Meditate, Drink Tea, and Chat

with a Local Buddhist sunim

by 현안 XianAn 스님

Jul 28. 2024

Date and time

Every Saturday · 9 - 11am PDT

Location

Dharma Treasury Temple

3201 Ulloa Street San Francisco, CA 94116

Join us at Dharma Treasury Temple for a unique experience!

Meditate, Drink Tea, and Chat with a Local Buddhist sunim (monastic). Connect with your inner self through meditation, enjoy a calming cup of tea, and engage in insightful conversations with a local Buddhist monastic. This event offers a rare opportunity to learn from a spiritual teacher in a relaxed setting. Don't miss out on this chance to deepen your understanding of Buddhist practices!

Chat with a Buddhist sunim over tea and participate in Meditation, and more!

Take this chance to casually chat with a Korean American Buddhist sunim at our beautiful monastery located in the sunset district of San Francisco.

Venerable XianAn became a Buddhist nun at Wei Mountain Temple located in Los Angeles and spent several years practicing meditation and Mahayana Buddhism in South Korea. Over a cup of oolong or pu-er tea, you can ask her any questions that you’d like, such as questions regarding personal concerns, fundamentals of meditation and Buddhist teachings.

The temple has its tea area in the dining hall level and this is a great opportunity for anyone to visit and discover how the wisdom of Buddhism can benefit your day-to-day life. After this tea talk, you may request to learn the basics of sitting meditation or join Master Yonghua’s Dharma talk in the Buddha hall.

Either you choose to learn the basics of sitting meditation or listen to the words of wisdom from a great Chan meditation monk, it will help you find your inner sanctuary away from the hectic life. And it will eventually open your heart and build better skills to find solutions to your life problems. Furthermore, you will develop inner strength and wisdom to deal with all sorts of problems in life.

Venerable XianAn can also show you around the temple so you can be exposed to different activities.

A former Lutheran church on the corner of Ulloa street and 33rd Ave in the Sunset district is now adorned with ten-foot sandalwood statues of the Buddha and two sages. The soft sunlight comes through the original church’s stained glass windows and the original church pews are still there to greet the temple visitors.

“Our Temple welcomes all, regardless of ethnicity or religion and does not seek to replace other religions,” explains Master XianZhi, abbot of the Temple. “In our approach to people, we respect their background.”