Please join us online while sangha members Richard Hicks and Omonivie Okhade lead our program to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Richard Hicks was […]

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 Reb […]

Guest teacher Shōku Kathy Early came to zen practice in 1994 through classes with Tenshin Reb Anderson at the Yoga Room in Berkeley. She then practiced for several years with Keido Les Kaye […]

Paravrtti Doralee Grindler Katonah serves as Ino, or head of the meditation hall, and president of our Board of Directors. She studied in the Soto Zen lineage with Sojun Diane Martin […]

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 Reb […]

On Retreat Night we offer an opportunity to settle into your meditation practice with two or three 25-minute periods of zazen, interspersed with walking meditation (called kinhin). Turning the light inward […]

Rev. Myo Lahey is Abbot at Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco and our guiding teacher. He has previously served as Practice Leader at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He is a Dharma heir of […]

This will be will be a short Dharma talk and small group discussion exploring Suzuki roshi’s saying: “even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva only […]

Rev. Kokyo Henkel has been practicing Zen since 1990 in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (most recently as Head of Practice), Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, No Abode Hermitage in Mill […]

In the Eihei Koroku, Dogen says, “When you build a pond naturally the moon will come.”   Come to our Practice Circle on The Precious Jewel of Sangha Life. Paravrtti Doralee […]