San Francisco Zen Center
Meditation center in San Francisco, CaliforniaWikipedia
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Oct 27, 2026
Jon JosephGUEST
Center? Berkeley Zen Center, several times.
Jon JosephGUEST
Not sure San Francisco Zen Center.
Berry CrawfordHOST
I
Jon JosephGUEST
started hitchhiking down
Erik FabianHOST
He was the first head cook at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.
Erik FabianHOST
which is now a retreat location for the San Francisco Zen Center.
Erik FabianHOST
A student of Suzuki Roshi, he was ordained a priest in 71.
Erik FabianHOST
He helped found the Greens Restaurant in San Francisco with Deborah Madsen and worked on a cookbook with her as well about the restaurant.
Ryan GinnHOST
And I couldn't sustain, I was, it was a combination of depression and just, just deep anxiety.
Ryan GinnHOST
And yeah, long story short, it was, it was seeking, seeking out a Buddhist community, right, the San Francisco Zen center, that that that provided the kind of this normalization this like yes it's a like suffering is real um uh the the the human mind can do a number on you if you don't have some form of training to handle it and just all that was like yes thank you and then um a non-academic looking back on it too you know being in the in the midst of a of a non-academic non just simply intellectual way of being but of an embodied one right like sitting the ceremony the just you know all the the zen the zen life of everything you do is an opportunity to embody um compassion and presence and so forth.
Ryan GinnHOST
All of that was like this great remedy.
Ryan GinnHOST
But yeah, there was that interim, that liminal space that felt extremely terrifying for me.
Cynthia Ryotan KearGUEST
They are not stuck in concrete, even though they can become concretized.
Cynthia Ryotan KearGUEST
I was sitting in the Buddha Hall where lectures are given at San Francisco Zen Center one Saturday morning, and Blanche Hartman was giving a lecture on Jukai, which is the initial process of entering into the lineage and taking the precepts.
Cynthia Ryotan KearGUEST
And she was talking about what we do.
Cynthia Ryotan KearGUEST
And as a person coming from a different religious tradition, I was so interested in what was not going to be asked of this person.
Gayathri NarayananGUEST
So with Reb Anderson, you know, I've done a few classes with him and I try to attend some of his, what is it called? Yoga room kind of classes that he does.
Gayathri NarayananGUEST
And, and I've, I've heard him in person at the San Francisco Zen Center.
Gayathri NarayananGUEST
He's wonderful.
Gayathri NarayananGUEST
He's amazing.
Chris FortinGUEST
I spent the day, uh, you can all hear me, right? Are we cool? Are we good? Okay.
Chris FortinGUEST
I spent the day down at San Francisco Zen Center.
Chris FortinGUEST
I live in Sonoma County, about an hour and a half north.
Chris FortinGUEST
We took the Jizo Peace Project down and set it up in the new Welcome Center.
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It's like touching your feet
Chris FortinGUEST
to the floor when you get out of bed.
Chris FortinGUEST
So we've all had that feeling, right? I think this part of it always makes me think of Steve Stuckey, who was one of the abbots of San Francisco Zen Center.
Chris FortinGUEST
And one of his primary practices or one of his practices is he would get up every morning.
Tim WicksGUEST
So giving the gift of fearlessness, this third type of giving, this is really giving the gift of love.
Tim WicksGUEST
And Norman Fisher, who used to be the abbot of San Francisco Zen Center, in his book The World Could Be Otherwise, he talks about how genuine love is something you can't really fake.
Tim WicksGUEST
You can tell if someone doesn't really love you.
Tim WicksGUEST
It's perceived, love is perceived intuitively.
Tim WicksGUEST
Norman Fisher speaks about the Dalai Lama and how people feel as though they're sacred when they're in the presence of the Dalai Lama.
Tim WicksGUEST
The same was said about Suzuki Roshi, who founded this temple, founded San Francisco Zen Center.
Tim WicksGUEST
People felt deeply valued whenever they were near him.
Tim WicksGUEST
He didn't puff people up.
Brad WarnerHOST
And that launched me on what became Hardcore Zen, the book Hardcore Zen, my first published book.
Brad WarnerHOST
David Chadwick also wrote this book, Crooked Cucumber, which is a biography of Shunryu Suzuki, the guy who founded the San Francisco Zen Center.
Brad WarnerHOST
Also a very good book, very entertaining.
Brad WarnerHOST
read on that story, and he's written a few other books, but the ones I just showed you are kind of the ones the best known of his books.
Brad WarnerHOST
And the people who owned it wanted to sell it.
Brad WarnerHOST
And there were a lot of bidders, I guess, or a certain amount of bidders who wanted to buy it.
Brad WarnerHOST
And one of them was the San Francisco Zen Center.
Brad WarnerHOST
Shunryu Suzuki, who had founded the San Francisco Zen Center, wanted to start a monastic center.
Jodo Cliff ClusinHOST
did not hide the fact that he,
Jodo Cliff ClusinHOST
coming from San Francisco Zen Center with, let's say, a few hundred practitioners at the three different centers, Green Gulch, City Center, Tassajara, that's what he was used to, a few hundred students.
Jodo Cliff ClusinHOST
In Minnesota, he had a couple dozen students.
Jodo Cliff ClusinHOST
And he would kind of actually complain about it.
Sarah EmersonGUEST
And we are some of the teachers at the Brooklyn Sun Center.
Sarah EmersonGUEST
And I grew up in Massachusetts and then I spent almost 30 years living in Northern California and trained at the San Francisco Zen Center.
Sarah EmersonGUEST
So just to give you some context of my
Gaelyn GodwinHOST
personhood.
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