Calendar

Sunday Sittings

10:30 am to 12 noon

Every Sunday at 10:30am we meditate together for 30 minutes,followed by a talk or discussion till 12 noon. Everyone is thenwelcome to stay and socialize over refreshments till approximately12:30, after which those who are interested usually gosomewhere local for lunch. Our sittings are held at the SanFrancisco Buddhist Center, 37 Bartlett Street. (Look for the reddoor near 21st St between Mission and Valencia Streets).

MUNI: 14 Mission or 49 Van Ness-Mission, alight at 21st St,walk 1/2 block.BaRT: 24th and Mission, walk 31/2 blocks.

PaRKING: on street

(meters free on Sundays) or in adjacent New Mission BartlettGarage. The Center is handicapped accessible.

Sunday Speakers

May 4 Eugene CashEugene Cash is the founding teacher of the San FranciscoInsight Meditation Community of San Francisco. He teaches atSpirit Rock Meditation Center and leads intensive meditationretreats internationally. His teaching is influenced by bothBurmese and Thai streams of the Theravada tradition as well asZen and Tibetan Buddhist practice. He is also a teacher of theDiamond approach, a school of spiritual investigation and selfrealizationdeveloped by a. H.almaas.

May 11 Eric PocheEric Poche is the director of volunteer services & training atZen Hospice Project and the Laguna Honda Hospital HospiceVolunteer Program. Eric has many years of compassionateexperience working with those in the process of dying, whichhe calls “the great teaching of my life”. a native of the Bay area,he has been a student of the dharma for many years, sitting Zen& Vipassana.

May 18 Tom MoonTom Moon, MFT, is a psychotherapist in San Francisco whoworks primarily with gay men and specializes in the use ofmindfulness as a tool of self-exploration. His column, “TheExamined Life” appears bi-weekly in the SF Bay Times. His spiritualhome is Spirit

Rock Meditation Center

.May 25 Jim Wilson

Jim Wilson, the former abbot of the Chogya Zen Center inNew York, has studied in the Chogye, Fuke and Soto traditionsof Zen.