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Green Gulch Farm Green Dragon Temple. Green Gulch hosts a full program of daily zazen. Green Gulch also sponsors a “Coming of Age Program” for 7th and. Destination: Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. It's easy to miss the unassuming Green Gulch Farm Zen. We just had a meeting about our Coming of Age program at Northbrae Church in Berkeley. Customs for a young man coming into manhood. Coming of Age Program participants at Green Gulch after the final.
Coming of Age Program 2. It is also a formal celebration of that journey. We hope you will join us! Both new and returning students are welcome.
The boys’ and girls’ groups meet separately every month for nine months on Sunday mornings from 9: 3. Green Gulch Farm. The meetings culminate in a Coming of Age ceremony in the Zendo in May in which participants are honored and witnessed by their friends and family.
The curriculum for the program is based on Norman Fischer’s book Taking Our Places. Central activities include meditation, group council, ritual, journaling, and physical challenges. The program fosters in youth the ability to investigate with confidence the tools that will enable them to discover their path and take their place in the world as young adults. The form and content of the program will be primarily based on Buddhist practice and teachings, yet open to the cultural and religious backgrounds of the participants. Each group consists of 4 to 1.
The mentors bring many years of commitment to Buddhist principles and practice to help prepare these youth for the challenging transitions ahead. For more details, please see the page on our web site at SFZC.
Destination: Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. It's easy to miss the unassuming Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. Nestled in a valley off a particularly winding drive toward Muir Beach, it's probably best to keep your eyes locked on the road anyway. But once you make the sharp left into the center, you've stumbled upon a hidden treasure of sorts, a serene farm and Buddhist community right in your backyard. Less then five miles from downtown Mill Valley.
Its 1. 15 acres are home to 6. The residential monastery also offers a vast array of retreats and workshops, and operates a Japanese- style guest house and conference center. Curious gardeners come here from far and wide to learn about organic gardening, whether it's through hands- on classes, volunteer opportunities or a six- month apprentice program, which emphasizes Buddhist teachings. Originally a dairy farm owned by George Wheelwright, co- founder of Polaroid film, it was sold in 1. Zen Center with the provision that it remain open to the public, non- commercial and engaged in agriculture. Other than meandering among the grounds, there are several ways to interface with Green Gulch.
One place to start is by attending one of its Sunday programs. In addition to being a field trip destination for schools, the center offers a coming- of- age class for seventh- and eighth- grade girls and boys. Green Gulch doesn't just feed the soul (and stomach) - it also recognizes the natural beauty around it.
Because the property sits in the heart of the Redwood Creek Watershed, the center is working with the National Parks Service to naturalize the property's creek, which had been redirected with concrete barriers before the Zen Center took over. The hope is to not only allow the creek to develop naturally, but to restore the natural salmon spawning site that used to exist.
The center's interest in gently coaxing the creek back to its natural environment is indicative of the lessons it hopes to pass on its visitors and residents. The views expressed in this post are the author's. Registered users are welcome to post on Patch.