As covid continues to do its rounds in the student and priest population residing at HSZC, Issan-ji temple please join us on zoom and remember if there is no listed guest or alternate speaker on Saturdays it is the Abbot, Rev . Myō Lahey.
16 July – Rev Shuji, Jeff Thomas offered talk
Please join us for a talk this Saturday by Rev. Shuji, Jeff Thomas. Rev Shuji is a long time HSZC sangha member, Board of Director, former resident student. He was ordained at Issan-Ji, HSZC through our Abbot, Rev. Myō Lahey in April of 2018.
Unfortunately we are still only offering zoom attendance due to covid positive infection inside the resident student and priest community of HSZC at this time.
Please join us online. The schedule is 9:30 zazen (you can log into the conference starting at 9am to socialize) for 40 minutes and a Dharma talk at 10:30am, followed by Q&A as well as an opportunity to check in and see how you are doing after that. Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.
Online Zoom attendance only for now
* * * * Happy 4th of July! * * * *
Please have a safe and enjoyable holiday. Issan-ji Temple/HSZC will be closed July 2nd through the 4th, reopening the 5th of July in observance of this holiday.
William Ralph Emerson — A Nation’s Strength —
What makes a nation’s pillars high
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that round it throng
And its foundations strong
It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand
Go down in battle shock;
Its shafts are laid on sinking sand,
Not on abiding rock.
Is it the sword? Ask the red dust
Of empires passed away;
The blood has turned their stones to rust,
Their glory to decay.
And is it pride? Ah, that bright crown
Has seemed to nations sweet;
But God has struck its luster down
In ashes at his feet.
Not gold but only men can make
A people great and strong;
Men who for truth and honor’s sake
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly…
They build a nation’s pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.
LGBTQ+ PRIDE SATURDAY – 25 June 2022 – Dharma talk by Rev. Koshin, Steven Tierney
Please join us for a Dharma talk Saturday by Koshin Steven Tierney, Ed.D. LPCC, who is Professor Emeritus of Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as well as a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco. Steven has been studying and practicing Buddhism for more than 25 years and was ordained by Michael Wenger in 2013, serving as Shuso in 2014.
Steven’s commitment is to a community-based Buddhism and he has spent the last twenty years extending Buddha’s teachings to those living with addictions, in recovery and those facing serious physical and mental health challenges. A certified addiction specialist, he is the Co-Founder of the San Francisco Mindfulness Foundation providing training, consultation, psychotherapy mindfulness-based mental health services to individuals and families.
Join us for zazen (seated meditation), with the talk to follow, we offer in-person distanced attendance; We also will continue to offer a Zoom web conferencing for video and/or audio presence for the scheduled events. 9:30 zazen (you can log into the conference starting at 9am to socialize) for 40 minutes and a Dharma talk at 10:30am, followed by Q&A as well as an opportunity to check in and see how you are doing and tea and cookies in person after that. Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.
Interested in walking in SF’s LGBTQ+ pride parade with other zen practitioners with or without HSZC t-shirt? Visit here for more details.
Congratulations Rev. Myō!
20 years at Issan-ji temple (HSZC) in a few days, and a recent anniversary having you just a few years shy from 40 years since Priest Ordination!
Interested in walking in the SF LGBTQ+ Pride Parade with fellow Zen Practitioners with or without HSZC gear on? Please visit here for details.
LGBTQ+ Pride month is “Marching” on & join us @ HSZC/Issan-ji this month & even march in the parade!
We have been kindly invited to join the SFZC parade contingent of the SF LGBT+ Parade Sunday, June 26th 2022, Historically it has been acceptable if you wish, to wear an HSZC/Issan-ji temple t-shirt to promote our temple too if you own any from the past few designs that have been developed.
Please both join us this month @ Issan-ji to continue to be a part of one of the world’s only and longest running Buddhist spaces with a particular focus as it was founded and still is primarily attended and funded for and by the LGBT+ community & walk in the parade.
Here are details if you wish to join the march/walk and if you intend to go or can serve as a safety monitor please let us know so we can let SFZC organizers know.
As of now, below are the full details on the march/parade we have and more to come, also please for more and to notify SFZC email: tetsugen.keido@yahoo.com (Keido) to get updates and he can advise SFZC of your attendance.
“We will gather at 300 Page Street at 9:30 a.m. and take Muni together to the spot assigned to our contingent. If people prefer to meet us there, I will send our contingent number and meet-up location once we receive that information. We’ll have a truck for those who’d like to ride rather than walk and will be decorating the truck while we wait to begin marching. The theme of this year’s parade is Love Will Keep Us Together. Some of us will be wearing robes or other Zen clothing, others of us will be dressing creatively. You are welcome to create banners. Here’s a link to the parade website. We’ll need some volunteers to be contingent monitors (for safety); SF Pride provides a brief online training for that role.”
HAPPY LGBT+ / Gay Pride Month 2022!
A special happy pride month as we still continue to crawl out of the pandemic. There is an opportunity for Issan-ji/HSZC Sangha to march/walk in the Pride Parade the last Sunday of June with sfzc. More details to come.
Otherwise and in addition, have a very joy-filled month celebrating who you are and who you love and the progress our community has made since these events began and the many years prior.
