Introducing Open Circle Sangha, Helena, Montana

by Sangha News editor | Mar 18, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Features

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New Website Launched as Hub for Branching Streams Affiliates

by Sangha News editor | Mar 18, 2015 | Features, News, Programs, Zen Practice

Visit branchingstreams.sfzc.org. Zen Center’s Branching Streams network is branching out in a new way. A website was launched earlier this month that is dedicated to affiliate sanghas, offering the network’s growing membership new ways of supporting one another. SFZC...

Traveler-Photographer Shares Monumentally Sacred Sites in “On the Road . . . to Away-Seeking Mind”

by Sangha News editor | Feb 24, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Zen Practice

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The Environment Is a Field of Practice: A Swarm of Recent Events at Green Gulch Farm

by Sangha News editor | Feb 18, 2015 | Farm & Garden, Features, News, Programs, Volunteering, Zen Practice

I feel absolutely committed to the often-awkward work of agitating for greater awareness of the severe crisis our species has wrought upon the planet, much the same as I am committed to acknowledging my own mistakes and confusions.  —Qayyum Johnson Several recent...

Marching Forth in Practice—with Help from the Zen Center Bookstore

by Sangha News editor | Feb 24, 2015 | Arts & Culture, News

March is the only month that contains a date that is a full sentence (March 4th). It also a month that marks movement toward spring: daylight savings time begins again (spring forward). With all this energy of moving toward the future in the air, it is a good time to...