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As is our custom, we’ll be closed all day Thursday, 4 July, in observance of the national holiday. Our regular schedule will resume Tuesday 07 July at 06:30 hrs. Please have a safe and enjoyable holiday, everyone!

As one of the first and only (even still) LGBTQ+ Buddhist temples in the world we wish you great amounts of joy, calm and ease in who you are and to have all the rights all human beings have or are entitled to. SF is known as an epicenter of things “gay” and a home to all our communities within or related to this older general term. We hope you might go out and about and enjoy the cities visitors and events has kicked off and today is the Trans Parade that celebrates gender nonconformity! Happy Pride to all!

Rev. Ryuei Michael McCormick

Saturday, 20 June, 10:30 a.m.

Please join us this Saturday for a Dharma talk by Rev. McCormick, who was ordained to the Nichiren-shū (Lotus Sutra School) ministry in 2001 by Rev. Ryusho Matsuda, of the San Jose Nichiren Temple. Rev. McCormick is also a long-time practitioner of zazen (seated meditation) and a student of the writings of Dōgen-zenji. We’ll have zazen at 9:30 as usual, and our beloved tea-and-cookies afterwards. Everyone is welcome.

Please join us for a Dharma talk by Rev. Koshin Steven Tierney, a Dharma transmitted teacher in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi. Steven is the guiding teacher at Oceans Compassion Zen Community, Meditation in Recovery Sangha at SFZC and the SFLGBTQA+ Sangha. Rev. Tierney is currently the president of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association. Dr. Tierney is a psychotherapist in private practice and Professor Emeritus in Counseling Psychology at CIIS. He has been integrating meditation, mindfulness, and breath-based wellness initiatives since 1995. For further information: Steventierneysf@gmail.com.

We’ll have zazen (seated meditation) as usual at 9:30 until 10:10, with the talk to follow, and afterwards tea and cookies will be on offer in the garden or the living room, depending on the weather. Everyone is welcome!

In observance of the national holiday, our zendō (meditation hall) will be closed all day Tuesday, 31 March. Please join us again for zazen (seated meditation) starting at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 1 April.

We’ll have a short memorial for this most-famous of Buddhist women, Buddha’s aunt, who raised him after his mother died shortly after giving birth. She was also the first woman arhat , and it was she whose patient persistence led to the founding of the order for female renunciates, the order of Bhikṣūṇīs. There’ll be zazen (seated meditation) as usual at 9:30, followed by the Dharma talk at 10:30, with the ceremony right after. And of course, tea and cookies in the living room or possibly the garden will be available for all, after the zendō events. Everyone is welcome!

Please join us for a Dharma talk by Rev. Koshin Steven Tierney, a Dharma transmitted teacher in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi. Steven is the guiding %⅙ at Oceans Compassion Zen Community, Meditation in Recovery Sangha at SFZC and the SFLGBTQA+ Sangha. Rev. Tierney is currently the president of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association. Dr. Tierney is a psychotherapist in private practice and Professor Emeritus in Counseling Psychology at CIIS. He has been integrating meditation, mindfulness, and breath-based wellness initiatives since 1995. For further information: Steventierneysf@gmail.com.

Please join us this Saturday morning at 10:30 for a Dharma talk by Rev. McCormick, who was ordained to the Nichiren-shū (Lotus Sutra School) ministry in 2001 by Rev. Ryusho Matsuda, of the San Jose Nichiren Temple. Rev. McCormick is also a long-time practitioner of zazen (seated meditation) and a student of the writings of Dōgen-zenji. We’ll have zazen at 9:30 as usual, and our beloved tea-and-cookies afterwards. Everyone is welcome.