by Sangha News editor | Feb 3, 2016 | Features, News, Zen Practice
At the traditional Zen Center leaving ceremony, the monk is described as returning to the marketplace with gift-bestowing hands. After fifteen years of residential zen training, Shundo David Haye finds himself outside the temple gate and wondering how exactly he can...
by Sangha News editor | Feb 1, 2016 | Arts & Culture, Features, News, Zen Practice
The Abbatial Leadership of San Francisco Zen Center will host a memorial service for Mitsu Suzuki Sensei, poet, beloved tea teacher, and wife of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, in the Buddha Hall at City Center, at 3pm on Saturday, February 27. The event will also be Live...
by Sangha News editor | Jan 27, 2016 | Features, News
Dear Sangha, I’d like to share a brief update on Blanche. She is still living at AgeSong, after deciding not to relocate to another assisted living community in San Francisco. She has become comfortable with the surroundings at AgeSong, as well as with their staff....
by Sangha News editor | Jan 27, 2016 | Features, News, Shuso, Zen Practice
This morning, Wednesday, January 27, Shindo Gita Gayatri accepted the invitation to be the shuso (head student) for the Winter 2016 practice period led by her teacher, Ryushin Paul Haller, at City Center. The benji (shuso’s attendant) will be Juan Angel. Here...
by Sangha News editor | Jan 27, 2016 | Arts & Culture, Features, Giving, News, Zen Practice
Artist Susan Spencer tells the intimate story of her 20 years of practice, how she met her late teacher Darlene Cohen, and why she has decided to make a gift to SFZC in her will. In 1995 I was living in Minneapolis. As an Episcopalian I was encouraged by how the...