This is our first one-day sitting at the Sacramento Dharma Center! Fall study period participants should make a special effort to attend, as this is the sole opportunity to "sit long" during the study period. Of course everyone is welcome. This gentle one-day sitting will include a work period and exercise period. We will have […]
Members of Sacramento Insight Meditation, Valley Streams Zen Sangha, and Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group are invited to come together for our Opening Celebration. Each Sangha will contribute a message or ritual of blessing our new space. We will sit together, celebrate, and enjoy refreshments.
We continue our study of the Bodhisattva’s four methods of guidance: giving, kind speech, beneficial action, and identity action. Download text in PDF.
For those who are new to Zen meditation, we offer this 40-minute introduction on the second Monday every month.
Rev. Myo Lahey is our guiding teacher and abbot of Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco. Fall study period ends.
The ceremony is an affirmation of the vow to live for the benefit of all beings.
To celebrate the life and practice of Kogan Fukuden - Ancient vow, Field of Blessing May 20, 1940 - October 10, 2016
Retreat night consists of three 25-minute sitting periods with walking meditation in between - a time to sit quietly with no interruptions. With Rohatsu we observe the enlightenment of the historical Buddha.
Susan Moon is a writer, editor, and lay teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. She has been a Zen student since 1976, practicing in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi at Berkeley Zen Center, Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery, Green Gulch Farm, and with Zoketsu Norman Fischer’s Everyday Zen sangha. She received “entrustment” as a lay teacher […]
For those who are new to Zen meditation, we offer this 40-minute introduction on the second Monday every month.
Rev. Myo Lahey is our guiding teacher and abbot of Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco.