'Women Teachers Known and Unknown,
Remembered Through These Names.'
With Marcia Lieberman and Jisan Anna Thorn
Six Mondays, January 30 – March 6, 8:00am – 8:50am
City Center

Learn more:
sfzc.org/calendar/event…
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Image: Marcia Lieberman

'Meditation Training Practice Day'
with Keiryu Liên Shutt
February 4, 2023 / 9:00am - 3:00pm
In Person at City Center

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sfzc.org/calendar/event…

Saturday One-Day Sitting
With Ryushin Paul Haller
Saturday, January 28, 5:25am – 6:00pm PT
City Center & Online

One-day sittings offer traditional Soto Zen all-day meditation practice.

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An Interview with Author Laura Burges

Laura Burges’s first children’s book, Buddhist Stories for Kids: Jataka Tales of Kindness, Friendship, and Forgiveness, (now out on Shambhala).

Read more on SFZC Blog:
blogs.sfzc.org/blog/2022/12/0…
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Image: Nova Ray

'Women Teachers Known and Unknown,
Remembered Through These Names.'
With Marcia Lieberman and Jisan Anna Thorn
Six Mondays, January 30 – March 6, 8:00am – 8:50am
City Center

Learn more:
sfzc.org/calendar/event…

Image: Marcia Lieberman

Saturday One-Day Sitting
w/ Ryushin Paul Haller
Saturday, 1/28/23
City Center & Online

One-day sittings offer traditional Soto Zen all-day meditation practice.

Learn more:
sfzc.org/calendar/event…

SFZC Conference Center Now Available for Rental

San Francisco Zen Center is pleased to announce the reopening of our meeting space at 308 Page Street in Hayes Valley. Reserve the Conference Center for your next event.

Learn more:
sfzc.org/practice-cente…

Image: Florian Brody

'Meditation Training Practice Day'
with Keiryu Liên Shutt
February 4, 2023 / 9:00am - 3:00pm
In Person at City Center

Learn more:
sfzc.org/calendar/event…

Join fully ordained bhikkhuni and Dharma transmitted teacher Ayya Dhammadīpā for this whirlwind tour of the Buddhist world.

'Introduction to Buddhism'
with Ayya Dhammadīpā

Learn more:
sfzc.teachable.com/p/introduction…

Image: MARDOK

Dharma Talk: Caverly Morgan
Saturday, January 7, 10:00am — 11:30am PT
City Center & Online

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Image: Jennifer Alyse

Want to learn how to meditate? Or have you tried at different times but just can’t quite figure out how to make it work for you?

'Meditation Training: Establishing a Meditation Practice'
Online 1/5 - 1/26
With Keiryu Liên Shutt

Register:
sfzc.org/calendar/event…

The great temple bell rings
one hundred eight times—
May there be peace!
— Mitsu Suzuki

Come ring in the New Year online with the Green Gulch Farm Sangha!
*In-Person SOLD OUT*
*Online Participation Available*

Learn more:
sfzc.org/calendar/event…

Image: Shundo David Haye

New Year’s Eve at City Center
On Saturday, December 31 ending January 1st
Come together with sangha to usher in the new year!

Covid Health and Safety protocols apply:

For more info:
sfzc.org/calendar/event…

Chef Deborah Madison Thinks It Pays to Be More Tolerant. Read more at link below as she reflects on her experience cooking—and creating community—at the San Francisco Zen Center.

Read more:
tricycle.org/article/chef-d…

Photo by Peter Wendt

Winter Clothing Drive: 12/1/22-1/31/23: Zen Center will be collecting winter coats and outerwear for distribution at Martin de Porres House of Hospitality.
Please leave donations at our drop off bins at the City Center lobby.

Learn more at: martindeporres.org

Wishing you the warm of the season.

SFZC Holiday Hours:
City Center and the Online Zendo will be closed 12/23 through 12/26, and Green Gulch Farm will be closed on 12/26. There will be no Sangha News on 12/29.

Image: Chris Shelton

Congratulations Fall 2022 Shusos!

Read more on the SFZC Blog:
blogs.sfzc.org/blog/2022/12/1…

“Suzuki Roshi’s legacy thrives today because of the thousands of people who have been touched by the Dharma and who hold SFZC in their hearts.” Central Abbot Ed Sattizahn

Please consider donating to our Year End Campaign.

giving.sfzc.org/give/421393/#!…

Winter Solstice Ceremony
at City Center
On December 21, 2022 / 6:40am - 7:05am

Ceremony follows morning zazen.
Words of the season are offered during this ceremony; you are welcome to bring a poem or reading.

Covid Health and Safety protocols apply

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Zachary Smith, a SFZC priest, joined and spoke at the SF Brahma Kumari Center for their interfaith celebration of Diwali, the festival of light.

Read more:

blogs.sfzc.org/blog/2022/12/0…

Image: Tova Green