Meditation in Recovery Turns 20

Meditation in Recovery Turns 20

On the last Monday of June in 2000, Meditation in Recovery met for the first time in the City Center Buddha Hall. At the time it was an experiment to see if enough people would be interested in exploring the similarities between Buddhist teaching and practice and...

Sheltering in Practice

By Steph Blank Pandemic Response Part I Sheltering in Practice (with Children) During the first few days of Shelter in Place Practice at Green Gulch, our children had the idea to build a raft. It was a comforting activity. We harvested a piece of bamboo from the farm...

Black Lives Matter Banner

On Sunday, residents at Beginner’s Mind Temple painted a Black Lives Matter banner and put it up across the front of the entryway of 300 Page Street. Green Gulch Farm is also in the process of creating a BLM banner and we will share that when it happens. ...

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...