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Please join us Saturday morning for the monthly ceremony of renewal of our Bodhisattva vows. Come for zazen (seated meditation) at 9:25 a.m., an edifying (we hope) Dharma talk at 10:15, and the ceremony will follow directly. Full prostrations are traditional, but standing bows are fine, as well. Tea-and-cookies will be served subsequently, as (almost) always. Everyone is welcome!

We’ll start sitting earlier than usual this coming Saturday. There will be two periods of zazen (seated meditation) beginning at 5:30 a.m., with a period of kinhin (walking meditation) in between at 6:10 a.m., and morning chanting following at 7:00. You may think, “Oh, that’s too early for me”, but you should give it a try, and you can always nap later. Also, we’ll serve a simple breakfast to participants, but you MUST sign up ahead-of-time, either via email at hszc108@yahoo.com, or by phone at (415) 863-2507. The rest of the Saturday schedule will be according to the recent changes we made, with another period of sitting at 9:25 and the Dharma talk at 10:15 a.m., followed by a brief ceremony of commemoration of the death of our founder, Rev. Issan Dorsey. Afterwards, there will be fistfuls of cookies for your enjoyment! Everyone is welcome…

Rev. Myo talks about different kinds of fear and how the study of the self affect’s one’s relation to fear.

Rev. Myo Lahey talks about the issues that came up at two Soto Zen conferences he attended in Oregon and discusses the current state of Zen in the West, comparing it to the transmission of Zen from China to Japan and how Zen has developed