December 13, 2016
Featured Photo December 15

City Center courtyard maple leaf by Clare Hollander. Celebrating the rain and the end of autumn.


The hanging raindrops
Have not dried from the needles
Of the fir forest
Before the evening mist
Of Autumn rises.

— The Monk Jakuren (12th c. Japan; trans. by Kenneth Rexroth)

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On Forgiveness

In this letter to the sangha, Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman writes about forgiveness and repair in his own life, and how SFZC is working with former Abbot Richard Baker to reconcile a difficult past and move forward together.