Pilgrimage to Japan, presented by So On Jim Hare & Un Jo Karen Hamilton
Jim and Karen will relate their impressions of temple life and traditional Japanese arts encountered during their recent trip to Japan.
Jim and Karen will relate their impressions of temple life and traditional Japanese arts encountered during their recent trip to Japan.
On Retreat Night you have an opportunity to settle into your meditation practice with three 25-minute periods of zazen, interspersed with walking meditation (called kinhin). Turning the light inward we […]
So On Jim Hare serves as tanto, or head of practice. He lived in the San Francisco Zen Center community from 1980 to 1984, and was lay ordained by Tenshin […]
Sangha member, Linda Dekker, will lead us in an evening of reading and writing poetry.
This ceremony reminds us that enlightenment is enacted with Bodhisattva precepts, which are recited in a call and response format during the ceremony. We enter the ceremony following two periods of […]
Reading "A Field Far Beyond Form & Emptiness", by Tenshin Reb Anderson. (in Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains, SFZC, 1995)
Our Monday night programs begin with zazen (sitting meditation) followed by a devotional service and dharma talk, group discussion, practice circle or retreat night. There are no membership requirements to […]
Our Monday night programs begin with zazen (sitting meditation) followed by a devotional service and dharma talk, group discussion, practice circle or retreat night. There are no membership requirements to […]
Our Monday night programs begin with zazen (sitting meditation) followed by a devotional service and dharma talk, group discussion, practice circle or retreat night. There are no membership requirements to […]
Our guiding teacher from Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco. Monday night programs begin with zazen (sitting meditation) followed by a devotional service and dharma talk, group discussion, practice […]