Special

You are invited to join us for our long-awaited Celebration and Fundraiser at Foreign Cinema!  

This event was originally planned for 2020, celebrating 30 years in the neighborhood, but then there was Covid.... so we have 4 more years to celebrate!

Foreign Cinema has generously provided the space, snacks and drinks for this event.  There will also be music, prizes, and surprises. 

Tickets will be available in February, but please make sure to save the date: Wednesday March 12, 6:30pm to 9:30pm.

Members of the San Francisco Buddhist Center Green Sangha will hold a puja in our shrine room 7:00 pm Friday January 17, 2025. Doors open 6:45 - 7:00, and the puja starts promptly at 7:00.

We will invoke fearlessness and compassion with a Green Tara puja followed by time for silent meditation and contemplation. All are warmly invited. 

With thanks for your consideration and support, and in abiding solidarity as we move into a new moment in history.

(Please note that this puja is a special event, and not part of SFBC's rainy season retreat.)

Saturday February 5, 10am to 12 noon

Tejananda invites us to explore the qualities of love and compassion in their depths through meditation, discovering what is readily available to us when we are grounded in our senses and able to "look" at our experience in particular ways. 

The morning will include Tonglen compassion meditation.

Courageous Conversations about Race is a series of 3 discussions curated by Vimalasara where members of the Triratna Buddhist Order will be talking about race from their personal experience.  

Remembering a beautifully long day involving Triratna communities from New Zealand to the West Coast of the USA. You can relive the story of the day on this page.

The day was offered on a dana (donation) basis with all funds offered to our sangha members in India, who face great hardship as the coronavirus crisis disproportionately impacts their lives. The goal is to raise £150,000 – and at time of writing we have nearly £45,000 donated – many thanks!

Join the San Francisco Buddhist Center's Green Sangha for conversation with organizers from Stop the Money Pipeline. This broad coalition has been organizing to "demand that banks, asset managers, insurance companies and institutional investors stop funding, insuring and investing in climate destruction."

A spacious, mostly silent morning of meditation – walking, sitting, and lying down. Open to anyone with some meditation experience. 

We’ll also have an opportunity at the end for those who wish to share what we’ve learned and ask questions.

June 2019 - follow Triratna events online at https://thebuddhistcentre.com/action. See also Sangha Nights in June. 

Join us for a simple morning of meditation - sit, walk, sit.

No instruction - just perhaps a couple of poems or relevant teachings - but there will be an opportunity for anyone interested to hang out and talk about meditation afterwards.

Open to anyone with a meditation practice. 

AWAKENING TO OUR OWN IMAGINATION

Led by Prasadachitta

Our imagination is arguably to most powerful force that works upon the mind. We have only limited evidence of what is happening around us and we rely on our imagination to fill in the blanks. Even what is happening within the sphere of our own being must rely on imagination to have any coherent story or meaning.