What we’re about
Anyone interested in starting or furthering their mindfulness/meditation practice.
While this tradition is Buddhist, you do not need to be a Buddhist to join nor will anyone try to 'convert' you. The teachings are practical and relevant to anyone seeking to bring more mindfulness into their lives.
Most of the events listed are at the SF Dharma Collective - https://sfdharmacollective.org/. Most classes are offered in our beautiful space, 2929 24th Street in the Mission of San Francisco. Most classes are also accessible via Zoom.
We are a community-run meditation center seeking to make meditation accessible to everyone. We wish to create and sustain communities of healthy, accountable, wise and compassionate people from every walk of life. We welcome people from all racial, economic, sexual, social, political and religious backgrounds and believe that the path of awakening is attainable by all and should be available to all.
All are events are freely available to all, and we ask for donations as you are able to sustain our teachers and our operational costs. https://sfdharmacollective.org/donate
with Shundo
Shundo will reflect on his training at the San Francisco Zen Center, in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, the author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, and how his teachings brought to the west the essence of Dogen - the founder of Soto Zen in Japan, and one of the world's great philosophers.
You are welcome to bring your questions about Zen practice, Shunryu Suzuki, and Dogen.
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Join us in person at 2929 24th street
OR online via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/SFDharma (password: 108108)
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This class is open to everyone. No prior meditation experience is required.
Suggested donation $15 - $30. All are welcome. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds.
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Shundo David Haye is an ordained Zen priest. He came from England in 2000 to live at the San Francisco Zen Center, and spent fifteen years in residential training, including five years of monastic practice at Tassajara. He helped found and run the successful Young Urban Zen practice group at the Zen Center. Although he loves the robes and the formal rituals, he is interested in reaching people who will never set foot inside a Zen temple. He has taught at tech companies, schools and colleges, yoga studios, retreat centers, and the county jail. He loves being outside, especially on a bike, and leads regular mindful hikes around San Francisco.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- meditación en españolLink visible for attendees
Hay una gran oportunidad para aquellos de ustedes que quieran participar en la meditación en español. Los martes a las 6pm (PT), por medio zoom con la Mtra. Alma Ayón. Comenzamos con una meditación guiada, seguida de una plática y preguntas y respuestas.Te invitamos a unirte a las meditaciones donde practicamos Mindfulness, Shamatha, Vipashyana, Bodhicitta, Tong-Len y otras meditaciones analíticas de textos budistas.
Regístrate aquí y recibe el enlace de la reunión:
https://forms.gle/MMg39czSKty76AVK6y también puedes escuchar las meditaciones p grabadas aquí :
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMuq-ZTzFhEo4E_yh4MqaaKhi1aoBihfl - Mission Dharma: Meditation and Talk with Howard CohnLink visible for attendees
Mission Dharma is a sangha led by our teacher Howard Cohn (http://www.missiondharma.org/our-teacher---howard-cohn.html) that has gathered in the Mission District of San Francisco for over 30 years. Sangha members come together as a community on Tuesday nights for meditation and to hear Buddhist teachings. As a sangha, we support one another in the process of awakening in order to live our lives with more mindfulness, compassion, and joy. Everyone is invited to attend. No prior meditation experience is necessary.
Format: A forty-minute meditation period followed by a Dharma talk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_talk) led by Howie or a visiting teacher. Doors open at 7pm and sit starts at 7:30.
Zoom login information is available by signing up for the email list
http://www.missiondharma.org/join-our-e-mail-list.html
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You can view the class Live-Stream on YOUTUBECost: Contributions to Mission Dharma are tax deductible. In order to help cover the cost of our room rental, other weekly operating costs, and to adequately support our teachers, there is a suggested dana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%81na) offering of $5-$25 on Tuesday nights. However, we want to be welcoming to individuals from all financial backgrounds and a monetary offering is never an expectation. Giving is done anonymously, so no one is ever turned away due to lack of funds. If you wish to offer dana, you are invited to offer it online (http://www.missiondharma.org/dana---donations.html) or on Tuesday nights.
- Well of Being Wednesdays with Eve EkmanLink visible for attendees
Join us in person at 2929 24th street
OR online via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/SFDharma (password: 108108)
or 301-715-8592 to join by phone. Meeting ID: 545 039 806Every Wednesday, join us at the “Well of Being” where Eve offers a blend of Tibetan Buddhist practices and modern psychology for cultivating concentration, emotional awareness, insight, and compassion. Reveal the healing source of your inner well-being through meditation, contemplation, and discussion.
Eve Ekman, MSW, PhD, is the director of training at the Greater Good Science Center. She is also a UC Berkeley- and UCSF-trained social scientist and teacher in the field of emotional awareness and burnout prevention. Eve is a second-generation emotion researcher and has had meaningful collaborations with her father, renowned emotion researcher Dr. Paul Ekman. Their most recent project, The Atlas of Emotions, is an online visual tool to teach a language for improving our emotional awareness that was commissioned and supported by the Dalai Lama. Eve is the co-lead instructor for Cultivating Emotional Balance, an evidence-based meditation and emotion regulation training developed by Dr. Paul Ekman and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace.
Find out about all our events at the SF Dharma Collective - https://sfdharmacollective.org/upcoming-events
- Morning Meditation at the SF Dharma CollectiveSF Dharma Collective, San Francisco, CA
Join us in person at 2929 24th street
OR online via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/SFDharma (password: 108108)
or 301-715-8592 to join by phone. Meeting ID: 545 039 806Every day, 7:30 - 8:15am, build your practice with by-donation, open morning meditation. Everyone is welcome. Morning meditations are peer-led and folks are welcome to come late or leave early as needed.
Find out about all our events at the SF Dharma Collective - https://sfdharmacollective.org/upcoming-events
