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Meeting the Changes of Time: A Celebration of Aging, CC 9/8

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Senior Dharma Teacher Zenkei Blanche Hartman
Keiryu Liên Shutt
Saturday, September 8
1:30 - 4:30 pm
with Zenkei Blanche Hartman and Keiryu Lien Shutt

Dining Room at 300 Page Street

Life-stage changes are a natural part of living. As middle-aged and older-aging women, we experience shifts and changes in body, emotions, cognitive and spiritual functions and needs. Please join us in this half-day retreat as we sit together, share, and celebrate the themes of these stages. Meditation/zazen, Dharma teachings, and group discussions will be used to help us engage in Soto Zen teachings on Impermanence as it relates to aging.

Zenkei Blanche Hartman served as the first woman Abbot/Abbess of San Francisco Zen Center. After the death in January 2011 of her husband of 63 years, Lou Hartman, and having developed arthritis in her knees, Zenkei has been practicing with the teachings on old age in an intimate way.

Keiryu Liên Shutt is experiencing the life-stage change of perimenopause. She is working to know how to be with difficult states (such as hot-flashes and decreased concentration) along with learning how to honor and celebrate this transformational stage.

You are invited to bring something to put on an event-created altar as we will end the day in a ritual to mark our individual and collective life-stage changes.

Open to all. The retreat will address the aspects of aging for women as it affects them as well as family members and the men and younger people in their lives.

Retreat fee: $40; $36 SFZC members; $32 limited income.

To Register: Use the Ticket Table below. Or call our toll free number 888.743.9362 or our local number 415.475.9362.


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Senior Dharma Teacher Zenkei Blanche Hartman
Zenkei Blanche Hartman began sitting in 1969 at the Berkeley Zen Center with Sojun Mel Weitsman and in San Francisco with Suzuki Roshi. She was priest ordained in 1977 by Zentatsu Baker and received dharma transmission with Sojun in 1988. Zenkei was the first woman Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center, serving in that position from 1996-2003.

Keiryu Liên Shutt
Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt, was ordained in 2005 with Zenkei Blanche Hartman. Born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, she began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition of Spirit Rock and later trained at Tassajara and Asian monasteries. She is a founding member of the Buddhists of Color (founded in 1998). Liên offers retreats, workshops and practice discussions at SFZC and East Bay Meditation Center, where she is also one of the teachers of the Alphabet Sangha.