Ready to “tie the knot”?
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!
Sangha Council, July 20th
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!
20 July 2013: Guest Speaker, Rev. Jisan Tova Green
Please come and join us this Saturday for a Dharma talk by Tova Green. Priest-ordained by Green Gulch Farm Abbess Jiko Linda-Ruth Cutts, Tova presently lives at Beginner’s Mind Temple at 300 Page St. and is a former director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, leads the Queer Dharma group at SFZC and is serving as Vice President of SFZC. A regular past speaker at HSZC it has been since August 2012 since we have had her give a talk at Hartford Street.
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.
July 20 – for the Obon Holiday
HSZC Sangha Newsletter July 9-23
July 13th: Guest Speaker – Laura Burges
Laura Burges is a lay entrusted teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. A teacher of children for 27 years, her work has been featured in the PBS special The Digital Divide and in the book Teach Our Children Well. She is active in bringing mindfulness practices into elementary classrooms. Laura co-founded the Sangha in Recovery program at the San Francisco Zen Center and lectures and leads retreats at different practice centers in Northern California.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.
July 4th’s Pratītyasamutpāda
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!