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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

How to Do Chanting Practice

Serial: BZ-00629A

Sesshin Day 3

Chanting, Chanting, Bell, Heart Sutra, Lay Practice, Five Ranks, Posture, Tassajara...
Sep 06 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Tassajara Summer and Practice

Serial: BZ-00107

Lecture

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Jul 21 1993

Chaos Theory, Hierarchy Theory and Buddhism

Mill Valley, Culture, Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Conversation,...
Jul 03 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Chaos Theory, Hierarchy Theory

Serial: BZ-01515B

Lecture

Mill Valley, Observe, Culture, Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Jul 03 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Getting What You Deserve

Serial: BZ-00670B

Lecture

Karma, Posture, Teacher-and-Student, Greed, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Jun 26 1993

Dogen's Fukanaazengi: Zazen Instructions

Serial: BZ-00653A

Sesshin Day 1

Fukanzazengi, Zazen, Posture, Concentration, Anger, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Jun 09 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Unknown Title

Serial: BZ-00112

Lecture

Practice Period, Commitment, Daily Life, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Gratitude,...
Apr 17 1993
Tassajara

Dogen’s Instructions to the Tenzo, Tenzo Kyokun: Opportunities for Lay Practice at BZC

Serial: BZ-00286B

Lecture

Lay Practice, Precepts, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Instruction, Lay, Right Speech...
Feb 20 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Nurturing the Jewel Essence Within

Serial: BZ-00644B

Lecture

Buddha Ancestors, American, Don't Know Mind, Peace, Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Nov 28 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

The Paramitas

Serial: BZ-00639A

One day sitting

Happiness, Right Effort, Offering, Enthusiasm, Mindfulness, Patience, Heart Sutra,...
Oct 03 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record Case #27: Leaves Fall, Body Exposed to the Golden Wind

Serial: BZ-00635B

Lecture

Four Noble Truths, Book of Serenity, Big Mind, Greed, Happiness, War, Intuition,...
Aug 29 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Case #42: What is a Zen Student? Manjusri and the Young Woman in Samadhi

Serial: BZ-00634A

Lecture

Manjushri, Building, Karma, Enthusiasm, Discrimination, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...
Aug 15 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Keeping Your Eyes Open and Staying in the World

Serial: BZ-00686B

Saturday Lecture

Emotions, Posture, Separation, Beginners, Sangha, Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...
Mar 07 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Continuous Zazen

Serial: BZ-00684B

Saturday Lecture

Zazen, Priest, Daily Life, Mindfulness, Intimacy, Instruction, Liberation, Equanimity...
Feb 01 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Wonderful Ramblings on Zen in America

Serial: BZ-00703B

Lecture

American, Building, Heart Sutra, Interview, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Posture,...
Nov 09 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

The Fire, Suffering, and Relationship With Japan

Serial: BZ-00702B

Saturday Lecture

Japan, Current Events, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Demons, Birth-...
Oct 26 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Talk to Tokubetsu Sesshin

Serial: BZ-00624

Sesshin

Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Building, Gratitude, confusion,...
Oct 13 1991

Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony,...
Sep 21 1991
Unknown

July 18th, 1991, Serial No. 00623

Serial: BZ-00623

Lecture

Intuition, Buddha Nature, Discrimination, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Building,...
Jul 18 1991
Tassajara

Zen and Excitement

Serial: BZ-00968B

Saturday Lecture

Suzuki Roshi, Daily Life, Building, Constancy, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Priest...
Jul 06 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Suffering and Intention

Serial: BZ-00968A

Sesshin Day 5

Suffering, Intention, Emotions, Karma, Don't Know Mind, Religion, Lay, Tassajara...
Jun 30 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

What is Sesshin?

Serial: BZ-00967B

Sesshin Day 4

Sesshin, Pure Existence, Building, Peace, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Karma, Happiness...
Jun 29 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Goodwill in Action: A Buddhist Perspective

Fundraising, Offering, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen, Mindfulness, Lineage, Tassajara Zen...
Mar 02 1991

Shuso Way-Seeking Mind Talk

Serial: SF-01077

#shuso-talk

Suzuki Roshi, Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Zazen, Conversation, Practice...
Feb 20 1991
Unknown

Appreciating the Different Religions of the World

Serial: BZ-00699B

Saturday Lecture

Religion, Religion, Separation, New Year, Subject-and-Object, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Dec 22 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan

Serial: BZ-00698A

Firewood and Ash, Rohatsu Day 6

Birth-and-Death, Monastic Practice, Buddha Nature, Peace, Impermanence, Liberation,...
Dec 07 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Embodied Enlightenment in Everyday Life

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Letting Go, Peace, Rinzai
Jul 1990

