by Sangha News editor | May 6, 2020 | Farm & Garden, Features, News
The Green Gulch 2020 farm season is now well under way. Every Wednesday morning, the community walks down to the fields after zazen for communal hoeing. Last week, various work crews joined the farmers to get the third planting of the new season into the ground....
by Sangha News editor | May 1, 2020 | Features, Giving, News, Volunteering
In the midst of this global pandemic, many of us are asking ourselves, “How can I be of service?” Jeffrey Schneider, Coordinator of the Zen Center Outreach Program talks to us about how he is turning that question. For the past ten years, City Center...
by Sangha News editor | Apr 29, 2020 | News
For decades, the San Francisco Zen Center has performed a weekly Well-Being Ceremony, chanting for the health and safety of loved ones suffering from physical and psychological distress. This past Saturday, the ceremony moved online to Zoom and included a prayer for...
by Sangha News editor | Apr 29, 2020 | Features, News
By Dawu Camille Whitney Numerous members of San Francisco Zen Center’s wider sangha have written with well-wishes and to inquire what daily life is like in the midst of this pandemic. Here’s my story of what it’s been like to live at SFZC’s...
by Sangha News editor | Apr 27, 2020 | Features, News
An essay by Jody Greene, Zen student, Zen teacher, Professor of Literature. Jody currently serves on the San Francisco Zen Center Board of Directors. I didn’t set out to be a Zen monk. It was an accident, really. I happened to arrive to do a little volunteer...