Ongoing Updates on the Timber Fire and Tassajara
Timber Fire, 2026
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Features
Remembering Wendell Berry
Poet, novelist, social critic, and inspiration for generations of young farmers
Care and Tending the City Center Gardens
Volunteer in the garden this September
Susan O’Connell On Conscious Aging, Excellent Land Karma, and a New Way of Growing Old Together
An interview with Susan O’Connell, SFZC priest and founder of Zen-Inspired Senior Living
With Care and Respect: An Interview with Kōgetsu Jenny Mok, SFZC’s CFO
How SFZC manages our financial resources
Sewing Buddha’s Robe: Zenkei Blanche Hartman
Note: In February of 2009, Sangha News Journal posted this article by Ryuko Laura Burges on the occasion of Blanche receiving a special...
The Heart of a Renovation: Studio Bondy Wins Award for City Center Redesign
For its thoughtful and inspiring work, Studio Bondy won a religious architecture renovation award.
Building and Rebuilding in an Impermanent World: A Brief History of Two Tassajara Zendos
Recalling the first zendo fire and the rebuilding of its temporary replacement
Fire Heats, Water Wets . . .
A Sacred Space Forever Abides