Calendar

10:30 am to 12 noon
Every Sunday at 10:30am we meditate together for 30 minutes, followed by a talk or discussion till 12 noon. Everyone is then welcome to stay and socialize over refreshments till approximately 12:30, after which those who are interested usually go somewhere local for lunch. Our sittings are held at the San Francisco Buddhist Center,37 Bartlett Street.(Look for the red door near 21st St between Mission and Valencia Streets).

MUNI: 14 Mission or 49 Van Ness-Mission, alight at 21st St, walk 1/2block.

BART:24th and Mission,walk 31/2 blocks.

PARKING:on street (meters free on Sundays) or in adjacent New Mission Bartlett Garage.

The Center is handicapped accessible.

Guest speakers

September 5th! Helen Seward
Helen Seward has been a Zen student for the last 26 years. She is a member of the Stone Creek Zen Center of Sebastopol. For! eight years, Helen had been a volunteer for the Buddhist Peace Fellowship Prison Project writing letters and sending books to inmates. When B.P.F. terminated their Prison Project, she helped form Dharma Companions, a volunteer organization that sends Buddhist books, magazines and tapes to inmates.

September 12th! Anthony Rodgers
Anthony Rodgers is finishing up the DPP program at Spirit Rock this spring, and he volunteers weekly with Zen Hospice. Anthony did the caregiver training last spring, and Zen Hospice feels like!his sangha these days. He is also doing the Buddhist Chaplaincy Training at the Sati Center in Redwood City and he just started a masters program towards a degree in Buddhist Studies at the Graduate Theological Union/Institute of Buddhist Studies.

September 19th! Susan Moon
Susan Moon is a writer and teacher and for many years was the editor of Turning Wheel, the journal of socially engaged Buddhism. She is the author of The Life and! Letters of Tofu Roshi, a humor book about an imaginary Zen master, and editor of Not Turning Away: The Practice of Engaged Buddhism. Her short stories and essays have been published widely. Her new book, This is Getting Old:! Zen Thoughts on Aging with Dignity and Humor, is forthcoming from Shambhala in June, 2010. Sue 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 now with Zoketsu Norman Fischer’s Everyday Zen sangha. She received “entrustment” as a lay teacher in 2005. She is the mother of two grown sons and the grandmother of Paloma.

September 26th! All Sangha Meeting