Study Hour Thurs. July 7 at 7:00pm. We
continue reading The Record of Transmitting
the Light by Master Keizan, and we have books
to share, as we study together our ancestors in
the Buddha Way.
July 4th Weekend – Zendo CLOSED
We’ll be taking a brief vacation the weekend of the July 4th holiday. The zendo (meditation hall) will be closed on Saturday, 2 July, and also on Monday the 4th itself. Our regularly-scheduled activities will resume with 6 a.m. zazen (seated meditation) on Tuesday, 5 July. Have a good and safe holiday, everyone!
New HSZC Flickr Group is Online!
Now, everyone can share their pictures and videos of the temple, events, ceremonies, and gatherings with everyone else in the sangha! All you have to do is add your pictures to the group, and they will show up for everyone to see, including as part of the slideshow on the hszc.org website.
Be sure to tag the photos with accurate information so they can be searched and sorted (ALL group photos should be tagged “hszc” and “hartford street zen center”). For example, pictures of a celebration of Buddha’s Enlightenment at Issan-ji should be tagged “buddha’s enlightenment”, “event”, and “issanji”, in addition to the basic tags “hszc” and “hartford street zen center”. You can add these tags to many photos at the same time with the “batch edit” tool.
Just click on the link below the slideshow pictures on the left sidebar, and add away! If you don’t have a Flickr account, you can get one for free with 300Mb per month.
Guest Speaker, Saturday 25 June: Laurie Senauke
Come and join us this Saturday, June 25, for a Dharma talk by Laurie Senauke, a long-time practitioner from the Berkeley Zen Center. A warm and engaging speaker, Laurie has received Lay Entrustment from Abbot Sojun Mel Weitsman, in addition to being a wife and mother. We’ll have zazen at 9:25, with the talk following at 10:15, and then a vegetarian potluck celebrating Pride weekend afterwards. Please bring something healthy and preferably vegan to share with everyone.
Fleeing the Intimidating Qualities of Liberation (Rev. Myo Lahey) HSZC Dharma Talk, 06/18/2011
SF Suicide Prevention Workshop, Tues. June 28, 4-5:30pm
Hartford Street Zen Center will host a Suicide Prevention Workshop on Tues. June 28 from 4:00 – 5:30pm. The workshop is organized in partnership with San Francisco Suicide Prevention and is open to all sangha members.
The workshop is focused on identifying the anxiety and depression that may sometimes lead to suicide as well as developing the communication skills and crisis-intervention techniques necessary to help someone at risk of committing suicide. If you are unable to attend, please visit How to Help Someone on the sfsuicide.org website.
Please share/like this announcement with your friends and colleagues,
and please RSVP on the workshop’s Facebook event page.
Note: evening zazen will follow the workshop at 6:00pm.
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HSZC Marching in SF Pride Parade! VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
The Hartford Street Zen Center sangha is marching in the San Francisco Pride Parade! To join us, please meet at San Francisco Zen Center (300 Page Street) Sunday, June 26 at 9:00am.
We encourage you to wear the HSZC Pride Parade T-shirt, an older HSZC design, or something in a shade of lavender. Hope to see you there!
HSZC needs volunteer Contingent Monitors to train for PRIDE!
Contingent Monitors are volunteers/staff members who will walk with HSZC, Queer Dharma and SFZC along the parade route acting as chaperones for our contingent.
There are three trainings left on June 22nd, 23rd & 24th.
* Contingent Monitors need only attend the first hour during one of the following training sessions.
* In addition to attending one of the training sessions, please let Rev. Myo know that you will be one of our Contingent Monitors.
Contingent Monitor & Safety Training
Wednesday, June 22
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
The San Francisco LGBT Community Center
1800 Market Street, San Francisco
Thursday, June 23
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
The San Francisco LGBT Community Center
1800 Market Street, San Francisco
Friday, June 24
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Larkin Hall
99 Grove Street, SF
* Advance registration is not required. Please arrive on-time to prevent
being turned away from the training session. All training sites are
wheelchair accessible.