Please join us for our bi-monthly half-day sitting. At the conclusion of the sitting, we will enjoy a social lunch together, so please bring a bag lunch.
Join SDC for its Second Annual Interdependence Day party, Saturday, July 8, 2017, from 2 to 4 p.m.  A celebration of our donors, volunteers, and the greater Sangha that makes our existence possible!  Enjoy some ice cream and shaved ice, take part in our raffle, and listen to some far out music as we mark the 50th […]
Several sangha practice leaders will present Buddha's Teachings on Social & Communal Harmony after studying with Hozan Alan Senauke, of Berkeley Zen Center.
Rev. Kyosho Valorie Beer is an itinerant teacher for SF Zen Center's Branching Streams sanghas. She received dharma transmission from Edward Brown in 2013. In addition to leading retreats, Valorie is a teacher for sewing Buddha's Robe, sutra copying, practicing with aging, and writing as a spiritual practice.
The ‘way-seeking-mind talk’, gives a sangha member the opportunity to tell dharma friends the story of how we came to Zen practice.  It usually emphasizes two aspects - the suffering and the fortuitous circumstances that brought us here.
Zazen surfaces our "mind of clover," a pliant mind, a flexibile mind, a mind like clouds and water. Â This mind that is not "our" mind, but rather one that comes to us as a gift of practice. Â Informed by that mind we are inspired to be kind, to be flexible with others, to bend like […]