Please join us for early morning silent meditation each Thursday before Study Group meeting. Contact Rollin Ives at twl4148@gmail.com for Zoom login and program information. Morning Schedule: 5:45-Zoom room opens 6:00-Zazen […]
The Zen Study Group is temporarily meeting online only. The study group is facilitated by Rev. So-On Jim Hare, with readings from ancient and contemporary Mahayana Buddhist & Soto Zen texts […]
On the second Monday of each month, we offer a 40-minute introduction to Zen practice. We focus on the art of sitting meditation, with emphasis on posture, breath and mental […]
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 […]
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 Anderson in […]
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 […]
This ceremony is an affirmation of the vow to live for the benefit of all beings. In the Zen tradition we associate the full moon with the ideal of awakening. […]