by Sangha News editor | Jun 1, 2020 | News
The spiritual leadership of San Francisco Zen Center stands with the families and communities of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the countless other Black lives lost to the systemic racist violence endemic to American society. The painful and...
by Sangha News editor | Jun 1, 2020 | News
By Bapu Vaitla ‘Love is to see the self in all the world.’ Twenty-two years ago, on an early autumn day at Green Gulch Farm, Norman Fischer gave a talk about pain.”All suffering,” he said, “s a reflection of mind.” It...
by Sangha News editor | Jun 1, 2020 | News
Bapu Vaitla, one of the forty-seven participants in the 104th Tassajara Practice Period this winter, arrived with a big question: What is love? The community responded with their answers to that question, which are collected here. Some were also made into a...
by Sangha News editor | May 26, 2020 | Farm & Garden, Features, Giving, News
During these days of imposed restriction, it is easy and natural to lament the loss of the easy freedoms that, just a few months ago, we took as given: the ability to meet with friends, to go to a restaurant or bookstore, to pick up an item or two at the grocery store...
by Sangha News editor | May 20, 2020 | Features, News
By Brenda Proudfoot The day we learned we would no longer practice zazen together in the zendo but instead would each practice in our individual rooms using Zoom, the tears came. My heart broke a little that day. Practicing zazen in the beautiful zendo here was...
