
Featured Photo August 1
City Center Abbess Kiku Christina Lehnherr with Senior Dharma Teacher Zenkei Blanche Hartman in the City Center hallway.

Feasting in the Fields-A Benefit Celebration of Green Gulch Farm
“Eating is an agricultural act.”
? Wendell Berry, What Are People for? Essays By Wendell Berry
Abiding Abbess Eijun Linda Cutts and the Green Gulch Farm community open their hearts, fields, and kitchen in celebration of 40 years of sustainable organic farming. Please join us on Saturday, September 8, 11:00am-2:00pm, for the Zen Center 50 event Feasting in the Fields, an outdoor farm-to-table luncheon featuring a bounty of vegetables grown at Green Gulch with a menu crafted by Annie Somerville, executive chef of Greens Restaurant, and prepared by Aaron Jonas Catering. Read more

TassNow: August Availability!
We’ve just had some openings in August — call soon to join us. Read more

A Letter to Honeybee Enthusiasts
Our honeybee expert, Alan Hawkins, has sent us a fascinating update on the hives in the city and out at the farm. Alan teaches beekeeping workshops in both locations, though they are on hiatus until next year. Until then, enjoy this peek into the lives of the bees both in San Francisco and in foggy Marin!

Bharata Natyam Performance at City Center
“Buddha’s Birth” – Bharata Natyam Performance dealing with the story of Siddhartha’s Birth.
City Center Dining Room
Monday, August 6, 7:30pm
By donation

August Art Exhibit at City Center
Passing Through – Patricia Kelly and Vince Montague
August 3 – 29
Reception: Friday, August 10, 7 – 8:30 pm

Glow at the Extremest Verge: An Evening with Mark Doty
This event will be Video Live Streamed
Sat, July 21, 7:30pm
300 Page Street, San Francisco

Tassajara Fall 2012 Practice Period
September 24 – December 20, 2012
led by Abbot Myogen Steve Stücky
Applications due by August 6, 2012.