Zen Center events update

Hello everyone, Jianhu Shifu has been the "invisible shifu" recently, now he's here, now he's gone. I haven't kept up with the blog, so it is time to give a little update about what has been happening in the past couple of months and what is to come:

Some of the events in September and October:

• Returned from the Pilgrimage trip in Taiwan
• Two lectures at San Jose State University
• A weekend in Vegas: two lectures and a half-day meditation retreat
• Hosted an ING Interfaith meeting
• A workshop at Hewlett-Packard on stress management
• Presided at San Francisco annual Dragon-Boat ceremony
• Two lectures in Denver & Boulder, Colorado
• Attended a 5-day Western Buddhist Monastic conference
• Working on a booklet of Dharma Talks by the Grand Master Wei Chueh for the December Parliament of World's Religions in Melbourne
• Focus on the theme of Buddhism and the environment for adults, Dharma Youth, and AWESOME children classes.
• Two monthly services: Guan Yin and 88 Buddhas at Sunnyvale & Buddha Jewel.
  
• Of course, all the regular classes are still going at Sunnyvale & Seattle
• Our Go Vegetarian 1 Day a Week Facebook group now has over 600 members.
• Our solar panels have generated 110% of the electricity the Zen Center needed (and returned the extra 10% to PG&E so others can use it).
  

Events for next week:

• Give an invocation at Santa Clara County supervisor's meeting
• Two lectures at Harker High School
• Receive visits from three religious classes from Santa Clara University
• Two lectures at Santa Clara University
• Monthly service: Guan Yin Ceremony at Sunnyvale
  
• October 24: Green Action Day, everyone attend!!

All of these Dharma deeds we thank all the shifus and you, the Dharma supporters to help make them happen.