
Featured Photo February 20
Green Gulch Farm, garden border in the spring. Photo by Shundo David Haye.

Featured Photo February 6
Chatting on the bridge over Cabarga Creek, Tassajara summer 2019. Photo by Tasja Keetman.

Featured Photo January 9
New Year’s Day at City Center/Beginners Mind Temple. During the toasts, Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman wished everyone a year filled with light, delight, and insight. Photo by Clare Hollander.

Featured Photo December 20
Congratulations to Tim O’Connor Fraser, Gyoku To I Toku / Jade Lantern Solemn Virtue, the Fall 2019 City Center shuso. The shuso ceremony, after which these photos were taken, took place on Saturday, December 7. Lorenzo Garbo was Tim’s benji/assistant during the practice period. Photos by Eli Brown-Stevenson.
Congratulations also to Green Gulch Farm Fall 2019 shuso, Tedd Brown, Seiyu Myoho / Quiet Courage, Wondrous Liberation. Below is a photo taken after the shuso ceremony on Monday, December 9. Photo by Thiemo Blank.

Featured Photo December 5
In the summer of 2019, the photographer and artist Tasja Keetman visited the three San Francisco Zen Center locations. Her playful and creative interpretations, such as this one taken in the abbot’s garden at Tassajara, are delightful and evocative versions of these familiar locations and images.

Featured Photo November 14
The fountain in the courtyard at City Center, with floating maple leaf. Photo by Clare Hollander.

Featured Photo October 24
Sejiki is a traditional Japanese Zen Buddhist ceremony for the spirits of departed ones. This powerful ceremony summons forth all restless spirits and pacifies agitation and violence within and without. At City Center, residents, guests, and families from Clare House in San Francisco dress in costumes both simple and elaborate. These are photos from past celebrations by unknown photographers.

Featured Photo October 10
Reading by Tassajara Creek. Practice period is in its third week, and it is still warm enough in the afternoons to sit by the creek, and to enjoy soaking one’s feet and listening to the water and the breeze in the trees. Photo by Shundo David Haye.

Featured Photo October 3
Green Gulch Farm’s fall 2018 pumpkin harvest. Photo by Clare Hollander.