by Sangha News editor | Feb 23, 2016 | News
San Francisco Zen Center is looking for someone with Salesforce Database Management experience to oversee and manage day-to-day donor database activities for our Development Department. We consider our database one of our most valuable assets; it holds 50 years worth...
by Sangha News editor | Feb 19, 2016 | For Mitsu Suzuki Sensei, In Memoriam
On Saturday, February 27, at 3 pm, there will be a ceremony in memory of Mitsu Suzuki Sensei in the Buddha Hall at City Center (the event will also be Live Streamed). All are invited; please respond to ggfabbessassist@sfzc.org if you plan to attend. (Street parking...
by Sangha News editor | Feb 16, 2016 | For Mitsu Suzuki Sensei, In Memoriam
In the summer of 2010, I went with a group of close students and friends on pilgrimage to Japan. We spent a week at Rinso-in, the original temple of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder of San Francisco Zen Center and of our Zen practice lineage in America. Author of the...
by Sangha News editor | Feb 16, 2016 | For Mitsu Suzuki Sensei, In Memoriam
Suzuki Sensei was an inspiration to me, and to all of us. After coming to the U.S., Shunryu Suzuki Roshi gave Okusan a book on tea (Chado) and suggested that she study Chado, which she did. She came to understand that he was preparing her to be a teacher in her own...
by Sangha News editor | Feb 16, 2016 | For Mitsu Suzuki Sensei, In Memoriam
The following statements were placed on the altar at Mitsu Suzuki Sensei’s funeral at Rinso-in on January 14. SENIOR DHARMA TEACHER TENSHIN REB ANDERSON Oh, wondrous teacher-mother-bodhisattva, shibo bosatsu, you lived a great and difficult life indeed. And you...