This last week, not one but two Zen Center families welcomed the new year with healthy new babies. Stephanie and Thiemo Blank, longtime residents at...
Bridging Monastic and Urban Practice: The Online Practice Period
by Lydia Linker
Clear Water Zendo Turns 15: Introducing the Vallejo Zen Center
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Congratulations to Fall Shusos
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A Year Later: Remembering Myogen
A traditional pairing of services will mark the one-year anniversary of the death of San Francisco Zen Center's first central abbot, who passed away...
Generosity and Gratitude
“Of the four methods of guidance of a bodhisattva, the first teaching is giving, or dana. Dana is the first perfection—dana paramita. That gives you...
It’s Green Gulch Creek, with a Twist
Photos by Carla Koop Green Gulch Creek is flowing in its new meandering bed, as shown below. As work for the Creek Restoration Project continues,...
“States of Grace” Hits Bay Area Theaters This January
The new documentary States of Grace hits Bay Area theaters to coincide with the installation of a movable median barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge...
Attending to the Issue of Racism in Our Life and Community
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...