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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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Title	Speaker	Date
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00592 Sesshin Day 3 Book of Serenity, Instruction, Offering, Buddha Ancestors, Manjushri, Silence,...	Greg Fain	Feb 22 2005 Tassajara
Hokyo Zammai: Precious Mirror Samadhi Serial: BZ-00774 Class 4 of 12 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Five Ranks, Posture, Absolute-and-Relative, confusion...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 11 2005 4 Tassajara
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00595 Shuso talk, sesshin 1, day 3 Blue Cliff Record, Bell, Lotus Sutra, Practice Period, Bodhisattva Way, Silent...	Greg Fain	Jan 27 2005 Tassajara
March 2005 talk, Serial No. 01574 Monastic Practice, Building, Priest, Fundraising, American, Heart Sutra, Tassajara...		2005
Life Is Like Sesshin: Use of Kyusaku: Being Reborn Serial: BZ-01297 Forgiveness. Renewal for the New Year, Rohatsu Day 7 New Year, Heart Sutra, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Renewal,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 05 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
December 5th, 2004, Serial No. 01565 New Year, Heart Sutra, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Renewal,...		Dec 05 2004
Bravo’s Death Serial: BZ-01245 Sesshin Lecture Big Mind, Practice Period, Monkey Mind, Renewal, Birth-and-Death, Tassajara Zen...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 06 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
September 6th, 2004, Serial No. 01575 Big Mind, Practice Period, Monkey Mind, Renewal, Birth-and-Death, Tassajara Zen...		Sep 06 2004
Hinayana Practice: Calm Your Mind Serial: BZ-01241 Saturday Lecture Mahayana, Monkey Mind, Nirvana, Obstacles, Subject-and-Object, Impermanence, Heart...	Laurie Senauke	Aug 21 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Way Seeking Mind Serial: BZ-01273 Approaching his 75th Birthday (July 9th), Saturday Lecture Way-Seeking Mind, Sojun Mel Weitsman, Dharma Transmission, War, Transmission, Priest...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 03 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Composure: The Shuso Hossen Ceremony Serial: BZ-01271 Where the Response Comes From, Sesshin Day 5 Composure, Shuso Ceremony, Composure, Intimacy, Nirvana, Practice Period, Posture,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 20 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Hsin Hsin Ming Serial: SF-01901 Zendo Lecture Faith, Don't Know Mind, Equanimity, Emptiness, Perfect Wisdom, Beginners,...	Darlene Cohen	Jun 18 2004 Tassajara
Dogen’s Eihei Shingi: Pure Standards for the Zen Community Serial: BZ-00580 Class 3 of 5 Buddha Ancestors, Dragons, Building, Evil, Offering, Commitment, Non-duality,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 29 2004 3 Chapel Hill Zen Center
February 28th, 2004, Serial No. 00158 Duality, Zazen Mind, Manjushri, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center		Feb 28 2004
Digging Deep: Getting to the Bottom of the Soup Pot Serial: BZ-01250 Getting to the Bottom of Ourselves, Sesshin Day 3 Buddha Nature, Happiness, Dragons, confusion, Bowing, Liberation, Discrimination,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 16 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Eihei Shingi: The Kanin Serial: BZ-01374 The Kanin, Rohatsu Day 5 Eihei Shingi, Buddha Ancestors, Evil, Monastic Practice, confusion, Dragons, Birth-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 05 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Eihei Shingi: The Kanin Serial: BZ-01373 Rohatsu Day 4 Eihei Shingi, Buddha's Birthday, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, New Year, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 04 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
The Practice of Love Serial: BZ-01372A Rohatsu Day 3 Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Separation, Duality, Vow...	Mary Mocine	Dec 03 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Oryoki Instruction Serial: BZ-01371 Rohatsu Day 2 Oryoki, Instruction, Don't Know Mind, Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 02 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Zen and the Eco-Consumer Code Serial: SF-00156 Wednesday talk. Ecopsychology; desires, needs, narcissism; nurturing through zazen. Karma, Buddha Nature, Practice Period, Ceremony, Buddha Ancestors, Ego, Precepts,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 19 2003
Not Sitting versus Non-Sitting: A Radical Allowing of Stillness Serial: BZ-01362 Saturday Lecture Posture, Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Ego, Soto Zen, Instruction, Equanimity...	Mary Mocine	Oct 18 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Things Change: Butch Serial: BZ-01359 Women's Sitting Blue Cliff Record, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Renewal, Repentance, Transmission...	Mary Mocine	Sep 21 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Beginner's Mind, Infinite Enlightenment Serial: SF-00079 Zendo Lecture Birth-and-Death, Separation, Letting Go, Intimacy, Liberation, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Ryushin Paul Haller	Aug 10 2003
