This book is about the importance of poems, of gardens, of these small, nutrient-rich places in a fragile world.

Beginning in fall 2023 and continuing in four distinct waves over the next two years, twenty-seven SFZC elders will move to Enso Village.

The SFZC Dharma App gives easy access for mobile devices to the SFZC online media library of over 4,300 audio and video recordings.

At 90, Kaz has a heightened awareness of the imminence of death. He is collaborating with his daughter on a film, “Can We Appreciate Death?”

Congratulations to the initiates who received the precepts from Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler in a Jukai Ceremony at Green Gulch Farm on August 23.

Alan will be reading from his second novel, Make the Dark Night Shine … the novel is a love letter from a father to the daughter he never met.

The Sejiki ceremony stands not only as a ritual but also as a profound exploration into the intricacies of existence, suffering, and desire.

“I saw the reader of the book as a friend I could trust and share my life with. That made it safer to be vulnerable.”