“Buddhism is not any special teaching, it’s our human way.” * Presenting Shunryu Suzuki Roshi’s Teachings For fifty years, the San Francisco Zen Center community Saturday, July 28, 10am–4:30pm has been a wise and compassionate response to a troubled City Center, San Francisco world. Today, we continue to find “our human way,” Discover, or rediscover, the essential teachings of Suzuki Roshi, San Francisco Zen Cen- exploring how to live together sustainably, at peace, and ter’s founder, in this workshop led by SFZC Abbot Myogen Steve Stücky and Berkeley Zen Center Abbot Sojun Mel Weitsman. in harmony with all living things. Please join us for a series of wonderful events at Tassajara, IMAGINE THE WORLD WITH MORE ZEN City Center, Greens Restaurant, and Green Gulch Farm An Anniversary Fête celebrating five decades (and still counting!) of deep spiritual Saturday, August 11, 6-11pm practice and creative, innovative engagement with the Greens Restaurant, San Francisco wider world. Join us for a thoroughly fabulous party celebrating Zen Center’s 50th! Light food, drinks, and dancing with a DJ playing songs from each of Zen Center’s five decades. Includes a For ticketing, updates, and information, visit: 50years.sfzc.org Zen-style trivia contest with prizes, a silent auction, and other fun stuff. Anderson & Anderson in Conversation Zen Center Turns 50 – A Ceremonial Celebration An Evening with Laurie Anderson and Tenshin Reb Anderson Monday, August 13, 10:30am–1:30pm Benefiting the Restoration of Green Gulch Farm’s Beloved Hope Cottage City Center, San Francisco Thursday, March 15, 7pm Kicking off with a lively procession from the birthplace of Zen Center in Japantown to City Center in Hayes Valley, this ceremony, presentation, and reception commemorates 142 Throckmorton Theater, Mill Valley Zen Center’s official incorporation in 1962. World-renowned performance artist, composer and musician Laurie Anderson sits down with San Francisco Zen Center Senior Dharma Teacher Tenshin Reb Anderson to discuss a little Zen, a little art, a little life, and the inspiration that is Hope Cottage. Feasting in the Fields A Farm-to-Table Luncheon at Green Gulch Farm ‘Great Assembly’ Sesshin Saturday, September 8, 11am–2pm Sunday, April 29–Friday, May 4 Green Gulch Farm, Muir Beach Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Carmel Valley An outdoor benefit featuring a bounty of vegetables grown at Green Gulch Farm and a menu crafted by Annie Somerville, executive chef of Greens Restaurant, with organic Disciples of SFZC founder Suzuki Roshi and former SFZC Abbots Tenshin Reb Anderson juice and citrus-based beverages blended by Bay Area wine director Mark Ellenbogen. and Sojun Mel Weitsman co-lead this one-of-a-kind meditation intensive at Tassajara, This festive afternoon includes farm tours and music. the first Zen training monastery outside of Japan. Resounding Compassion: A Concert for Peace Designing Sacred Architecture: Julia Morgan Benefiting the Restoration of Shinryu-in Temple in Japan and San Francisco Zen Center’s and Zen Center Beginner’s Mind Temple Saturday afternoons, September 29 and October 13 Monday, June 4, 8pm Friday evenings, October 5 and 12 SF Conservatory of Music, San Francisco City Center, San Francisco This benefit concert, featuring original music by composer Shinji Eshima, debuts a As part of the statewide, month-long celebration of Julia Morgan, Zen Center and the sculpted peace bell by distinguished artist Al Farrow played during a dance perfor- American Institute of Architects co-sponsor a series of events to recognize and cel- mance by SF Ballet’s Principal Dancer Pascal Molat. The evening includes a Butoh per- ebrate the architectural and spiritual aspects of sacred spaces. The series highlights City formance by Judith Kajiwara, poetry by Jane Hirshfield, and classical works by Mozart Center, Zen Center’s urban temple, designed by Julia Morgan. and Bach. Bill Viola: Transformation from Within Glow at the Extremest Verge: An Evening November 9, 7:30pm with Mark Doty First Unitarian Universalist Society of SF Saturday, July 21, 7:30pm Bill Viola, pioneer of the video art movement, presents a Zen-inspired video installation City Center, San Francisco from his 2008 Transfigurations series. John Walsh, former director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, joins him for a provocative conversation on contemporary art and the capacity Acclaimed poet and memoirist Mark Doty reads from his “big, risky, fearless poems,” including selections from What is the Grass, his forthcoming book-length prose medita- of human beings to transform their inner selves. tion on Walt Whitman, desire, the ecstatic, and the limits of the body. Additional offerings will include an anniversary issue of Wind Bell – our semi-annual maga- zine of teachings and community news – as well as the inauguration of San Francisco Zen Center’s Digital Archives project. *The words of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder of San Francisco Zen Center. Founding of Zen Center Greens Restaurant Meditation in Recovery 1962 1979 2000 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center Tassajara Recipe Book Farm Apprenticeship Program Branching Streams 1967 1985 1994 2005 City Center Zen Hospice Project Shunryu Suzuki Roshi Arrives in US 1969 1987 1959 Green Gulch Farm sfzc.org Young Urban Zen 1972 1999 2011 1962 1970 1980 1990 2000 2012 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @.