Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

The Zen of Retirement Living

HAD SOMEONE TOLD Susan O’Connell, when she started her Zen journey over thirty years ago, that one day the San Francisco Zen Center would be a partner in a retirement community, she would have politely questioned their sanity.

And yet today that very same Susan O’Connell is leading the way for one of the most audacious Life Plan Communities

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