Features, News, Zen PracticeJukai Ceremony on Mt. TamalpaisKaty and Jordan received the precepts surrounded by mountains, ocean, and the good earth among their parents and sangha friends. Read More Aug 5, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Zen PracticeCity Center Priests Visit SokojiOur July visit occurred in the middle of Obon, a time to remember and honor those who have died. Read More Aug 5, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Giving, Zen PracticeNot Sticking To Enlightenment: Awakening the Archive, Tape 26"Just as you accepted your painful legs [during sesshin], you accept difficult everyday life." Read More Aug 4, 2022
Features, Giving, NewsHike, Sit, March: A Gallery of Sangha CelebrationsWe held four gatherings in June to celebrate Zen-a-thon 2022 – we hope you enjoy this gallery of photos from the gatherings. Read More Jul 27, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Giving, Zen PracticeLay Ordination: Awakening the Archive, Tape 25The important thing is to say "Hai!" or "Yes, I will!" In this way, without having ideas about helping, "Just to be with people will be enough." Read More Jul 6, 2022
Features, News, Zen PracticeNancy Petrin on Becoming a Lay Teacher“I found my path by continuing to cultivate the tender growing edge of my practice." Read More Jul 6, 2022
Farm & Garden, Features, Zen PracticeBecoming a Land Steward: An Interview with Sukey ParmeleeSukey loves the land at Green Gulch Farm and feels lucky to have known this piece of land for so long—how it changes, and how it changes her. Read More Jul 6, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Giving, Zen PracticeShosan Ceremony: Awakening the Archive, Tape 23"Dharma is the thing to which every one of us have been striving for, and will strive for. It is not only you, but all the patriarch and sages." Read More Jul 5, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Zen PracticeJukai Ceremony at Green Gulch Farm 6/5Jiryu Rutschman-Byler offered the precepts to two people in a jukai/lay initiation ceremony at Green Gulch Farm on June 5. Read More Jun 29, 2022
Arts & Culture, Features, Giving, Zen PracticeBodhidharma: Awakening the Archive, Tape 22"[T]he first principle is, you know, the principle which is—which you cannot talk about. And which we transmit ... from master to master." Read More Jun 29, 2022