On the morning of the New Year, for the first time since the beginning of the Covid-19 protocols, City Center residents sat zazen, bowed, and chanted together in the temple building.
Holiday Gifts for Clara House Children
Clara House, located just down Page Street from City Center, is a family shelter with which San Francisco Zen Center has been involved for many...
Membership 2020: Suiko Betsy McCall’s Story of Connection
During my first month as a farm apprentice at Green Gulch I had a bad dream. I dreamt that I had gone home for the weekend and that my boyfriend had...
Membership 2020: Angela Ni’s Story of Connection
I started going to San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) in 2017. As with some of the best things that you discover in life, I found SFZC through word of...
Membership 2020: Glady Thacher’s Story of Connection
Let me go back to the very beginning before Green Gulch Farm was established. When the Golden Gate National Recreation Area was finalized, George...
Membership 2020: Sozan Miglioli’s Story of Connection
I'm originally from Argentina and I practiced Soto Zen for many years in the Deshimaru lineage there. Back then I already knew about SFZC and had...
Membership 2020: Risa Ferrer’s Story of Connection
How did I first come to San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC)? It's kind of a funny story. I was going through a lot since my mother had passed away. I...
Membership 2020: Engetsu Lefevre’s Story of Connection
Engetsu Lefevre first came to SFZC's City Center in 2013. After several years of Zen practice in her native Brazil, she was looking for a Zen center...
Membership 2020: Carla Walter’s Story of Connection
Carla Walter already had a dedicated spiritual practice when she visited Tassajara for the first time in 2018, and she "had no intention of becoming...