As Barbara received her new name and rakusu we chanted the robe chant and the precepts. Her voice was strong.
Receiving the Precepts at Home
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Zen Practice
If a Tree Falls at Green Gulch Farm
“Mountains of gratitude to Julian and his willingness to get his hands dirty over all these years of practice and volunteering.”
Tassajara Volunteer Opportunity
This is unskilled work, involving crawling under buildings to remove years of leaf debris. Tassajara will provide housing and meals.
SFZC and Farley’s Coffee
Farley’s connection to the San Francisco Zen Center is through its original owner, Roger Hillyard.
Becoming Bread: Meet Mick Sopko, the Green Gulch Farm Baker
“Once you know how the dough becomes bread, you will understand enlightenment.” —Shunryu Suzuki
Real Calmness Is In A Noisy Place: Awakening the Archive, Tape 12
Suzuki is interested in the “unique feeling” that can be created in a sangha and in a “renewed feeling for zazen” each time we sit all day.
Where There Is Some Limitation, There Is Universality: Awakening the Archive, Tape 9
“So we do not try to escape from this world to some special world. We should find out the true meaning of life in our everyday life.”
Mark Epstein on The Zen of Therapy
“We don’t exist as separate beings; we’re relational beings. Psychotherapy is an interpersonal meditation.”
Jukai Ceremony at Green Gulch Farm 12/21
Abiding Abbess Furyu Schroeder offered the precepts to two people in a jukai/lay initiation ceremony at Green Gulch Farm on December 21.