by Sangha News editor | Dec 9, 2014 | News, Zen Practice
Dear Sangha, I join millions of people in this country and throughout the world in my sorrow and deep outrage at the long-standing injustices—large and small—towards minority communities in our cities and suburban areas. The disintegration of trust, the fear and the...
by Sangha News editor | Dec 9, 2014 | News
Update as of 12/17/2014: position filled __________ (January 5, 2015 – September 13, 2015) San Francisco Zen Center is a collection of three practice centers offering Zen meditation, training and programs in San Francisco, Marin and Carmel Valley. We have an opening...
by Sangha News editor | Dec 9, 2014 | Arts & Culture, News, Zen Practice
Congratulations and thanks to Nancy Petrin for serving as shuso for the Fall 2014 Practice Period at City Center, led by City Center Abiding Abbot Rinso Ed Sattizahn. Nancy is pictured below after the Shuso Ceremony on Saturday, December 6, which closed the practice...
by Sangha News editor | Nov 11, 2014 | News
April 8, 1947 – November 9, 2014 San Francisco Zen Center grieves the loss of Denis Rodriguez, who was a student in the early days of Zen Center and who lived and practiced at all three centers. In recent years Denis was an employee in the Accounting...
by Sangha News editor | Nov 11, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Volunteering
A group of teachers and senior students—Mel Weitsman, Victoria Austin, Mary Mocine and Mary Watson—have just completed recording a series of interviews with Zenkei Blanche Hartman. The interviews explored Zen Center’s robe-sewing tradition, Zenkei’s relationships with...