has lived since 2009. In 2011, she received bhikkhuni ordination with Ayya Tathaaloka Theri as preceptor. She offers teachings at the vihara, as well as in the wider Bay Area and occasionally other parts of the US, sharing her experience in community as a means for cultivating the heart and opening the mind.
Please join us for this wonderful event and feel free to read more about the Sisters on their website and watch this very touching video about their work & lives! Because the Nuns as part of their precepts must eat their final main meal of the day by noon Some of our Sangha will formally be offering a meal dana during our simultaneous offerings of tea and cookies.
Every Saturday we offer early morning zazen (seated meditation), a brief drop-in meditation instruction at 8:30 am. And again zazen at 9:25 am. We wrap up with a dharma talk at 10:15 am followed by tea and cookies.
Please join us any Saturday and we hope to see you often and for this special Saturday event!
Join us Saturday Mornings!
For any part of the following: early morning zazen (a little later than weekdays), morning chanting service, introductory or refresher run-down of sitting and zendo forms if of interest at 8:30am, another sitting at 9:25, followed by a Dharma talk from our practice leader Rev Myo Lahey then tea and cookies as we wrap up the Saturday Morning program.
We hope to see you here (@ HSZC)!
