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The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center is the oldest Japanese Buddhist Sōtō Zen monastery in the United States. It is on the border of the Ventana Wilderness and within the Los Padres National Forest, southeast of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The center is only accessible over 5,082-foot-high (1,549 m) Chews Ridge via a narrow, steep, 13.7-mile (22.0 km) one-lane dirt road from Jamesburg. During the winter months the center can be inaccessible due to snow and rain. Practitioners live and study on site. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the center is open to day and overnight guests. The natural hot springs have been developed into Japanese-style baths. A steam bath is built over a hot spring in Tassajara Creek. The center is the first Zen monastery established outside Asia.

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Illumination of Zazen

Serial: BZ-01099

Absorption in the Treasury of Light, Rohatsu Day 1

Zazen, Blue Cliff Record, Silent Illumination, Light-and-Darkness, Samadhi, Manjushri...
Dec 02 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

The Great Vow of Wholeheartedness and Taking Care of Our Stories

Green Gulch Farm Sunday Dharma Talk
October 21, 2007

Rumi, Emotions, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Money
Oct 21 2007
Green Gulch Farm

"Cooking Your Life" (Uchiyama and Dogen): Meeting the Source

Serial: BZ-00992

Teaching Retreat, part 1 of 2

Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Position, Practice Position, Intuition, Discrimination,...
Sep 01 2007
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Meditation in Action: The Crosses of Lafayette

Serial: BZ-00991

Saturday Lecture 

Chanting, War, Patience, Practice Period, Lay Practice, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...
Aug 25 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

BCR: Case #74: "Kingyu Osho-Rice Pot" (Dear Bodhisattvas)

Serial: BZ-00988

BCR: Case #93: "Taiko's 'You For Devil'", Saturday Lecture

BCR-74, Buddha Mind, Gratitude, Fox, Monastic Practice, Dogen, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Aug 04 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Way Seeking Mind

Serial: BZ-01446

Monday morning talk

Politics, Religion, Practice Period, Enemies, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Culture...
Jul 02 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Fundraising History of Berkeley Zen Center Development

Serial: BZ-01438

Saturday Lecture

Fundraising, Building, Fundraising, Priest, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Enthusiasm...
Jun 02 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Ethics in our Sangha

Serial: BZ-01417

Monday Morning Talk

Practice Period, Vow, Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Evil, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Feb 05 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Commentary on "Brown Rice is Just Right"

Serial: BZ-01401

Suzuki-rôshi's lecture in "Not Always So", Rohatsu Day 1

Suzuki Roshi, Teacher-and-Student, Pure Existence, Monastic Practice, Sixth Patriarch...
Nov 27 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Precepts - Minor Precepts as Attitude

Serial: BZ-01398

Our own Vinaya that will help our Practice, Monday Morning

Precepts, Vinaya, Precepts, Humility, Bodhisattva Precepts, Emotions, Vinaya,...
Nov 13 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

2006.11.11-ZMC

Repentance, Confession-and-Repentance, Faith, Non-duality, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Nov 11 2006
Tassajara

Sojun Gives Doan and Kokyo Training: Chanting and Bells

Serial: BZ-01046

Class

Bell, Heart Sutra, Chanting, Harmonizing, Don't Know Mind, Sangha, Bowing,...
Oct 28 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Eventual Transition of Abbacy

Serial: BZ-01389

Practice Positions Complete Practice; Small and Large Equal, Saturday Lecture

Practice Position, Transmission, Practice Position, Dharma Transmission, Ego,...
Sep 30 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Shining Practice: Growing up in a Zendo (Kid Zendo)

Serial: BZ-01386

Saturday Lecture

Bell, Family Practice, Transmission, Offering, Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission...
Sep 16 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Three Topics: Flowers Instead of Incense; Use of the “Wake-up” Stick; Mel’s Trip to Bhutan

Serial: BZ-01180

Saturday Lecture

Culture, Offering, American, Happiness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, War, Lay...
Aug 25 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record Case #55: “Alive or Dead?” Remembering John King

Serial: BZ-01178

Saturday Lecture

Death-and-Dying, Blue Cliff Record, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period,...
Aug 12 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Practice Period

Serial: SF-00034

Origins of PP, meaning of 'ango'; Dogen's essay; resistance; hermit Jim; Rumi poems.

Practice Period, Dongshan, Dogen, Rumi, Buddha Ancestors, Zazen, Tassajara Zen...
Feb 19 2006
Green Gulch Farm

Blue Cliff Record: Case #86: "Everyone Has Their Light"

Serial: BZ-01205

Temple Storehouse, Temple Gate, Rohatsu Day 5

Ummon, BCR-86, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Darkness-and-Light, Buddha Ancestors, Hindrances...
Dec 02 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

From "Not Always So"

Serial: BZ-01198

"Find Out For Yourself", Saturday Lecture

Instruction, Monastic Practice, Ego, Intuition, Big Mind, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Nov 12 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

“Not Always So” from Not Always So

Serial: BZ-01037A

Class 2 of 4

Conversation, Vow, Precepts, Zoom, Beginners, Composure, Enemies, Evil, Tassajara Zen...
Nov 03 2005
2
Berkeley Zen Center

An Ordination History

Serial: BZ-01192

Saturday Lecture

Ordination, Priest, Priest, Monastic Practice, Lay Practice, Lay, Renunciation,...
Oct 08 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Our Women Ancestors

