by Sangha News editor | Sep 21, 2016 | News, Programs, Volunteering, Zen Practice
Young people call on us to be our best selves, teaching us to slow down and see the beauty in simple things, writes Meikyo Chelsea True, coordinator of the newly re-envisioned Children’s Program at Green Gulch Farm, now renamed the Youth & Family Program. We...
by Sangha News editor | Sep 9, 2016 | For Lee Lipp, In Memoriam
You’re Invited! ♥ COME SHARE YOUR BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES AND CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF THE EFFERVESCENT LEE LIPP Ninsen Kashin (River of Patience, Singing Heart) December 9, 1937 – August 17, 2016 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2016, 2 – 5 pm HAMILTON BUILDING – GRAND BALLROOM 631...
by Sangha News editor | Sep 7, 2016 | News, Zen Practice
The evening of Friday, September 2, 2016, a group of friends, family and fellow-practitioners gathered in the Buddha Hall at City Center to witness three sincere and beautiful Zen students formally take the Bodhisattva vows and don Buddha’s Robe for the first...
by Sangha News editor | Sep 5, 2016 | Arts & Culture, Features, News, Zen Practice
Djinn Gallagher wonders if her phone is lulling her into a false sense of security. Did you have a much-loved beaten-up teddy bear when you were a little kid? A very raggedy Raggedy Ann doll or a favorite piece of frayed fabric that you carried everywhere? Most of us...
by Sangha News editor | Aug 29, 2016 | For Lee Lipp, In Memoriam
Remembering Lee Lipp I remember meeting Lee Lipp in the early 2000’s when some of us practitioners of color and our white allies created a few “Diversity as Practice” events both at San Francisco Zen Center and in the East Bay. These memories also reminded me of how...