Karma Serial: BZ-01351 Saturday Lecture Karma, Karma, Conversation, Nirvana Sutra, Buddha Nature, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 26 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Yinyan Sweeps the Ground: Wallace and Grommet Serial: BZ-01345B Sesshin Day 3 Peace, Mindfulness, Subject-and-Object, Observe, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...	Kosei Laurie Senauke	Jun 20 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Unknown Title Serial: BZ-00135B Monday morning talk Heart Sutra, Religion, Politics, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period,...	Laurie Senauke	May 12 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan Case #38 Buffalo Tail: What Does it Mean to Pass Through Something Completely? Serial: BZ-00134A Lecture Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, War, Fox, confusion, Subject-and-...	Marc Lesser	Mar 29 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Sesshin Lecture Fox, Practice Period, Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 2003 Tassajara
Suzuki-rôshi Almost Drowning Serial: BZ-00175 From "Not Always So", Rohatsu Day 5 Suzuki Roshi, Attachment, Happiness, Teacher-and-Student, Perfect Wisdom, Bell,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 06 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Embrace Openness Through Zazen Practice Suzuki Roshi, Buddha Nature, Zazen, Manjushri, Practice Period, Buddha Ancestors,...	Steve Weintraub	Oct 19 2002 City Center
Readings from “Windbell” the Book Serial: BZ-00154B Lecture Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Dragons, Big Mind, Hate, American, Instruction, Soto...	Michael Wenger and Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 20 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Being Time Serial: BZ-00149A Lecture Bowing, Chanting, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Doubt, Ego	Doug Greiner	Jun 08 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Instructions for the Cook: Tenzo Kyokun Serial: BZ-00452 Class 4 of 5 Dragons, Monastic Practice, Buddha Nature, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 06 2002 4 Berkeley Zen Center
June 6th, 2002, Serial No. 01013, Side A Dragons, Buddha Nature, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Monastic Practice,...		Jun 06 2002
May 30th, 2002, Serial No. 01012, Side B Offering, Practice Period, Lotus Sutra, War, Lay, Bodhisattva Way, Building,...		May 30 2002
Instructions for the Zen Cook: Tenzo Kyokun; Zen Cook, Tenzo Serial: BZ-00449 Class 1 of 5 Composure, Daily Life, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Offering, Posture, Emotions,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 16 2002 1 Berkeley Zen Center
May 16th, 2002, Serial No. 01010, Side A Soto Zen, Composure, Daily Life, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Offering, Emotions,...		May 16 2002
Tenzo Kyokun Serial: BZ-00147A One-Day Sitting Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Position, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 11 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Sounding Mokugyo Bell Serial: BZ-00144A Bring Out the Voice of the Bell, One-Day Sitting Bell, Chanting, Zazen, Bell, Culture, Heart Sutra, Chanting, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 07 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
The One Who's Not Busy Duality, Manjushri, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Faith		Feb 03 2002
Lotus Sutra's Zen Ecology Awakening Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Evil, Blue Cliff Record, Tassajara Zen Mountain...		Oct 13 2001
Aspects of Practice: Suzuki Roshi Serial: BZ-00477 Class 1 of 4 War, Bell, Priest, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Precepts, Posture, Branching...	Dolly Gatozzi	Oct 04 2001 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Altars Serial: BZ-00092A Lecture Offering, Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, Patience, Bowing, Passions, Tassajara Zen...	Rebecca Mayeno	Sep 29 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Walking in Beauty Through Zen Farming Serial: SF-00073 Wednesday night. Anger, Mill Valley, Suzuki Roshi, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Bowing, Heart Sutra...	Myogen Steve Stücky	Jul 25 2001
Tenzo's Awakening from Eihei Shingi Serial: BZ-00104B Sesshin Day 2 Eihei Shingi, Tenzo, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Manjushri, Ego, Five Ranks, Tassajara...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 21 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Treating Everything as a Subject from Eihei Shingi Serial: BZ-00104A Sesshin Day 1 Eihei Shingi, Tenzo, Bell, Subject-and-Object, Duality, First Principle, Non-duality...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 20 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Four Noble Truths and Prison Food Right Effort, Four Noble Truths, Right Speech, Concentration, Mindfulness,...	Ross Blum	Jun 02 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Everyday Courage in Zen Practice Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Ordinary Mind, Vimalakirti, Diversity, Ego		May 29 2001
Practicing with Impermanence: Reference to Maylie’s Illness Rumi, Priest, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Instruction, Emotions, Lineage,...	David Weinberg	May 05 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #36 Serial: BZ-00099A Meeting a Person of the Way, One-Day Sitting BCR-36, Silence, Monastic Practice, Big Mind, Enemies, Bell, Intimacy, Demons,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 18 2001 Berkeley Zen Center

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