San Francisco Zen Center
Dan Belsky serves as the Operations and IT Director at the San Francisco Zen Center since December 2019, after previously holding multiple roles within the organization from June 2007 to August 2014, including Senior Staff and IT, and Information Technology Director. Belsky is the Owner/Principal of ForYourTech Technology Consulting since February 2006. Previous experience includes positions as the Enterprise District Success at Clever Inc., a Computer Science, Math, and Robotics Teacher at Oakland Unified School District from August 2014 to June 2019, and Information Technology Manager and Community Organizer at ACORN. Early career experience includes working as a Full-stack Developer at Marriott International from December 2004 to October 2006. Dan Belsky holds a Master’s Degree in Secondary Mathematics Education with a focus on Equity-Based/Socially-Responsive Practices from Mills College and a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Sciences, Business from the University of Maryland.
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San Francisco Zen Center
San Francisco Zen Center was established in 1962 by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971) and his American students. Suzuki Roshi is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. The purpose of San Francisco Zen Center is to make accessible and embody the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha as expressed in the Soto Zen tradition established by Dogen Zenji in 13th-century Japan and conveyed to us by Suzuki Roshi and other Buddhist teachers. Our practice flows from the insight that all beings are Buddha, and that sitting in meditation is itself the realization of Buddha nature, or enlightenment. Today, San Francisco Zen Center is one of the largest Buddhist sanghas outside Asia. It has three practice places: City Center, in the vibrant heart of San Francisco; Green Gulch Farm, whose organic fields meet the ocean in Marin County; and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center—the first Zen training monastery in the West—in the Ventana Wilderness inland from Big Sur. These three complementary practice centers offer daily meditation, regular monastic retreats and practice periods, classes, lectures, and workshops. Zen Center is a practice place for a diverse population of students, visitors, lay people, priests, and monks guided by teachers who follow in Suzuki Roshi's style of warm hand and heart to warm hand and heart. All are welcome. Zen Center programs also reach out to the community, helping prisoners, the homeless, and those in recovery; protecting the environment; and working for peace. See our outreach program for details. Suzuki Roshi's disciples and students of his disciples now lead dharma groups around the country.