Calendar

  • Full Moon Ceremony (Hybrid)

    Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United States

    The Full Moon Ceremony acknowledges the karma created by our intentional actions, and reminds us to renew our commitment to the ethical conduct expressed as the 16 Bodhisattva Precepts. These are guiding principles for our daily conduct in the world. This ceremony is rooted in a ritual from pre-Buddhist India. To prepare for the ceremony […]

  • Dharma Talk by Susan Moon (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)

    Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United States

    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 […]

  • Dharma Talk by Meikyo Bob Rosenbaum (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)

    Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United States

    Meikyo Robert Rosenbaum, PhD. received lay entrustment in Soto Zen from Sojun Mel Weitsman. He is also authorized as a senior teacher of the Taoist practice of Dayan (Wild Goose) Qigong in the lineage of Yang Meijun by Master Hui Liu. In addition, he has received denkai in Ordinary Mind Zen from Karen Terzano. Bob […]

  • Dharma Talk by Kristin Diggs (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)

    Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United States

    Kristin Diggs is a Soto Zen priest in the Suzuki Roshi lineage. She trained residentially for eight and a half years at Green Gulch, Tassajara, and the San Francisco City Center, beginning in 2014. She was lay ordained by Tenshin Reb Anderson in 2017 and priest ordained by Eijun Linda Cutts in 2021. She served […]

  • Dharma Talk by Hoka Chris Fortin (Hybrid, Speaker on Zoom)

    Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United States

    This evening we welcome guest teacher, Chris Fortin, a Soto Zen teacher who began practicing Buddhism in 1976 while living at the San Francisco Zen Center. After many years of practice she received Dharma Transmission from Zoketsu Norman Fischer of Everyday Zen, in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Chris founded Dharma Heart Zen to share the path […]

  • Dharma Talk by Kristin Diggs (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)

    Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United States

    Kristin Diggs is a Soto Zen priest in the Suzuki Roshi lineage. She trained residentially for eight and a half years at Green Gulch, Tassajara, and the San Francisco City Center, beginning in 2014. She was lay ordained by Tenshin Reb Anderson in 2017 and priest ordained by Eijun Linda Cutts in 2021. She served […]

  • Dharma Talk by Rev. So’on Jim Hare (Hybrid, Speaker in Person)

    Valley Streams Zen Sangha 3111 Wisseman Dr., Sacramento, CA, United States

    Rev. 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 1985. He served as Head Student at Green Gulch Farm during the spring 2002 practice period, and was priest ordained by Rev. Myo Lahey […]