Serial: BZ-01190

Women's Sitting

Lineage, Chanting, Rinzai, Lay Practice, Dharma Transmission, Teacher-and-Student,...
Sep 25 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Book of Serenity Case #7: On Thinking “Inside the Box”

Serial: BZ-01187

Saturday Lecture

Bowing, Blue Cliff Record, Daily Life, Fox, Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Sep 10 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Dining Room Lecture

Tassajara, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, Suzuki Roshi, Practice Period, Tassajara...
Sep 03 2005
Tassajara

The Path to Transmission and Beyond (Kid Zendo): The Same Rituals But Different Intentions

Serial: BZ-01342

Saturday Lecture

Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Buddha Ancestors, Commitment, Priest, Addiction,...
Aug 20 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Case #9: Wash Your Bowls—ZBA Zen Business Associates

Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Instruction, Humility, Intimacy, Greed, Culture...
Aug 06 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Unknown Title

Serial: BZ-00575

Lecture

Precepts, Obstacles, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Buddha Nature,...
Jul 16 2005
Tassajara

Bodhidharma and Buddha Nature

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Hongzhi, Practice Period
Jul 11 2005
Tassajara

Bodhidharma and Buddha Nature

Genjokoan, Book of Serenity, Buddha Mind, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Nirvana,...
Jul 10 2005
Tassajara

Reflections on My Life

Serial: BZ-01335

76th Birthday, Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman, Priest, Lay Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Lay, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Jul 08 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Shuso Ceremony

Serial: BZ-01333

Tips for Questioners and Shuso, Sesshin Day 5

Shuso Ceremony, Intuition, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Commitment...
Jun 26 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen Tips

Serial: BZ-01330

Dealing with Pain and Sitting in a Chair, Sesshin Day 2

Zazen, Pain, Posture, Discrimination, Don't Know Mind, Non-discrimination,...
Jun 23 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Eight Practices of Bodhisattva, Tibetan Tradition, Bodhisattva Song and Kid Zendo Day

Serial: BZ-01328

Saturday Lecture

Lotus Sutra, Dharma Transmission, Patience, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Jun 18 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan

Serial: BZ-01035A

Class 5 of 5

Daily Life, Offering, Monastic Practice, Soto Zen, Birth-and-Death, Tassajara Zen...
Jun 16 2005
5
Berkeley Zen Center

June 16th, 2005, Serial No. 01551

Offering, Birth-and-Death, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Equanimity, Nirvana,...
Jun 16 2005

On Race

Serial: BZ-00601

Sesshin Day 7

Diversity, Culture, Lay, Discrimination, Hate, Soto Zen, Silence, confusion, Bell,...
Mar 29 2005
Tassajara

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00584

Sesshin day 7

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Emotions, Zoom, Demons...
Mar 29 2005
Tassajara

Teacher-Student Relationships

Serial: BZ-00599

Hierarchy, Sesshin Day 5

Teacher-and-Student, Teacher-and-Student, Precepts, Anger, Intimacy, Practice Period...
Mar 27 2005

Precepts, Student-Teacher Relationship

Serial: BZ-00598

Sesshin Day 4

Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Precepts, Observe, Teacher-and-Student, Ego, Big Mind...
Mar 26 2005
Tassajara

Dongshan

Serial: BZ-00593

Sesshin Day 3

Three Treasures, Four Noble Truths, Practice Period, Buddha Mind, Soto Zen, Lotus...
Mar 25 2005
Tassajara

Zendo Lecture

Practice Period, Impermanence, Balance, Five Ranks, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Mar 21 2005
Tassajara

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00585

Zendo Lecture

Practice Period, Impermanence, Five Ranks, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Vow, Bowing...
Mar 21 2005
Tassajara

Zen Of Business Administration

Serial: SF-00036

Sunday Talk.
Life at Green Gulch in the 1970s; giving, fearlessness; improv; no mistakes; parenting.

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Interview, Suzuki Roshi, Mill Valley, Daily Life, Koan...
Mar 20 2005
Green Gulch Farm

Wallace Stevens and Emptiness

Lotus Sutra, Separation, Five Ranks, Evil, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Uchiyama,...
Mar 20 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Way Seeking Mind Pt. 3

Serial: BZ-00589

Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman, Way-Seeking Mind, Building, Priest, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...
Mar 14 2005

March 14th, 2005, Serial No. 01570

Monastic Practice, Priest, Building, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Soto Zen,...
Mar 14 2005

Way Seeking Mind

Serial: SF-00044

The route to becoming a zen monk; growing up Jewish and hanging out with the beats; meeting Suzuki Roshi.

Monastic Practice, Japan, Way-Seeking Mind, Suzuki Roshi, Monastic Practice, Priest,...
Mar 13 2005
2
Tassajara

Way Seeking Mind Pt. 2

Serial: BZ-00590

Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman, Way-Seeking Mind, Monastic Practice, Priest, Fundraising,...
Mar 13 2005

Zendo Talk

Practice Period, Attachment, Don't Know Mind, Vow, Precepts, Gratitude, Silence...
Mar 08 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00583

Sesshin Day 4

Karma, Funeral, Death-and-Dying, Global Warming, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Feb 23 2005
Tassajara

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