2027 Tassajara Winter Practice Period, ZMC 1/6–3/31
The 117th Practice Period at Tassajara Led by Ryushin Paul Haller January 6–March 31, 2027 Application due date is Friday, November 27, 2026 Ango (Practice Period) offers a rare opportunity ...
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Green Gulch Farm Spring 2027 Three-Week Practice Period: More Wonder. Less Fear, GGF 3/11–4/5
Thursday, March 11, 3:00 pm—Monday, April 5, 11:00 am Three-Week Practice Period at Green Gulch Farm is an opportunity for beginning and experienced students to participate in an intense period of residential practice that centers around daily zazen, work practice, study, and one-on-one meetings with the teacher. Weekly events include lectures, formal ceremonies, classes, and ...
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Meditation in Recovery, Friday weekly meeting, Online
OnlineMeditation in Recovery will be meeting by Zoom. Friday Nights at 7:30 - Join Online Meeting - Meeting ID: 886 966 3311 - Passcode: Meditate23 - Please join us at the usual time; log in five minutes before the meeting opens. Fridays, 7:30 – 9 pm - This drop-in group explores the connections between Buddhist ...
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Zazen (Meditation) Instruction, CC
City CenterSaturday, 8:40 – 9:25 am, in the Buddha Hall at City Center - Please arrive by 8:30 am. Zazen (Meditation) Instruction is offered by senior practitioners and is required before ...
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Saturday Sangha
City CenterWeekly meeting: Saturdays, 8:50 am – 1:00 pm. Saturday Sangha is for anyone who joins the zazen schedule during the weekdays and/or on Saturday. Within the container of traditional forms, ...
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Nine Marvelous Qigong Methods, Online 3/6–4/10
Saturdays, March 6–April 10, 9:00–10:30 am PT Are you looking for comprehensive, formal Qigong training? Enter the heart of Qigong practice by learning the Nine Marvelous Qigong Methods (九妙法门) of ...
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Uji and Time-Being, Online 3/6–3/20
Three Saturdays, March 6–20, 9:00–11:00 am PT Time can feel fleeting, relentless, or surprisingly spacious. Our conventional sense that nothing lasts shapes our relationship with time, sometimes bringing a sense of urgency or unease. We interpret impermanence as change, and we resist it. In Uji, Dogen encourages us to see time from a radically unique ...
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Dancing with Chronic Illness and Pain: Ongoing Group, Online 12/19–5/15
Monthly, Saturdays, December 19–May 15, 11:00–12:30 pm PT If you have previously participated in any of the “Dancing in the Dark Fields” series, we invite you to consider this ongoing monthly practice group, which will expand on those teachings and community. Zenshin Florence Caplow, who will be teaching the class, has "danced" with auto-immune illness ...
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Zendo (Meditation Hall) Forms Instruction, CC
City CenterSaturday, 11:20 am – 12:15 pm - Please arrive by 11:10 am and enter by the side door on Laguna Street. Zendo (Meditation Hall) Forms Instruction is offered by senior practitioners and is required before participation in a one-day sitting. Zazen (Meditation) Instruction is offered at 8:40 am and should be attended before Forms Instruction.
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Ancestral Presence: Zen Practice as Family Healing, Online 3/15–3/22
Two Mondays, March 15–22, 6:00–8:00 pm PT - A new offering from the SFZC Family Sangha - This two-part online series invites exploration into the intersection of Zen practice, ancestral memory, and the liberation of our personal and collective family systems. During our time together, we will frame family practice as a radical form of ...
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Meditation in Recovery, CC weekly meeting, Online/Onsite
City CenterMeditation in Recovery will meet in a hybrid format—In person AND on Zoom— each Monday. Monday Nights at 7:30 - Join Online Meeting - Meeting ID: 886 966 3311 - ...
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Transforming Depression and Anxiety Practice Group, Online 2/23–5/4
Alternate Tuesdays, February 23–May 4, 5:30–7:30 pm PT - In SFZC’s Transforming Depression and Anxiety offerings, kindness, mindfulness, and tools from contemporary psychology are engaged to shift our relationship with depression, anxiety, and their companions, judgment and self-criticism. These offerings include the core TDA course, offered in January, Transforming Depression and Anxiety: A Path of ...
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Young Urban Zen
City CenterYUZ meets in person weekly in the Buddha Hall of City Center on 300 Page Street. For the latest information, visit the Young Urban Zen site. Tuesday evenings, 7:15 – ...
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Treatise on Awakening Mahayana Faith, Online 3/17–4/21
Six Wednesdays, March 17–April 21, 5:30–7:00 pm PT - Treatise on Awakening Mahayana Faith is text of unknown origin. It appeared in China in the sixth century, around the time of Bodhidharma, and quickly became very influential for all schools of Chinese and Japanese Buddha-Dharma, especially Huayan, Tiantai, and Chan (Zen). It harmonizes the Indian ...