Shusos: Roger Hillyard, Michael Gelfond, and Tim Kroll.
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Zen Practice
Ruth Ozeki: The Book of Form and Emptiness
“Things speak all the time, but if your ears aren’t attuned, you have to learn to listen.”
Starting and Growing a Sangha During the Pandemic
Hakusho envisions the sangha he is establishing as a force for good in the world.
Thanksgiving at Tenderloin Tessie
San Francisco Zen Center residents joined other volunteers to offer Thanksgiving dinner to unhoused men and women with Tenderloin Tessie.
Forgotten the Value of Religion: Awakening the Archive, Tape 5
“This kind of ‘I’ is called inmost ‘I,’ or ultimate ‘I.’ It cannot be the subject of study, or philosophy, or science, or psychology.”
Study Yourself: Awakening the Archive, Tape 4
“When you forget yourself … you take the true activity of the big existence. When we realize this, there is no problem whatsoever in this world.”
Young Urban Zen Members Explore Residence at City Center
As SFZC slowly reopens to the wider public, becoming a guest student is one way to experience Living the Temple Life.
Calmness: Awakening the Archive, Tape 3
“When you try to do something, itself it is enlightenment. It is expression of our true nature.”
A Practice-Infused Life
Leslie couldn’t imagine her life without Zen practice. “Although I’m no longer training formally, practice infuses my life.”