In this post from the Branching Streams website, City Center teacher Kanzan David Zimmerman reflects on his three-month fellowship stay at Brooklyn...
Informational Meeting for Awakening through Service (Class)
Saturday, August 22 After lecture (around 11 am - 12 pm) Meet with co-facilitators Kathryn Stark and Jeffrey Schneider to find out more about the...
Transmitting the Dharma through Online Courses
Sangha Project
Life Is Hard: Zoketsu Norman Fischer on the Necessity of Love and Compassion
"One of the worst feelings is to feel utterly alone," says former SFZC abbot Zoketsu Norman Fischer, "but it’s impossible to ever be alone." In the...
Call for Volunteers for Pico Iyer Events, July 24-25
UPDATED: Volunteers are invited to help Zen Center with registration, ushering, and book sales, especially for the Saturday workshop below—in...
SFZC Is Looking for an Event Coordinator — Immediate Opening
San Francisco Zen Center is a collection of three practice centers offering Zen meditation, training and programs in San Francisco, Marin and Carmel...
Sangha Is Crucial to Our Way
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The Zen Poetry of Aging: Three Brief Teachings
Zen poets for centuries have addressed the experience of aging in ways that may resonate with and clarify our own experience of it. Below are three...
The Long Road to Sitting Still, by Pico Iyer
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