Hartford Street Zen Center | Issan-ji temple
A Sōtō Zen temple for the LGBTQ+ community, friends and allies in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood
Saturday October 12, 2013 we will have an altered schedule for this one day from our normal weekly routine. We will have one single 9:25am zazen period followed by and in-depth Issan-Ji Temple Samu day.
We invite our Sangha to come and sit this period and if available and willing, help us deeply cleanse our temple and our twisted Karma all at once.
Please 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!
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!
Women’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
Ayya Santacitta of Aloka Vihara relates nature and the current state of the environment to Buddhist practice and the support of sangha.
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Once again, Hartford Street Zen Center has been chosen as one of the organizations to benefit from the proceeds of the fair. More volunteers means more proceeds. Be a cheerleader for HSZC and volunteer for a four hour shift, doing anything from safety, to production assistant, to staffing the gates. Give the gift of your time. Flexible shifts and all volunteers will receive a gift bag from Whole Foods Company. Registration is simple and easy on eventbrite. Volunteer today. For questions contact the volunteer coordinator at terrikota@gmail.com
