We welcome our guiding teacher from Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco.

Tonight we get a 2 for 1: Doralee Grindler Katonah and Oscar Balaguer will share experiences they had during the recent 3-week winter intensive practice period at Green Gulch Farm, led by Senior Dharma teacher Reb Anderson.

Hozan Alan Senauke, Vice Abbot of Berkeley Zen Center, will guide us through a presentation and discussion as we work with our Diversity Statement. Hozan was ordained at Berkeley Zen Center in 1989 and received Dharma Transmission from Sojun Roshi in 1998. He brings a global perspective on socially-engaged Buddhism and Zen as a force for positive […]

Doralee will introduce Dogen Zenji’s text "Raihai Tokuzui: Bowing and Acquiring the Essence" from the Shobogenzo. (translated by Ven. Anzan Hoshin roshi and Yasuda Joshu Dainen roshi.)

We welcome our guiding teacher from Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco.

Since Rev. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel is not able to be with us, we will listen to a recorded dharma talk by her.  As an author and ordained Soto Zen Buddhist priest, she combines Zen meditation, intuitive knowing, and indigenous wisdom in a path of liberation. Download the first chapters of her book:  The Way of Tenderness. (6 MB)

KyoJi Linda Dekker serves as Ino, or head of the meditation hall. She served on the first Valley Streams Board of Directors. Linda was lay ordained by Tenshin Reb Anderson in 2001 and lived at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center 2003 - 2004. She is currently on the board of the Sacramento Dharma Center and is its Office Manager.

On our winter theme: What we have learned about how we are conditioned to separate ourselves.