If you have been meaning to check on availability in your favorite May retreat, check now! May retreats are filling fast, but there's still a few...
TassNow: May Retreats Are Filling Fast
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Shuso Shindo Shines
City Center shuso Shindo Gita Gayatri completed her training with the Shuso Ceremony on March 26, 2016, at the end of the Winter Practice Period,...
TassNow: Early Birds, Sweet Spring
Early birds and the sweet spring air are bustling and rustling through lots of open space at Tassajara. There are still delightful options for...
Giver, Receiver and Gift: Cooking Great Food for the Winter Shelter Program
San Francisco Zen Center volunteers came together in the City Center kitchen on three Sundays this year to cook dinner for the San Francisco...
‘Don’t Be a Jerk’, with Brad Warner, April 8
In his new book, Don’t Be a Jerk, radical writer Brad Warner offers an update of Dogen's Shobogenzo, "a very long, very old book." He'll be...
A Poem in Response to Suzuki Roshi
Award-winning poet Brynn Saito, intrigued by the teachings of Zen Center founder Shunryu Suzuki, shares with us her poem in response to the master's...
The Littlest Bodhisattva
Tassajara monks Lauren and Kogen Dito-Keith are delighted to announce the birth of baby Calliope. Born on Saturday, March 12, at 1:11am, and named...
Book Sale to Benefit Zen Center Outreach Programs
The Zen Center outreach programs for prisoners, the homeless, indigent families, etc. are largely funded by our twice annual book sales. The...
‘How to Enter the Monastery’, a poem by Jisan Tova Green
"The monastery needs/ the road", writes Zen teacher and poet Jisan Tova Green, who spent many years at Tassajara, where the fourteen-mile entry road...