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Branching Streams of Northern California: Introducing Occidental Laguna Sangha
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Call for Volunteers for Pico Iyer Events, July 24-25
UPDATED: Volunteers are invited to help Zen Center with registration, ushering, and book sales, especially for the Saturday workshop below—in...
Boundless Life: Staying in Touch with Blanche Hartman
Zenkei Blanche Hartman, "Inconceivable Joy," a senior dharma teacher and abbess emeritus of San Francisco Zen Center, has been in failing health...
The Zen Poetry of Aging: Three Brief Teachings
Zen poets for centuries have addressed the experience of aging in ways that may resonate with and clarify our own experience of it. Below are three...
As Bike to Worship and Interfaith Ride Roll By — Snapshots from the Weekend
On the weekend of May 30-31, the Zen Center sangha enjoyed a different perspective on the wheel of Dharma. City Center gave a special welcome to...
Volunteer in the City Center Bookstore!
Dear practitioners of the way and members of the wider sangha, Do you like books? How about incense? Or meditation cushions, or statues, or chatting...
A Summer Dish Worth the Drive: Enchiladas Rojas by Melinda Miller
Summer guest season at Tassajara offers luscious farm-to-table organic vegetarian cuisine that stems from the Zen tradition of attending to our food...
Comings and Goings in the Valley
We are four and a half weeks into our summer guest season, and over 200 guests have travelled here to enjoy the lush spring landscape, the...
The Long Road to Sitting Still, by Pico Iyer
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