By Tova Green In the early weeks of 2020, Young Urban Zen (or YUZ), a practice group geared towards people aged 20-40, was filling the City Center...
Young Urban Zen Meets the Pandemic
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Tassajara in the Pandemic
By Tova Green Thanks to Leslie James, Abiding Tassajara Teacher, Linda Galijan, former SFZC President now residing at Tassajara, and Goyo Piper,...
New Information on Tassajara Summer 2021
Dear Friends: This is the time of year when many of you are looking for your Tassajara brochure in the mail, checking our website for opening dates,...
Receiving the Precepts Mid-Pandemic
By Tova Green On a cool afternoon in mid-February, Green Gulch Farm held San Francisco Zen Center's first Lay Initiation ceremony since the Covid-19...
New Life for Suzuki Roshi’s Orchids
By Tova Green Many residents of SFZC's City Center go up to the roof to get a view of the city, find a quiet place to read, or to work out on the...
Winter Storms Challenge Texas Zen Centers
In a winter when many regions of the United States have experienced fierce storms and freezing temperatures, last week’s extreme cold, snow, and freezing rain in Texas was unexpected and unprecedented.
Intimate Discussions: An Interview with Sokaku Kathie Fischer
Kathie Fischer and her husband, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, will be co-leading an online intensive Intimate Discussions: On Dogen's Zuimonki (March...
A New Abbot for Old Plum Mountain Zen Center
On January 31, 2021 Hozan Alan Senauke became the second Abbot of Old Plum Mountain Zen Center (usually called Berkeley Zen Center).
A Mural to Greet The New Dawn
On the corner of Page and Laguna Streets in San Francisco, diagonally across from San Francisco Zen Center, is a corner building with a series of murals that wrap around the boarded-over windows.