Calendar

Featured Onsite & Hybrid Offerings

With Srinivas Reddy
Friday, July 10, 7:30–9:00 pm, City Center

Saturday, July 11, 7:10–7:45 am PT, City Center and Livestreamed

With Jody Beavers and Emily Linders
Saturday, July 11, 1:30–3:30 pm, City Center

With Zoketsu Norman Fischer and Senior Everyday Zen Dharma teachers
Saturday, July 11, 9:00 am–5:00 pm, Green Gulch Farm

Please register by 12:00 pm PT on July 10

NOT POEMS! A free monthly Poetry Night at SF Zen Center

With Christopher Gallagher and Kevin Starbard
Friday May 17, 7:30–9 pm, City Center

Sunday, July 26,10–3 pm, City Center

Featured Online Offerings

With Shokuchi Deirdre Carrigan
Sunday July 5–Sunday, August 9

With Dōshin Dan Gudgel
Tuesday, July 7–Tuesday, Friday 28

With Bernd Bender
Two Saturdays, July 11–July 18, 9 am–11 am PT, Online

Friday, Aug 7, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
07:30 PM	Online	Meditation in Recovery, Friday weekly meeting, Online 8/7

Saturday, Aug 8, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
08:40 AM	City Center	Zazen (Meditation) Instruction, CC 8/8
08:50 AM	City Center	Saturday Sangha, 8/8
09:00 AM	Green Gulch Farm	All Day Sitting with Everyday Zen, GGF 8/8
10:00 AM	City Center	Saturday 10:00 am Dharma Talk: Zenshin Greg Fain, Livestream/Onsite 8/8
11:20 AM	City Center	Zendo (Meditation Hall) Forms Instruction, CC 8/8
01:00 PM	Online	Queer Dharma Group (topic/speaker: Kirk Phillips), Online 8/8

Sunday, Aug 9, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
09:00 AM	City Center	Building and Embodying a Compassion-Based Life: A Meditation in Recovery Daylong Retreat, CC 8/9
10:00 AM	Green Gulch Farm	Sunday 10:00am Dharma Talk: So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson, Livestream/Onsite 8/9
05:00 PM	Online	Sunday Sangha with Senior Dharma Teacher Fu Schroeder, 8/9

Monday, Aug 10, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
05:00 PM	Online	Suzuki Roshi’s Koan Commentaries with Abbot Jiryu, Online 8/10–8/31
07:30 PM	City Center	Meditation in Recovery, CC weekly meeting, Online/Onsite 8/10

Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
04:00 PM	Tassajara	How Does My Love for Life Want to Express Itself? A Sensory Awareness Workshop, ZMC 8/11–8/16
04:00 PM	Tassajara	Deep Rest in Zen and Yoga: Learning to Let Go, ZMC 8/11–8/16 – Waitlist Only
04:00 PM	Tassajara	Returning To Now-Sangha Week, ZMC 8/11–8/16 – Waitlist Only
07:15 PM	City Center	Young Urban Zen, 8/11

Wednesday, Aug 12, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
04:00 PM	Green Gulch Farm	The Reset Retreat: Bringing the Dharma to Work and Money, GGF 8/12–8/14

Thursday, Aug 13, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
05:30 PM	Online	Thursday Drop-in Practice Session, Online 8/13
07:00 PM	City Center	Informal Zazen & Speciality Tea, CC 8/13
07:00 PM	City Center	Trans Sangha, Sangha (Community) Night, CC 8/13

Friday, Aug 14, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
07:30 PM	Online	Meditation in Recovery, Friday weekly meeting, Online 8/14

Saturday, Aug 15, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
09:00 AM	Green Gulch Farm	Saturday One-Day Sitting, GGF 8/15
07:30 PM	Other	100 Light Years of Solitude, Butoh Performance, at Yugen Theatre, 8/15

Sunday, Aug 16, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
09:00 AM	City Center	Caregivers' Sitting, CC 8/16
10:00 AM	Green Gulch Farm	Sunday 10:00am Dharma Talk: Sessei Meg McNeil (Levie), Livestream/Onsite 8/16
05:00 PM	Online	Sunday Sangha with Senior Dharma Teacher Fu Schroeder, 8/16

Monday, Aug 17, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
07:30 PM	City Center	Meditation in Recovery, CC weekly meeting, Online/Onsite 8/17

Tuesday, Aug 18, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
07:15 PM	City Center	Young Urban Zen, 8/18

Wednesday, Aug 19, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
04:00 PM	Tassajara	True Body, True Self: Zen and Yoga, ZMC 8/19–8/23

Thursday, Aug 20, 2026
Start Time	Location	Event
04:00 PM	City Center	Deep Rest In Zen And Yoga: Learning To Let Go And Be Upright, CC 8/20–8/23