by Sangha News editor | Mar 30, 2016 | News, Shuso, Zen Practice
City Center shuso Shindo Gita Gayatri completed her training with the Shuso Ceremony on March 26, 2016, at the end of the Winter Practice Period, led by Ryushin Paul Haller. Here is the bright new teacher in the City Center courtyard after the ceremony with the benji...
by Sangha News editor | Mar 28, 2016 | News
Early birds and the sweet spring air are bustling and rustling through lots of open space at Tassajara. There are still delightful options for regular overnight stays (two or three nights, too) in creekside cabins and various shared housing options, beginning April...
by Sangha News editor | Mar 23, 2016 | Features, News, Volunteering
San Francisco Zen Center volunteers came together in the City Center kitchen on three Sundays this year to cook dinner for the San Francisco Interfaith Council’s Winter Shelter Program. Participating with the San Francisco Interfaith Council, Zen Center...
by Sangha News editor | Mar 23, 2016 | Arts & Culture, Features, News, Zen Practice
In his new book, Don’t Be a Jerk, radical writer Brad Warner offers an update of Dogen’s Shobogenzo, “a very long, very old book.” He’ll be discussing Don’t Be a Jerk at City Center on April 8; in the meantime, he explains why he thinks...
by Sangha News editor | Mar 23, 2016 | Arts & Culture, News, Zen Practice
Award-winning poet Brynn Saito, intrigued by the teachings of Zen Center founder Shunryu Suzuki, shares with us her poem in response to the master’s teaching. “Sometimes a flash will come through a dark sky…The sky is never surprised when all of a...
