Tassajara Zen Mountain Center Talks
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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September 21st, 2003, Serial No. 01359 Blue Cliff Record, Four Foundations, Renewal, Repentance, Transmission, Mindfulness,... |
Sep 21 2003 |
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2003.08.10-serial.00079Serial: SF-00079 Zendo Lecture Birth-and-Death, Separation, Letting Go, Intimacy, Liberation, Tassajara Zen Mountain... |
Aug 10 2003 |
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KarmaSerial: BZ-01351 Saturday Lecture Karma, Karma, Conversation, Nirvana Sutra, Buddha Nature, Tassajara Zen Mountain... |
Jul 26 2003 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Wednesday LectureSerial: SF-00948 Buffalo passing through window koan. Farm and draft horses at GGF Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Commitment, Monastic Practice, confusion, Practice... |
Jul 09 2003 Green Gulch |
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June 20th, 2003, Serial No. 01345, Side B Peace, Mindfulness, Subject-and-Object, Observe, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,... |
Jun 20 2003 |
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May 12th, 2003, Serial No. 00135, Side B Heart Sutra, Religion, Politics, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period,... |
May 12 2003 |
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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-... |
Mar 29 2003 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Sesshin Lecture Fox, Practice Period, Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,... |
Mar 2003 Tassajara |
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Sunday LectureSerial: SF-01101 Daigan's dream last night. Way to listen to a dharma talk. Practice period. Why people come. Things. Material things. Practice Period, Monastic Practice, Precepts, Buddha Ancestors, Delusion, Priest,... |
Feb 23 2003 Green Gulch |
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Suzuki-rôshi Almost DrowningSerial: BZ-00175 From "Not Always So", Rohatsu Day 5 Suzuki Roshi, Attachment, Happiness, Teacher-and-Student, Perfect Wisdom, Bell,... |
Dec 06 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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November 6th, 2002, Serial No. 01064 Obstacles, Four Noble Truths, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Suzuki Roshi, Big Mind,... |
Nov 06 2002 City Center |
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2002.10.19-serial.00059 Suzuki Roshi, Buddha Nature, Zazen, Manjushri, Practice Period, Buddha Ancestors,... |
Oct 19 2002 City Center |
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October 10th, 2002, Serial No. 00973 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Mill Valley, training, Rumi, Vow,... |
Oct 10 2002 City Center |
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July 20th, 2002, Serial No. 00154, Side B Dragons, Big Mind, Hate, American, Instruction, Soto Zen, War, Enemies, Tassajara Zen... |
Jul 20 2002 |
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June 29th, 2002, Serial No. 04021 Freedom, Birth-and-Death, Duality, Separation, realization, Obstacles, Absolute-and-... |
Jun 29 2002 City Center |
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Way-seeking MindSerial: SF-04024 Tanto job, informal very ZC (?) Suzuki Roshi, Letting Go, Doubt, Daily Life, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain... |
Jun 12 2002 City Center |
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June 8th, 2002, Serial No. 00149, Side A Bowing, Chanting, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Doubt, Ego |
Jun 08 2002 |
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Instructions for the Cook: Tenzo KyokunSerial: BZ-00452 Class 4 of 5 Dragons, Monastic Practice, Buddha Nature, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,... |
Jun 06 2002 4 Berkeley Zen Center |
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June 6th, 2002, Serial No. 01013, Side A Dragons, Buddha Nature, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Monastic Practice,... |
Jun 06 2002 |
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May 30th, 2002, Serial No. 01012, Side B Offering, Practice Period, Lotus Sutra, War, Lay, Bodhisattva Way, true dharma,... |
May 30 2002 |
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Instructions for the Zen Cook: Tenzo Kyokun; Zen Cook, TenzoSerial: BZ-00449 Class 1 of 5 Composure, Daily Life, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Offering, Posture, Emotions,... |
May 16 2002 1 Berkeley Zen Center |
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May 16th, 2002, Serial No. 01010, Side A Soto Zen, Composure, Daily Life, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Offering, Emotions,... |
May 16 2002 |
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Sunday LectureSerial: SF-04071 Mothers' Day, women in Buddhism, the feminine in spirituality, story of Buddha - loss of mother, women's place in early Buddhist hierarchy, meditating on death, Buddha as a... Birth-and-Death, Intimacy, Suzuki Roshi, Priest, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,... |
May 12 2002 Green Gulch |
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Tenzo KyokunSerial: BZ-00147A One-Day Sitting Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Position, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,... |
