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Outreach Program Book Sale, CC 6/22-7/1/13
Saturday, June 22, 2013
and continuing through the following week, City Center will be offering our semi-annual book sale to benefit our outreach programs.


Dharma en Español
El grupo “Dharma en Español” se reúne todos los sábados excepto cuando hay "sesshin"* :

de las 11:00 am hasta el mediodía en el salón de arte, “Art Lounge.”

Todos podemos gozar de la energía del grupo si llegamos a tiempo.

Durante esa hora se leerá y comentará acerca del libro “Mente Zen, Mente de Principiante,” el importante texto de Shunryu Suzuki Roshi..



Ecological and Environmental Awareness Group
Next meeting:
TBA
6:30 - 7:30 pm

In the City Center Art Lounge

This new interest group is forming at San Francisco City Center to raise our awareness around environmental and ecological issues within the building, the neighborhood, and globally.



Family & Youth Activities

At City Center, we offer a range of programs geared toward children, family, and youth.



Meditation in Recovery

Meditation in Recovery at City Center and Hartford Street Zen Center



Outreach Activities

Outreach activities at City Center include distributing food to homeless people; providing dharma books, pen-pals, and meditation classes for prison inmates; working with families in transitional housing; enhancing cultural diversity within Zen Center; facilitating the formation of satellite sitting groups; and advocating for compassionate action on social issues. We welcome volunteers for Outreach activities.



Queer Dharma
The LGBTIQ Queer Dharma is an open group and newcomers are welcome. The group meets regularly (once a month) in the Buddha Hall at City Center.

Meeting time: Saturdays, 1 - 3 pm
Followed by Tea



Saturday Sangha
Saturdays 8:50 am - 1 pm

The Saturday Sangha is a group that meets each week to help care for the public program at City Center. Individuals in the group learn a variety of basic zendo jobs, sometimes help in the kitchen, and generally pitch in to help the Saturday program.



Sewing Buddha's Robe

This class is to assist those who have received permission from their teacher to sew a rakusu or okesa in preparation for receiving precepts and a robe in Jukai or Shukke Tokudo.



Transforming Depression and Anxiety: Drop-in Classes
Thursdays
6 to 7:30 pm
Practice classes are facilitated by Lee Lipp, Ph.D.
Conference Center, 308 Page Street

For those who have participated in the Transforming Depression and Anxiety basic introductory workshops. These 1½-hour practice classes are offered to those who are interested in fine-tuning the practices introduced in the basic skills workshops taught throughout the year at SFZC and at other venues.


Volunteer Program
Volunteering at City Center

From the identifiable beginnings of Zen, working together has been an integral part of our practice. Work is the way we bring this practice out of the meditation hall and into the world. It is one of the most important ways in which practitioners come together and begin to know one another intimately, forging the Sangha (community), which is one of Buddhism’s Three Treasures.



Young Urban Zen
Tuesday evenings, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Meet at Buddha Hall, 300 Page Street