by Sangha News editor | Jul 10, 2017 | News
Housing near City Center is needed for the Genzo-e Retreat with Rev. Shohaku Okumura, August 11 – 18. From August 11 to 18, City Center is hosting a seven-day Genzo-e retreat. Genzo-e is a meditation and study retreat designed to allow for a deep investigation...
by Sangha News editor | May 24, 2017 | News, Zen Practice
Thanks largely to the organizing work of San Francisco Zen Center members and friends, on April 29 more than one hundred practitioners from Green Gulch Farm, City Center, and sanghas from around the Bay Area came together at Lake Merritt in Oakland to sit and march...
by Sangha News editor | May 19, 2017 | Farm & Garden, News
by Sara Poggi Davis This winter, Green Gulch farmers have been cultivating a relationship with the Verde Partnership Garden in North Richmond. I learned about the garden in January during a month off from residential practice at Green Gulch Farm. I took this time to...
by Sangha News editor | Apr 12, 2017 | News
Dear Friends, We just celebrated the Buddhaâ’s birth in a ceremony of bathing the baby Buddha in sweet tea. The last shuso ceremony of the winter and spring practice periods ended this week and we turn to the Guest Season at Tassajara, the Growing Season at...
by Sangha News editor | Jan 25, 2017 | Features, News
In Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and at Green Gulch Farm, residents and members of San Francisco Zen Center participated in the Women’s March. SFZC residents and members who participated submitted photos and comments on their experience. Photos and comments...