Search for the Next President of SFZC

With Shinchi Linda Galijan’s term coming to an end this year, we are beginning our search for the next President of San Francisco Zen Center. This search will be run by the Governance Committee of our Board of Directors. We invite applications from all...

What Is Love?

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...

Love Letter from Tassajara

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...