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Guest Speaker: Rev. Ryuei Michael McCormick – Sat. March 3rd
Please join us this Saturday morning for a Dharma talk by Rev. Ryuei, Michael McCormick, who was ordained in the Nichiren-shū in 2001 by Rev. Ryusho Matsuda, of the San Jose Nichiren Temple.
Rev. McCormick is also a long-time practitioner of zazen (seated meditation) and a student of the writings of Dōgen-zenji.
Saturday Schedule (please join for any or all):
6:30am – Zazen
7:10 – Morning Service
7:25-7:35 – Soji
8:30 – Zazen Instruction (for beginners)
9:25 – Zazen
10:15 – Dharma Talk
11:00 – Sangha Tea Time
February 17, 2018 – Rev. Zenshin Greg Fain
Saturday, Feb. 17 Dharma Talk: Rev. Zenshin Greg Fain
Zenshin Greg Fain was ordained by Sojun Mel Weitsman in 2002, and received dharma transmission in 2012. Greg is married and serves as tanto (head of practice) at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Greg has been studying and practicing Yoga for the past six years, and now considers it an essential part of his daily practice. “The more I practice zazen (seated meditation) the more I realize how completely this is body practice, and how yoga supports the body to be present for the practice.”
February 10, 2018 – Rev. Myo Lahey
February 3, 2018 – Rabbi Jeremy D. Sher
Guest Speaker: Rabbi Jeremy D. Sher, M.Div. – February 3rd
From Organic Torah:
Rabbi Sher, a Jewish Renewal rabbi, serves as congregational rabbi for Ha-Emek: Honest, Inclusive, Progressive Judaism in Silicon Valley. Rabbi Jeremy works full-time as a chaplain at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute and University of California San Francisco Medical Center. An experienced nonprofit leader and a veteran of eight boards, he is the author of Growth through Governance: What Every Jewish Nonprofit Leader Needs to Know. He received his M.Div. degree from Harvard Divinity School, where he was Ministry Fellow and Harry Austryn Wolfson Fellow in Jewish Studies, and received the prestigious Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship to spend a year of field study in Israel. In 2016 he was ordained by his longtime teacher, Rabbi Natan Margalit. Prior to entering this field, he worked as the CEO for a software company.
For details, see the Saturday schedule