Join us for a day of silent meditations alternating sitting with movement and walking, offered in-person and online

Rev. Liên will offer guidance through the Five Hindrances. An optional Q&A period will be available towards the end of the day. Great for those who struggle with sensual desire, aversion & ill-will, sloth & torpor, anxiety & worry, or skeptical doubt.

DATE
Saturday, April 27, 2024
9:00am-5:00pm Pacific Time

LOCATION
1252 Valencia Street, Suite A, San Francisco, CA 94612. (about 2 blocks from the 24th Street Bart Station). Unfortunately, our space is not wheelchair accessible at this time ~20 steps up.

Online: Register and complete your Noble Giving to receive Zoom link

Monday night meditation gathering, welcome to all!

The A2Z Sangha meets every Monday evening (except on noted holidays and other dates that Rev. Liên can’t be there to facilitate). This is a space for meditation, and some moments to connect, and dharma teachings from Rev. It is welcome to everyone who is interested, regardless of your experience with meditation.

DATE
Monday 4/29
6:00am-7:30pm Pacific Time

LOCATION
Always ONLINE on Zoom *** ALSO in-person on 1st and 3rd Mondays every month.

3-part series sponsored by Village Zendo POC (VZPOC) sitting group for:

Repairing Racialized Harm: The Engaged Eightfold Path as a Restorative Process for BIPOCs with Rev. Liên Shutt

DATES:
**3 Saturdays: May 4, August 3, & November 2, 2024
7:30am - 9:30am PST / 10:30am -12:30pm EST ONLINE with Zoom

**FULL SERIES REGISTRATION ONLY: $50 USD

Does The Four Noble Truths just seems like another list to memorize? How can they be applied in meaningful ways in our lives as BIPOCs?

What are “truths”? How did we learn them? How do familial, cultural, and institutional systems promote, validate, or teach us to, perhaps, even unknowingly collude? Join me to see how my reframed Engaged Four Noble Truths can reflect our multi-dimensional, lived experiences as BIPOCs. We’ll do this through reading and practicing these teachings with my book Home is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold Path

The series will cover what Rev. Liên frames as the three essential aspects of healing:

1. Acknowledging what is.

2. Knowing what shifts are especially needed, and

3. Learning how to put those shifts into practice.

   Meditative, mindful reflective, and interactive exercises will be used throughout the 3-part series to see how the reframed expansions from the traditional teachings can support an engaged practice, enlivening us with agency.

   **FULL SERIES REGISTRATION ONLY:

   Giving of $50 USD to Access to Zen:

   Venmo: @SuddenLeap-A2Z (Tel. #2585)

   PayPal: SuddenLeap.A2Z@Gmail.com

   Or, you can access Venmo and PayPal QR codes below

The Village Zendo People of Color (VZPOC) Sitting Group aims to embody the three tenets by being a sanctuary for People of Color to study, support and discuss how in a system (society) of oppression and racial bias we can create a community where we recognize our interdependence.

Monday night meditation gathering, welcome to all!

The A2Z Sangha meets every Monday evening (except on noted holidays and other dates that Rev. Liên can’t be there to facilitate). This is a space for meditation, and some moments to connect, and dharma teachings from Rev. It is welcome to everyone who is interested, regardless of your experience with meditation.

DATE
Monday 5/6
6:00am-7:30pm Pacific Time

LOCATION
Online on Zoom and in-person.

Join Rev. Liên and Insight Meditation Center for a half-day retreat.

This half-day retreat at IMC will include sitting and walking meditation, temple cleaning, and a Dharmette (brief talk). You can attend any part of the morning’s schedule. Please bring a bag lunch if you would like to stay for informal lunch and discussion afterwards.

DATE
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
9:30am - 12:15pm PST

LOCATION
Insight Meditation Center - 108 Birch Street, Redwood City, CA

Online 1-day: Readings, Teachings & Meditations:

all about love: celebrating bell hooks

“I want to know about the meaning of love beyond the realm of fantasy --- beyond what we imagine can happen. I want to know love’s truths as we live them.”

And, having and holding love and loving feelings can be challenging, especially if we've had challenging conditioning and experiences in our lives. Join us in a 1-day workshop exploring how love can be when expressed in conjunction with the qualities of the Four Divine States, or Brahma Viharas.

DATE
Saturday, May 11, 2024
9:30am-3:30pm Pacific Time

LOCATION
Online

Monday night meditation gathering, welcome to all!

The A2Z Sangha meets every Monday evening (except on noted holidays and other dates that Rev. Liên can’t be there to facilitate). This is a space for meditation, and some moments to connect, and dharma teachings from Rev. It is welcome to everyone who is interested, regardless of your experience with meditation.

DATE
Monday 5/13
6:00am-7:30pm Pacific Time

LOCATION
ONLINE on Zoom

NO A2Z Weekly Meditation Group, May 20th (Carefulness Retreat will be underway!)

NO A2Z Weekly Meditation Group, May 27th (Memorial Day)

Join Rev at the San Francisco Gay Buddhist Fellowship in person for a dharma talk.

