Hartford Street Zen Center | Issan-ji temple
A Sōtō Zen temple for the LGBTQ+ community, friends and allies in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood
Please join us on Saturday, 22 June, at 10:15 a.m. for a Way-Seeking Mind Talk by our Sangha member, Shindo Nick Strzelczyk. These talks are an opportunity to share a practitioner’s story of how the many turns of a life-path have led to the practice of the Buddha Way. There will be zazen (seated meditation) as usual at 9:25 a.m., and as always there will be tea-and-cookies afterwards in the living room. Everyone is welcome…
Come and hear a Dharma talk this Saturday by our friend Rev. Peter, a long-time Zen practitioner and business owner, and a Dharma heir of Rev. Zoketsu Norman Fischer. There will be seated meditation (zazen) as usual at 9:25 a.m., and tea-and-cookies in the living room following the 10:15 a.m. talk. Everyone is welcome.
Please join us for a Dharma talk by Rev. Steven, priest-ordained by Rev. Dairyu Michael Wenger, and who is a psychotherapist and frequent consultant to 12-step programs, as well as group facilitator for our Issan-ji Sangha (community of practitioners). We’ll have zazen (seated meditation) as usual at 9:25, with the talk to follow, and afterwards tea and cookies will be on offer in the living room. Everyone is welcome!
Rev. Liên is a Dharma Heir of Zenkei Blanche Hartman in the tradition of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, she began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition of Spirit Rock. She is a founding member of the Buddhists of Color in 1998. Her Soto Zen training began at Tassajara monastery where she lived from 2002-2005, after which she practiced monastically in Japan, Thailand and Vietnam. Based at San Francisco Zen Center, Liên also teaches at East Bay Meditation Center and other Bay Area groups.
Please join us for zazen (seated meditation) at 9:25 a.m., with the talk to follow. Afterwards there will be tea-and-cookies and discussion in the living room. Everyone is welcome.
