Upcoming

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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.

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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

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Saturday October 5, 10:15am – Guest Speaker: Zachary Smith – Anshi Daigi

1212Please join us this Saturday for a Guest Speaker (and our normal Saturday program). Anshi Daigi – Zachary Smith  “has been practicing since 1993, took jukai in 1995, and was shuso under SFZC former Abbot Paul Haller in Fall of 2007. He currently directs North Mountain Zendo, a zazenkai group in North Beach. In addition to his involvement with Zen, Zachary is a husband and father (of 4), an engineer, a musician, a bike fanatic, and an avid but mediocre poet. He may be the only person in the history of Zen in the West to have interrupted a residential practice period to tour with a rock band”

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 this Saturday and we hope to see you often!

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New Tuesday Evening Group @ HSZC for Women

Quan_Yin_Eight02Women’s Sangha — an open group for women every Tuesday at 7:00pm

Join us this Tuesday, September 24th, for thirty minute meditation and a short Dharma talk led by our guest teacher Dana Kojun Hull. Visit our Facebook page for more details on Kojun and her work. Beginners welcome.

Oct 1:  Lien Shutt
Oct 8:  Konin Cardenas
Oct 15:  TBA
Oct 22:  Jana Drakka