Calendar
Retreat Night
Retreat Night offers an opportunity to settle into your meditation practice with three 25-minute periods of zazen, interspersed with walking meditation (kinhin). Turning the light inward, we explore the causes of suffering and what ends it. This invitation is extended to everyone.
Potluck Supper with Susan Moon
You are invited to share a meal with the sangha prior to our evening sit and Dharma talk.
Dharma Talk by Susan Moon
Susan Moon is a writer, editor, and lay teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. She is the author of a number of books about Buddhism, including the humor book The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi and This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity. For many years she was the editor of Turning Wheel, the journal of […]
Winter Celebration & Refreshments
Welcome the new year by celebrating the treasure of sangha with your sangha! Please bring a finger food offering, and poetry, story, or music to share (if you wish).
Study Group
Study is one of the pillars of Zen practice. Please join us every Thursday morning for our ongoing study group to discuss ancient and contemporary texts. Facilitated by Rev. So On Jim Hare. Current text: TBA Contact Rollin Ives (twl4148@gmail.com) for details.
Practice Circle on “Resolution and Vow”
led by So On Jim Hare
Introduction to Zen Meditation
For those who are new to Zen meditation, we offer this 40-minute introduction to our forms of practice on the second Monday every month.
Dharma Talk by Rev. Mary Mocine (by recording)
Due to family illness, Rev. Mary Mocine will not be able to attend as planned. However, we will be able to hear her teaching on Death and Dying by listening to a recording made on January 13th at SBMG. She recommends reading this article in advance of listening to her talk. Reverend Mary Mocine, is abbess of […]
Program Inspired by Martin Luther King
led by Doralee Grindler Katonah.
Dharma Talk by Rev. Myo Lahey
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 Tenshin Reb Anderson. Rev. Myo is available for individual practice discussion by appointment prior to our evening program.