Schedule
Every Thursday from 7:00pm-8:30pm.
We recommend newcomers visit on 🟡 Sangha Night or 🟥 BIPOC Affinity Night
Upcoming Meetings
| Date | Meeting Format | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Thurs Jul 16 | 🟥 BIPOC Affinity Night | |
| Cancelled | ||
| Sun Jul 26 | Half Day Retreat | Registration Required |
| Cancelled | ||
| Thurs Aug 6 | 🔷 Buddha Night | |
| Thurs Aug 13 | 🟡 Sangha Night | MK series pt 2 |
| Thurs Aug 20 | 🟥 BIPOC Affinity Night | |
| Thurs Aug 27 | 🟡 Sangha Night | MK series pt 3 |
Meeting Pattern
- 1st Thursday: 🔷 Buddha Night
- 2nd Thurday: 🟡 Sangha Night
- 3rd Thursday: 🟥 BIPOC Affinity Night
- 4th Thursday: 🟡 Sangha Night
- 5th Thursday: 🟩 Dharma Night
🟡 Sangha Night
🟡 Sangha Night is a community building focused evening and includes 25 minutes of guided meditation, introductions, a short talk, and community discussion. If you’d like to stick around and chat, we share a snack outdoors afterwards.
Sangha Night is the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month.
🟥 BIPOC Affinity Night
🟥 BIPOC Affinity Night is for people who identify as BIPOC. The night features programming around intersectionality, and BIPOC and Trans identity. It includes guided meditation, introductions, a group reading, and community discussion. Snacks are shared afterwards if you’d like to stick around to chat.
BIPOC Affinity Night is the 3rd Thursdays of each month.
If you identify as white, please attend any other Thursday of the month.
🔷 Buddha Night
🔷 Buddha Night is a silent meditation focused evening that includes introductions and two meditation periods. There’s no talk or discussion. We share a snack outdoors afterwards.
Buddha Night is the 1st Thursday of the month.
🟩 Dharma Night
🟩 Dharma Night will be different each time it comes around. It will involve a concentrated look at a Buddhist text, a ceremony of some sort, or anything else that feels relevant.
Dharma Night is on the 5th Thursdays, which happens every couple months.
Half Day Retreat
Half Day Retreats are schuduled as the facilitators are available to host them. They occur on the weekends typically from 12-5. They include a brief period of meditation instruction, multiple periods of all silent meditation, a short talk, and a silent snack/tea break. This is an opportunity to deepen your meditation/Buddhist practice in community.
You must register in order to attend. Prior experience is not necessary.
Location
San Francisco Zen Center located at 300 Page St. We meet in the Zendo located through the entrance on Laguna St. There will be signs and friendly trans people pointing the way.