Using Your Smart Phone to Water the Seeds of Compassion and Wisdom

by Sangha News editor | Apr 22, 2015 | Features, Zen Practice

Sangha Project

Tim Buckley, Early Student and Branching Streams Sangha Leader, Passes Away

by Sangha News editor | Apr 20, 2015 | News

SFZC alumnus Jokan Zenshin Thomas (“Tim”) Buckley passed away at his home in Maine on April 17. Tim led the Branching Streams member sangha Great River Zendo in West Bath, ME. Tim took lay precepts (jukai) in 1970 with Suzuki Roshi, who had hoped to also...

Debunking Three Myths of Practice

by Sangha News editor | Apr 15, 2015 | Features, Programs, Zen Practice

Meeting This Moment

Dr. Grace Dammann Reflects on the Experience of Filming States of Grace

by Sangha News editor | Apr 15, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Features, News, Zen Practice

Film returns 4/24-30

What’s a Black Bodhisattva to Do?

by Sangha News editor | Apr 15, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Features, Zen Practice

by Kyva Holman After an incident occurred close to home, Green Gulch resident Kyva Holman reflects carefully on how to juggle myriad considerations where race and Buddhist practice intersect with the complex conditions of our modern world. Kyva shares his personal...