by Sangha News editor | Sep 21, 2016 | News, Zen Practice
Last Saturday, September 17, we celebrated 16 new bodhisattvas taking the precepts and entering Buddha’s way – nine students at City Center, and seven at Green Gulch Farm. It was a joy to witness such optimistic and enthusiastic practitioners filling the...
by Sangha News editor | Sep 21, 2016 | Governance, News
A letter from Central Abbess Eijun Linda Cutts, SFZC President Susan O’Connell, and Board Chair Larry Bye. Dear Sangha Members, We want to tell you about some changes to the process of selecting members to serve on the San Francisco Zen Center Board of...
by Sangha News editor | Sep 21, 2016 | News, Programs, Volunteering, Zen Practice
Young people call on us to be our best selves, teaching us to slow down and see the beauty in simple things, writes Meikyo Chelsea True, coordinator of the newly re-envisioned Children’s Program at Green Gulch Farm, now renamed the Youth & Family Program. We...
by Sangha News editor | Sep 9, 2016 | For Lee Lipp, In Memoriam
You’re Invited! ♥ COME SHARE YOUR BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES AND CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF THE EFFERVESCENT LEE LIPP Ninsen Kashin (River of Patience, Singing Heart) December 9, 1937 – August 17, 2016 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2016, 2 – 5 pm HAMILTON BUILDING – GRAND BALLROOM 631...
by Sangha News editor | Sep 7, 2016 | News, Zen Practice
The evening of Friday, September 2, 2016, a group of friends, family and fellow-practitioners gathered in the Buddha Hall at City Center to witness three sincere and beautiful Zen students formally take the Bodhisattva vows and don Buddha’s Robe for the first...
