9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)

Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:45 AM

Dharma Talk:

Speaker: Hōshō Peter Coyote

Hōshō PETER COYOTE began his Zen practice in 1974 at San Francisco Zen Center and took first vows shortly thereafter, receiving the Buddhist name Hosho Jishi—Dharma Voice, Compassion Warrior.. In 2012 he was ordained a priest by his teacher Chikudo Lewis Richmond, a former assistant to Sunryu Suzuki Roshi who founded the San Francisco Zen Center. In 2016 he was transmitted (given independence and the right to ordain priests and transmit others) by his teacher and took four years without teaching, beginning in the pandemic of 2020. He has since transmitted two senior disciples.

He has performed as an actor in over 160 films for theaters and TV. His work includes some of the world’s most distinguished filmmakers, including: Barry Levinson, Roman Polanski, Pedro Almodovar, Steven Spielberg, Martin Ritt, Steven Soderberg, Sidney Pollack and Jean Paul Rappeneau. He is a double Emmy-Award winning narrator of over 150 documentary films, including Ken Burns, National Parks, Prohibition, The West, the Dust Bowl,The Roosevelts for which he received his second Emmy in 2015. Recently, Peter has also completed Vietnam, The History of Country Music and a six hour series on Ernest Hemingway for Mr. Burns.

Mr. Coyote’s memoir of the 1960’s counter-culture Sleeping Where I Fall which received universally excellent reviews, and has been in continuous print since 1999. His second book, The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education, about mentors and the search for wisdom, was nominated  as one of the top five non-fiction books published in California in 2015, he has published three other books since then including Zen in the Vernacular, a guide to Zen practice for secular people.