With Shinchi Linda Galijan's term coming to an end this year, we are beginning our search for the next President of San Francisco Zen Center. This...
Current Updates and Information on COVID-19
Monday, June 1, 12:00 pm Statement from San Francisco Zen Center's Spiritual Leadership The spiritual leadership of San Francisco Zen Center...
Statement from San Francisco Zen Center’s Spiritual Leadership
The spiritual leadership of San Francisco Zen Center stands with the families and communities of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery,...
What Is Love?
By Bapu Vaitla 'Love is to see the self in all the world.' Twenty-two years ago, on an early autumn day at Green Gulch Farm, Norman...
Love Letter from Tassajara
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...