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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Title	Speaker	Date
Conflict Between Intention versus Desire Serial: BZ-00434B "What to do with our Oni (devil)", Sesshin Day 2 Intention, Desire, resistance, training, Daily Life, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 20 1984 Berkeley Zen Center
Making the Commitment to Practice Serial: BZ-00404B Saturday Lecture Practice, Commitment, Commitment, Obstacles, stubbornness, resistance, Tassajara Zen...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 21 1984 Berkeley Zen Center
How to Talk about Practice: Story of the Birds Nest Monk Serial: BZ-00433B Lecture Precepts, Evil, Instruction, Bowing, Chanting, confusion, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Apr 01 1984 Berkeley Zen Center
Development of American Buddhism Serial: BZ-00422A Kapleau-rôshi's Visit to SFZC, Saturday Lecture Buddhism, American, Philip Kapleau, Culture, American, Building, Daily Life,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 04 1984 Berkeley Zen Center
Responsible Independence Serial: BZ-00421A Saturday Lecture Teacher-and-Student, Instruction, Practice Period, Sangha, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 21 1984 Berkeley Zen Center
Inside Out Serial: BZ-00420B Saturday Lecture Buddha Nature, Demons, Ego, Enthusiasm, Harmonizing, Intuition, Bowing, Enemies,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 14 1984 Berkeley Zen Center
Book of Serenity: Case #2 Serial: BZ-00418A The Highest Truth is Emptiness, Rohatsu Day 6 Emptiness, SER-2, Enlightenment, Bodhidharma, Two Truths, Four Noble Truths, Practice...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 1983 Part 1 of 2 Berkeley Zen Center
The Dharma of Mindfulness: Tassajara Gathas Serial: BZ-00903A Saturday Lecture Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Gathas, Mindfulness, Monastic Practice,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 05 1983 Berkeley Zen Center
Practicing Without Hindrance Serial: BZ-00396A Seeing the Absolute and Relative, Saturday Lecture Practice, Absolute-and-Relative, Hindrances, Daily Life, Discrimination, Teacher-and-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 27 1983 Berkeley Zen Center
Developing Your Own Authority to Practice Serial: BZ-00399A Saturday Lecture Practice, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, training, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 18 1983 Berkeley Zen Center
Heart Sutra: Gate, Gate, Paragate Serial: BZ-00001A The Mantra of Your Life, Sesshin Day 5 Daily Life, Heart Sutra, Zazen Mind, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Priest,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 15 1983 Berkeley Zen Center
Bodhisattva Mind Serial: BZ-00003B Saturday Lecture Building, Enthusiasm, Mindfulness, Separation, training, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 23 1983 Berkeley Zen Center
Practice is Enlightenment, Ridgepole Ceremony Serial: BZ-00043B Saturday Lecture Subject-and-Object, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Building, Study Period,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 30 1982 Berkeley Zen Center
Japanese Practice/American Practice: Differences Serial: BZ-00039A Saturday Lecture Japan, American, Lay Practice, Family Practice, American, Lay, Lotus Sutra, Tassajara...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 04 1982 Berkeley Zen Center
Work Sesshin: Building the New Zendo Serial: BZ-00037B One day sitting lecture Study Period, Building, Non-violence, Happiness, Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 21 1982 Berkeley Zen Center
Work Serial: BZ-00035 Saturday Lecture Building, Lay Practice, Enthusiasm, Mindfulness, Separation, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 14 1982 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #80 Serial: BZ-00033 Does a Baby Have the 6th Consciousness?, Saturday Lecture Consciousness, Storehouse Consciousness, Monastic Practice, Discrimination, Buddha...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 31 1982 Berkeley Zen Center
Women's Practice Family Practice, Enthusiasm, Transmission, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Culture,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	May 30 1982
Fundraising for the New Zendo Serial: BZ-00007B What is Our Basis?, Sesshin Day 4 Fundraising, Zendo, Berkeley Zen Center, Sangha, Building, Samadhi, Fundraising, Non-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 22 1982 Berkeley Zen Center
Vigor During Sesshin Serial: BZ-00007A Soto and Rinzai Practice Compared, Sesshin Day 3 Sesshin, Soto Zen, Rinzai, Rinzai, Soto Zen, Composure, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 21 1982 Berkeley Zen Center
Effort: The Fourth Paramita (Virya) Serial: BZ-00009A Blue Cliff Record: Case #5(?) "Beating the Drum", Saturday Lecture Virya, Koan, Buddha Mind, Patience, Concentration, Chanting, Monastic Practice,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 24 1982 Berkeley Zen Center
Pure Effort In Everyday Busy Life Serial: BZ-00020 Saturday Lecture Posture, New Year Celebration, Pure Effort, Don't Know Mind, Practice Period,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Jan 02 1982 Berkeley Zen Center
