Hartford Street Zen Center | Issan-ji temple
A Sōtō Zen temple for the LGBTQ+ community, friends and allies in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood
HSZC can house your wedding and has multiple spaces including a back yard garden. Rev Myo Lahey can also perform your service! We’ve had our first Same Gender marriage and look forward to joining more couples in the future!
Please drop by during our public open hours, call or email us to discuss further in person! Congratulations to our first same gender, legally wed couple Richard and Al!
We’ve formed council with the intention and hope of building a forum to continue to talk of and discuss with each other – and with the sangha at large – for issues, concerns, questions and conflicts which have been challenging – or downright hard to talk about. This time and space is also a time for expressions of gratitude and conversations of most any HSZC sangha matters. We’ll use a practice model of working with each other with the most skillful speech we can access. This is a great opportunity also for those who haven’t been around lately to reengage and be a part of the present and future Hartford Street!
The scaffold we’ll be working from is based on the Council process developed by the Ojai Foundation.
Our next meeting will be on Saturday 12:30pm to 2:30pm, for 120 minutes (with a break included).
You do not need to have an ‘issue’ or overt concern to attend. Council is sangha building and healing. All are welcome!
The reason we have a prosperous and “free” society in our United States is not so much about Independence, but Interdependence. Please enjoy your holiday today and remember because of causes we have these conditions. Happy Interdependence day!
We will see you again July 8th @ 6pm have a safe & joyful holiday!
We will be taking a small “open to the public” break this Thursday through Saturday. Picking up our regular public schedule again Monday at 6pm, the 8th of July.
We hope you had a great Pride Celebration weekend, and please have safe and enjoyable celebration of our Country’s Interdependence, whoops we meant Independence!
June 30th at roughly 9am: 
The San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) has a parade contingent in every annual Pride March in San Francisco and this year we have even more reason to celebrate! SFZC is always seeking more to join us to represent the compassionate love and support of the Zen community. They always look to and extend this to the HSZC (Hartford Street Zen Center) Sangha to join in and march with them. If you are available please DO join us.
Happy LGBTQI – Month and weekend festivities and celebrations to all!
