Bapu Vaitla, one of the forty-seven participants in the 104th Tassajara Practice Period this winter, arrived with a big question: What is love? The...
Giver, Receiver and Gift: Offerings from Green Gulch Farm
During these days of imposed restriction, it is easy and natural to lament the loss of the easy freedoms that, just a few months ago, we took as...
Shadows and Pandemic Practice
By Brenda Proudfoot The day we learned we would no longer practice zazen together in the zendo but instead would each practice in our individual...
Coda: What I Want You To Know…
The following poem was read by Senior Teacher Ryushin Paul Haller at the end of the first-ever live-streamed Dharma talk from Tassajara. It is a...
Perspectives from Tassajara: PART IV
The monks at Tassajara have written a letter to the boundless sangha: friends, supporters, guests, former residents, fellow practitioners, all...
A Livestream Call with Abbot Ed
Have you donated to our Emergency Fund or are thinking about it but have questions about SFZC's financial picture? Many people have asked for more...
Perspectives from Tassajara, PART III
The monks at Tassajara have written a letter to the boundless sangha: friends, supporters, guests, former residents, fellow practitioners, all...
Perspectives from Tassajara, Part II
The monks at Tassajara have written a letter to the boundless sangha: friends, supporters, guests, former residents, fellow practitioners, all...
Perspectives from Tassajara, PART I
The monks at Tassajara have written a letter to the boundless sangha: friends, supporters, guests, former residents, fellow practitioners, all...