Not Taking What is Not Given Serial: BZ-00021B Saturday Lecture Precepts, giving, Freedom, caretaking, Lay, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Doubt,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 11 1981 Berkeley Zen Center
Children's Talk: Money Peace, Fox, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, training	Lew Richmond	Dec 08 1981 Green Gulch
Lecture Dragons, Demons, Patience, Zoom, Happiness, Composure, Interview, Tassajara Zen...	Lama Govinda	Nov 30 1980 SFZC
Poetry Reading Don't Know Mind, Observe, Silence, Conversation, Peace, Funeral, Cultivation,...	Rabbi Alan Lew, Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Aug 01 1980 SFZC
Unification of Body and Mind Serial: BZ-01058A Lecture Religion, Precepts, Buddhism, Priest, Darkness and Light, American, Tassajara Zen...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 16 1980 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
March 16th, 1980, Serial No. 01882 Politics, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Silence, Passions, Bell, Conversation,...	Robert Duncan	Mar 16 1980 SFZC
Attachment to Form: Positive and Negative Precepts, Attachment, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Daily Life, Monastic Practice,...	Lew Richmond	Oct 25 1974 SFZC
February 27th, 1972, Serial No. 00187 Intuition, Interdependence, Lotus Sutra, Ceremony, training, lecture, Pain, American...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 27 1972
February 8th, 1972, Serial No. 00188 Bell, Ceremony, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Discrimination, Chanting, Oneness,...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 08 1972
February 1972 talk, Serial No. 00181, Side B Zendo, Building, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Intention	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 1972
February 1972 talk, Serial No. 00182 Building, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, confusion, difficulty, Community, training,...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 1972
December 6th, 1971, Serial No. 00290 Pain, Beginners, Birth-and-Death, Hate, Commitment, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...	Katagiri Roshi	Dec 06 1971
December 5th, 1971, Serial No. 00289 Buddha Mind, Discrimination, Liberation, Oneness, training, Hate, lecture,...	Katagiri Roshi	Dec 05 1971
December 2nd, 1971, Serial No. 00286 Impermanence, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Attachment, realization, Gratitude...	Katagiri Roshi	Dec 02 1971
December 1971 talk, Serial No. 00292 Buddha Mind, Gratitude, training, Discrimination, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...	Katagiri Roshi	Dec 1971
November 27th, 1971, Serial No. 00282 Consciousness, Separation, Buddha Nature, Monastic Practice, Bell, Discrimination,...	Katagiri Roshi	Nov 27 1971
November 5th, 1971, Serial No. 00279 Ceremony, training, lecture, Dragons, Mahayana, Building, confusion, Funeral,...	Katagiri Roshi	Nov 05 1971
October 3rd, 1971, Serial No. 00062 Precepts, stubbornness, Four Noble Truths, Observe, Pain, Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen...	Katagiri Roshi	Oct 03 1971
October 2nd, 1971, Serial No. 00059 Four Noble Truths, stubbornness, Suffering, Soto Zen, Instruction, Nirvana,...	Katagiri Roshi	Oct 02 1971
Wherever You Are, We Have Zen Way Of Practice Dogen, Shobogenzo, Genjokoan, Suffering, Pain, Don't Know Mind, Happiness,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 21 1971 City Center
May 5th, 1971, Serial No. 00334 Hate, Interdependence, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Breath, Attachment, training,...	Katagiri Roshi	May 05 1971
April 25th, 1971, Serial No. 00330 Breath, Perfect Wisdom, Building, Instruction, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Lay,...	Katagiri Roshi	Apr 25 1971
The Driver Anger, difficulty, Karma, Freedom, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Peace, confusion,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 27 1971 City Center
December 1970 talk, Serial No. 00216 Transmission, Meditation, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Hindrances, Samadhi,...	Katagiri Roshi	Dec 1970
Do Not Pass Your Days and Nights in Vain Serial: SR-00221 Sandokai Lecture XIII: “Don't Spend Your Time in Vain” Monday, July 6, 1970 Tassajara [This lecture is concerned with the following lines of the Sandokai:... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Sixth Patriarch, Dogen, difficulty, sitting, zen,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 06 1970 Tassajara
We Should Not Stick to Words or Rules Too Much Serial: SR-00222 Sandokai Lecture XII: “It Is Not Always So” Saturday, July 4, 1970 Tassajara [This lecture is concerned with the following lines of the Sandokai: Koto... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Lay, Peace, confusion,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 04 1970 Tassajara
April 12th, 1970, Serial No. 00226 Hate, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Enemies, difficulty, Attachment, lecture, Demons...	Katagiri Roshi	Apr 12 1970
April 10th, 1970, Serial No. 00224 realization, stubbornness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Ego, Happiness	Katagiri Roshi	Apr 10 1970

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