Lay Ordination

Serial: BZ-00513B

White Bird in the Snow, Sesshin Day 5

Lay Ordination, Priest, Lay, Priest-and-Lay, Ordination, Bodhisattva Way, Lay...
Jun 24 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Ungan and Yakusan

Serial: BZ-00514B

Sesshin day 3

Birth-and-Death, Hate, Teacher-and-Student, confusion, Practice Period, Attachment,...
Jun 22 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Tenzo Kyokun by Dogen: Monastic Life in Everyday Life

Serial: BZ-00507A

Lecture 

Monastic Practice, Family Practice, Offering, Soto Zen, Uchiyama, Daily Life,...
Apr 28 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Earth Day

Serial: BZ-00508

Saturday Lecture

Earth Day, Precepts, Happiness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Buddha Nature, Dragons...
Apr 22 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

April 2nd, 1990, Serial No. 00131, Side B

Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Doubt
Apr 02 1990

January 27th, 1990, Serial No. 00089

Building, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Religion, Priest
Jan 27 1990

Effort and Trust

Serial: BZ-00378B

Lecture

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Enthusiasm, Concentration, Commitment
Jul 08 1989
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00330

Sunday Talk

Practice Period, Hate, Non-duality, Monastic Practice, Ego, Buddha Nature, Duality,...
Jan 08 1989
Green Gulch Farm

December 18th, 1988, Serial No. 01472

Serial: BZ-01472

Final talk of the Fall Practice Period at Tassajara. 

Duality, Nirvana, Posture, Buddha Nature, Discrimination, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Dec 18 1988
Tassajara

December 14th, 1988, Serial No. 01471

Serial: BZ-01471

Seventh day of Rohatsu sesshin at Tassajara. 

Teacher-and-Student, Priest, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Intimacy, Commitment,...
Dec 14 1988
7 of 7
Tassajara

December 13th, 1988, Serial No. 01492

Serial: BZ-01492

Day six of Rohatsu sesshin at Tassajara. 

Offering, Bowing, Daily Life, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, War
Dec 13 1988
6 of 7
Tassajara

December 9th, 1988, Serial No. 01476, Side A

Serial: BZ-01476A

Sojun Roshi gives the Dharma talk on the second day of Rohatsu sesshin at Tassajara. 

Genjokoan, Priest, Teacher-and-Student, Patience, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Dec 09 1988
2 of 7
Tassajara

Suzuki Roshi Memorial service

Bowing, American, Instruction, Priest, Humility, Gratitude, Lineage, Tassajara Zen...
Dec 03 1988
Berkeley Zen Center

Zenshinji

Serial: BZ-01470

Lecture, sesshin day 3

Silent Illumination, Ego, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Equanimity, Duality, Peace...
Nov 18 1988
Berkeley Zen Center

Confusion

Serial: BZ-00368A

Saturday Lecture

confusion, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Fundraising, Priest, Ego, Ordination,...
Oct 08 1988
Berkeley Zen Center

Trust Yourself to Yourself

Serial: BZ-00891A

Lecture, sesshin day 3

Gratitude, Posture, Daily Life, Conversation, Nirvana, Concentration, Tassajara Zen...
Jun 17 1988
Berkeley Zen Center

Life and Death

Serial: BZ-00897A

Lecture

Happiness, Birth-and-Death, Fasting, Nirvana, Evil, Heart Sutra, Tassajara Zen...
May 07 1988
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00898B

Lecture

Vow, Three Treasures, Precepts, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Bodhisattva Ceremony,...
Apr 30 1988
Berkeley Zen Center

Transmission

Serial: BZ-00899A

Lecture

Transmission, Soto Zen, Priest, Dharma Transmission, Precepts, Rinzai, Bowing, Study...
Feb 13 1988
Berkeley Zen Center

Sandokai

Serial: BZ-00301

Lecture

Sandokai, Fundraising, Lotus Sutra, Sixth Patriarch, Mill Valley, Oneness, confusion...
Feb 04 1988

Genjokoan

Serial: BZ-00900B

Saturday Lecture

Genjokoan, Sixth Patriarch, Composure, Don't Know Mind, Subject-and-Object, Ego...
Jan 30 1988
Berkeley Zen Center

New Year's Eve

Serial: BZ-00902B

Priest Ordination, Saturday Lecture

Ordination, Priest, Priest, New Year, Commitment, Lay, Practice Period, Attachment,...
Dec 19 1987
Berkeley Zen Center

December 11th, 1987, Serial No. 00306, Side A

Serial: BZ-00306A

Sesshin Day 4

Ego, Buddha Nature, Peace, Continuous Practice, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Dec 11 1987
Tassajara

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