From Hungry Ghost to Grateful Heart: What Practice and Recovery Invite, GGF 11/29
Description
Sunday, November 29, 9:00 am–5:00 pm, in the Yurt
The hungry ghost is a powerful Buddhist metaphor for insatiable hunger of any kind: physical, emotional, or mental. As people inclined to addictive behaviors, we have experienced ourselves (and perhaps still do) as always wanting more, needing more.
Through the wise nourishment of our twining vines of recovery and practice, we can befriend these hungry ghosts so that they no longer roam the landscape of our heart-minds to plague us.
Please join us for a day of sitting, personal and shared reflection, dharma talks, and dyads. We will explore who our hungry ghosts are, what they want from us, and how we might assuage them so that we might journey from suffering to wellbeing with compassion and grateful hearts.
Fee Information
- Benefactor Ticket Price: $172 — supports others’ participation
- Standard: $138 — covers full program costs
- Current SFZC Members (Become an SFZC Member): $124 — for current SFZC members
Fee includes lunch.
San Francisco Zen Center is committed to making Zen practice and the Dharma accessible to all who seek it by offering both a General support fund and a dedicated BIPOC support fund. Please email supportfunds@sfzc.org for more information BEFORE signing up.
Or call 415-354-0360.
Ryotan Cynthia Kear
Cynthia is Guiding Teacher of Great Spirit Sangha and Women of the Way Sangha. She is also a senior teacher of Meditation in Recovery. Receiving Jukai with Paul Haller in 2004, Cynthia was subsequently ordained in 2008 and then Dharma Transmitted in 2010 by her heart teacher, Darlene Cohen.
Sei Ka Betsy Groh
Sei Ka Betsy Groh is a Soto Priest. Ordained by Cynthia Ryotan Kear in 2024, she is also in the Suzuki Roshi lineage. Betsy leads the monthly Wednesday night MiR meeting and is a senior student at Great Spirit Sangha.