by Sangha News editor | Dec 27, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Features
February in the Green Gulch Farm garden. Photo by Clare Hollander.
by Sangha News editor | Dec 12, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Features, Zen Practice
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...
by Sangha News editor | Dec 4, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Features
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...
by Sangha News editor | Nov 6, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Features
The fountain in the courtyard at City Center, with floating maple leaf. Photo by Clare Hollander.
by Sangha News editor | Oct 10, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Features
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...
