Sangha News
Board Meeting Highlights, June 13, 2021
New board member - After the resignation of board member Fushin Susan Schoenbohm in April, the board elected Carol Ko Laursen to fulfill her 2-year term. Welcome Ko! Guiding Teacher - Taigen will be offering a seminar on Dogen’s Being Time and view of temporality...
2021 Working Budget Document – Mid-April 2021
Board Meeting Highlights, April 18, 2021
Board of Directors’ Meeting Summary April 18, 2021 The sangha board of directors had a productive meeting on Sunday April 18. Highlights from the meeting include: A decision to state the board’s intention to look for a building to purchase. It was recognized that...
SZBA Statement in Response to the attack on Congress of January 6th
As Zen Buddhist clergy, we condemn the attack on the United States congress on January 6th. We acknowledge the anguish and rage it has brought. At the center of our tradition is the understanding that violence leads to violence, compassion to compassion, ignorance to...
San Francisco Zen Center’s Statement on the January 6 attack on the U.S. Congress
The impact of the January 6 siege on Congress by a mob incited by the President of the United States continues to reverberate throughout the nation. San Francisco Zen Center condemns the violence that was perpetrated, mourns the loss of lives, and bears witness to the...
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF ANCIENT DRAGON ZEN GATE NFP
The following resolution amending the Bylaws of Ancient Dragon Zen Gate NFP are adopted by the Board of Directors: Article 3 Section 3(g) of the Bylaws is amended and restated as follows: (g) Call for and hold meetings of the Participants (as defined hereafter), as...
Winter Solstice Dedication
On this Winter Solstice, Darkest day of the year, we now resolve Not to turn away from the deep darkness of our troubled world and of our lives. We welcome the light increasing now from this day on. May we all spread this glowing light in our lives, May the...
Being Time and Deep Time
Being Time and Deep Time Taigen Dan Leighton From A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time edited by Stephanie Kaza © 2020 by Stephanie Kaza. Reprinted in arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc. Boulder, CO. Joanna Macy’s work on deep...
Summary of 2020 Community Meetings
As an effort to protect our sangha, Ancient Dragon Zen Gate has not met in our Irving Park Road city temple since mid-March, shifting focus to operating as a online practice community. This new realm of Zoom zazen has been sometimes strange but has brought many...