May 30, 2018
Featured Photo May 31

The November 21, 1971, Mountain Seat Ceremony at City Center. Photographer unknown.

In front: Shunryu Suzuki Roshi followed by Hoitsu Suzuki; standing: Bill Kwong, Dan Welch, and David Chadwick. The ceremony, installing Zentatsu Richard Baker as abbot, took place three weeks before Suzuki Roshi’s death on December 3, 1971.

 

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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.