On Saturday, June 19, Juneteenth, the most prominent emancipation holiday in the United States, Jarvis Masters and Lee Klinger Lesser will be giving a livestream Dharma talk.
Finding Friendship: Lee Klinger Lesser and Jarvis Masters
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Solidarity and Allyship with Black Sangha Members as We Work Towards National Healing and Recovery
Statement from San Francisco Zen Center Leadership, in collaboration with the Central DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility)...
California Tortoiseshell Migration at Tassajara
Tassajara student Dan Gudgel shared his photos of the California Tortoiseshell migration that is currently passing through.
Why Hasn’t San Francisco Zen Center Opened Yet?
UPDATE: September 2022 As we enter Fall 2022, both City Center and Green Gulch Farm are continuing to add in-person offerings. See Covid-Related...
Roots and Refuge: An Interview with Chenxing Han
By Tova Green For Chenxing Han, the Month of May, which is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, has been bookended by two events, the May We...
Pamela Ayo Yetunde and the Buddhist Justice Reporter Project
By Tova Green Pamela Ayo Yetunde, a Community Dharma Leader, Zen practitioner, chaplain, and author, was living in St. Paul when George Floyd was...
Work and Practice at Tassajara this Summer and Fall
During the last several months, the residential community at Tassajara has been very small. Yet the residents have maintained a daily schedule, and...
Branching Streams Flow On
A line in the Sandokai (Harmony of Difference and Equality) of Sekito Kisen (700 – 790), one of Suzuki Roshi’s favorite poems, reads”the branching streams flow on in the dark.”
Receiving the Precepts in the Spring
On April 21, at Green Gulch Farm, three initiates received the precepts and Dharma names from Tenshin Reb Anderson.