BF welcomes people of all races, backgrounds, and gender and sexual identities: BIPOC, men, women, LGB, Trans People, differing educational and economic backgrounds, and differently abled.  

DATE
Sunday, June 23rd 2023
10:30am-12:00pm Pacific Time

LOCATION
We gather at the San Francisco Buddhist Center at 37 Bartlett Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. 

Bartlett Street is between Mission & Valencia. Look for the red door near 21st Street.

This daylong gathering offers an opportunity for people of Asian heritage to deepen their relationship to the Dharma in a supportive community.

Anyone of Asian heritage (including Central, East, North, South, Southeast, and West Asian heritage) is warmly welcome to join.

Inspired by Rev. Liên’s book Home is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold Path and Chenxing’s book Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists, our daylong will weave together a range of teachings and practices. This day will be led by Rev. Liên Shutt, LCSW and Chenxing Han.

DATE
Saturday, July 13, 2024
10:00am-4:00pm

LOCATION
Spirit Rock Meditation Center - Community Meditation Center
5000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Woodacre, CA 94973

Image from SpiritRock.org

Rev Liên will lead meditation and give a dharma talk at the Spirit Rock Rainbow Sangha.

The Rainbow Sangha is a weekly gathering of self-identified practitioners within marginalized gender and sexuality groups such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming. Together, we’ll explore the Dharma in ways that welcome our lived experiences and build community that honors our diverse voices. Open to all self-identified LGBTQIA+

DATE
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
6:00pm - 7:30pm Pacific Time

LOCATION
Online, Zoom. Contact registration@spiritrock.org for details.

Sit and dharma talk for LGBTQIA+ folx

A weekly meditation group at East Bay Meditation Center for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Non-Binary, Two-Spirit, Queer, Intersex, Same-Gender Loving, Questioning (LGBTQIA+) and all of the other letters of the queer alphabet communities.

DATE
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
7:00pm-8:30pm Pacific Time

LOCATION
Online

A hybrid 1-day workshop with Rev. Liên Shutt on bell hooks’ “all about love” supported by the 4 Bramaviharas.

We all want love.

And, having and holding love and loving feelings can be challenging. Let’s explore how love can be expressed when expressed in conjunction with the qualities of the Four Divine States of Equanimity, Kindness, Compassion, and Inclusive Joy.

The course will be framed by short readings from bell hooks’ “all about love: new visions”, offering a blend of fierce feminist social critique that asks us to transform our challenges into strength, manifesting the love and caring we want in our lives.

***Open to PGM (People of the Global Majority) and to all expressions of love (friends, partners, siblings, parent/child, roommates, etc.)

A shortened version of the popular 4-week series.

DATE
Sunday, August 4, 2024
9:00am-3:00pm Pacific Time

LOCATION
Online and at East Bay Meditation Center

Space is limited and registration is required. email admin@eastbaymeditation.org for registration information.

Cost: The teachings are regarded as priceless. So they are offered without a fee. You are invited to support the teachings and Rev. Liên and EBMC’s efforts by contributing voluntary donations (the practice of “Dana”) for the expenses of the meditation center and the support of the teachers.

In order to protect the health of community members with environmental illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including “natural” fragrances) or clothes laundered in fragranced products to EBMC.

Sit and dharma talk for LGBTQIA+ folx

A weekly meditation group at East Bay Meditation Center for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Non-Binary, Two-Spirit, Queer, Intersex, Same-Gender Loving, Questioning (LGBTQIA+) and all of the other letters of the queer alphabet communities.

DATE
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
7:00pm-8:30pm Pacific Time

LOCATION
Online

Does your mind seem to “be all over the place”?

Do you find yourself worrying a lot? Do you feel easily overwhelmed and filled with anxiety? Do you obsess about “should” and “could” and, therefore, find it hard to focus?

Buddhist teachings and meditation practices have long addressed ways to be with such emotions and thoughts. In this one day meditation day and workshop, we will gather and learn ways in which we can work with worry and anxiety. You’ll learn ways to be with these emotions and be able to practice meditations, which can foster calm and ease in body and mind.

Sitting and walking meditations, Dharma teachings, group discussions and experiential exercises are offered.

DATE
Sunday, October 12th 2024
9: 00am - 3:00pm Pacific Time

LOCATION
Online and in-person at East Bay Meditation Center

Open to all.

Space is limited and registration is required. email admin@eastbaymeditation.org for registration information.

Cost: The teachings are regarded as priceless. So they are offered without a fee. You are invited to support the teachings and Rev. Liên and EBMC’s efforts by contributing voluntary donations (the practice of “Dana”) for the expenses of the meditation center and the support of the teachers.

In order to protect the health of community members with environmental illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including “natural” fragrances) or clothes laundered in fragranced products to EBMC.

A 3 week course investigating the Three Aspects of Resilience, with Rev. Liên Shutt

This 3 week series will involve meditation, dharma talks and practices led by Rev. Liên Shutt. More info coming soon.

DATE
3 Tuesdays, October 15, October 22, October 29
4:00pm-6:00pm Pacific Time / 7:00pm - 9:00pm Eastern Time

LOCATION
Zoom