May 11 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: SF-01086 Tuesday: Breaking through the conceptual veil, Kasyapa, nothing to be transmitted, investigate the conventional world to the limit, Kukkutapada Transmission, realization, Sixth Patriarch, Book of Serenity, Ceremony, Monastic... |
May 07 2002 Green Gulch |
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Sounding Mokugyo BellSerial: BZ-00144A Bring Out the Voice of the Bell, One-Day Sitting Bell, Chanting, Zazen, Bell, Culture, Heart Sutra, Chanting, Tassajara Zen Mountain... |
Apr 07 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Arbor DaySerial: SF-01071 Sunday Lecture Commitment, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Non-violence, Nirvana, Practice Period,... |
Feb 10 2002 Green Gulch |
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February 3rd, 2002, Serial No. 04338 Duality, Manjushri, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Faith |
Feb 03 2002 |
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October 13th, 2001, Serial No. 04345 Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Evil, Blue Cliff Record, Tassajara Zen Mountain... |
Oct 13 2001 |
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October 4th, 2001, Serial No. 00477 War, Bell, Priest, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Precepts, Posture, Branching... |
Oct 04 2001 |
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September 29th, 2001, Serial No. 00092, Side A Offering, Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, Patience, Bowing, Passions, Tassajara Zen... |
Sep 29 2001 |
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2001.07.25-serial.00073Serial: SF-00073 Wednesday night. Anger, Mill Valley, Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Bowing, Heart... |
Jul 25 2001 |
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Tenzo's Awakening from Eihei ShingiSerial: BZ-00104B Sesshin Day 2 Eihei Shingi, Tenzo, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Manjushri, Ego, Five Ranks, Tassajara... |
Jun 21 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Treating Everything as a Subject from Eihei ShingiSerial: BZ-00104A Sesshin Day 1 Eihei Shingi, Tenzo, Bell, Subject-and-Object, Duality, First Principle, Non-duality... |
Jun 20 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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June 2nd, 2001, Serial No. 00102, Side B Right Effort, Four Noble Truths, Right Speech, Concentration, Mindfulness,... |
Jun 02 2001 |
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May 29th, 2001, Serial No. 04346 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Ordinary Mind, Vimalakirti, Diversity, Ego |
May 29 2001 |
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May 5th, 2001, Serial No. 00100, Side A Berkeley Zen Center, Rumi, Priest, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Instruction,... |
May 05 2001 |
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Blue Cliff Record: Case #36Serial: BZ-00099A Meeting a Person of the Way, One-Day Sitting BCR-36, Silence, Monastic Practice, Big Mind, Enemies, Bell, Intimacy, Demons,... |
Mar 18 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Zendo CookingSerial: BZ-00482 Class 4 of 4 Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Doubt, Harmonizing, Ego |
2001 4 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Zendo CookingSerial: BZ-00483 Class 3 of 4 Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Hate, Offering, Forgiveness,... |
2001 3 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Zendo CookingSerial: BZ-00484 Class 2 of 4 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, War, Culture, Instruction, American,... |
2001 2 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Zendo CookingSerial: BZ-00485 Class 1 of 4 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Conversation, Instruction, Monastic Practice, Bell,... |
2001 1 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Tenzo Kyokun Class Practice Period, Attachment, Offering, Letting Go, Bodhisattva Way, Emptiness,... |
Nov 28 2000 Green Gulch |
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Saturday Lecture Letting Go, Karma, Gratitude, Faith, Happiness, Buddha Nature, Tassajara Zen Mountain... |
Nov 25 2000 City Center |
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November 22nd, 2000, Serial No. 03936 Ceremony, Gratitude, Emptiness, Separation, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain... |
Nov 22 2000 City Center |
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September 23rd, 2000, Serial No. 02734 confusion, Four Noble Truths, Interdependence, Renunciation, Buddha Ancestors,... |
Sep 23 2000 Unknown |
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Branching Streams Flow in the DarknessSerial: BZ-00160A Polishing Tiles, Sesshin Day 5 Sandokai, Branching Streams, Emotions, Rinzai, Religion, Bodhidharma, Nirvana,... |
Jun 18 2000 Berkeley Zen Center |
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One-day Sitting Lecture Karma, Posture, Zendo, Happiness, Daily Life, Birth-and-Death, Letting Go, Tassajara... |
Jun 17 2000 Green Gulch |
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Branching Streams Flow in the DarknessSerial: BZ-00056B Sunshine and Shadow, Sesshin Day 4 Sandokai, Branching Streams, Light-and-Darkness, Beginners, Branching Streams,... |
Jun 17 2000 Berkeley Zen Center |
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May 20th, 2000, Serial No. 00162, Side B Rinzai, Concentration, Heart Sutra, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Buddha Nature,... |
May 20 2000 |