March 27, 2025
Jukai Ceremony at Green Gulch Farm on March 23

Left to right: Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler and Katie Gall. Photo by Stephanie Blank.

 

Congratulations to initiate Katie Gall – Gatsuryū Kongan / Moonlight Willow, Rooted in Vow, who received the precepts from Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler in a Jukai Ceremony at Green Gulch Farm on March 23, 2025.

 

Arts & Culture, Features, News, Zen Practice

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.