Features, NewsSFZC Leadership Statement on Tassajara ClosureIn the middle of this constantly shifting, impermanent world, may you and all living beings everywhere be happy, peaceful, and free from suffering. Read More May 26, 2022
Features, News, Zen PracticeBranching Streams Flow TogetherThe Conference theme, Healing Relationships, reflected the opportunity to connect after two challenging years. Read More May 16, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Giving, Zen PracticeReflections on the Prajna Paramita: Awakening the Archive, Tape 19"We only say what we believe in, so that is why you feel that you have understood it [laughs, laughter]. Do you see?” Read More May 16, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Programs, Zen PracticeAlive Until You’re Dead – A New Book by Susan Moon"Being present at a birth is inspiring. Being present at a death can also open us to vastness and love.” Read More May 9, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Zen PracticeMeet Erin Merk: Zen Priest and Innovative High School TeacherErin appreciates and enjoys the opportunity to be around young people in an educational environment with so much learning energy and interesting faculty members. Read More May 3, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Giving, Zen PracticeTo Polish a Tile Is Our Practice Actually: Awakening the Archive, Tape 18"Almost all the experiences you have, will be already told by some of our patriarchs. They are waiting for you to experience something always." Read More May 2, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, News, Zen PracticeTassajara’s Gate Opens for the Guest Season!May the healing energy of this valley, and the transformative power of practice, nourish and sustain all of us, and all who enter this gate. Read More Apr 29, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Zen PracticeJukai Ceremony at City Center April 23Congratulations to three initiates who received the precepts in a ceremony at City Center on April 23. The preceptor was Keiryu Lien Shutt. Read More Apr 27, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Programs, Zen PracticePamela Weiss on Cultivating a Mind of Great FaithPamela is drawn to the "Hsin Hsin Ming" because it helps illuminate how we can live an undivided life. Read More Apr 19, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Giving, Zen PracticeBuddhism Is Not a Special Teaching; Enlightenment Is Not a Particular Stage: Awakening the Archive, Tape 17"What you see, what you understand, in term of concept, is not always true. This is the secret of Buddhism." Read More Apr 8, 2022