Tassajara 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 feet (1,549 m) high Chews Ridge via a narrow, steep, 13.7 miles (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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KarmaSerial: BZ-01351 Saturday Lecture Karma, Karma, Conversation, Nirvana Sutra, Buddha Nature, Tassajara, Teacher-and-... |
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, Commitment, Monastic Practice, confusion, Practice Period, Conversation,... |
Jul 09 2003 Green Gulch |
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June 20th, 2003, Serial No. 01345, Side B Peace, Mindfulness, Subject-and-Object, Observe, Tassajara, Religion, Zoom, Bowing,... |
Jun 20 2003 |
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May 12th, 2003, Serial No. 00135, Side B Heart Sutra, Religion, Politics, Tassajara, Practice Period, Conversation, training,... |
May 12 2003 |
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March 29th, 2003, Serial No. 00134, Side A Tassajara, Practice Period, War, Fox, confusion, Subject-and-Object, Fundraising,... |
Mar 29 2003 |
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Sesshin Lecture Fox, Practice Period, Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Tassajara, Attachment, Karma,... |
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, Suzuki Roshi, Big Mind, Teacher-and-Student... |
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, Practice Period, Mill Valley, training, Rumi, Vows, Intimacy, Commitment,... |
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,... |
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, confusion,... |
Jun 12 2002 City Center |
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June 8th, 2002, Serial No. 00149, Side A Bowing, Chanting, Describe, Tassajara, Doubt, Ego |
Jun 08 2002 |
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June 6th, 2002, Serial No. 00452 Dragons, Monastic Practice, Buddha Nature, Tassajara, Concentration, Chanting, Bowing... |
Jun 06 2002 |
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June 6th, 2002, Serial No. 01013, Side A Dragons, Buddha Nature, Tassajara, Monastic Practice, Concentration, training,... |
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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May 16th, 2002, Serial No. 00449 Composure, Daily Life, Tassajara, Offering, Posture, Emotions, Attachment,... |
May 16 2002 |
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May 16th, 2002, Serial No. 01010, Side A Soto Zen, Composure, soto, Daily Life, Tassajara, Offering, Emotions, Rinzai,... |
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, Emptiness, Zendo, Big... |
May 12 2002 Green Gulch |
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Tenzo KyokunSerial: BZ-00147A One-Day Sitting Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Position, Practice Period, Tassajara, Instruction, Big Mind,... |
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, Mindfulness... |
Apr 07 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Arbor DaySerial: SF-01071 Sunday Lecture Commitment, Tassajara, Non-violence, Nirvana, Practice Period, Continuous,... |
Feb 10 2002 Green Gulch |
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February 3rd, 2002, Serial No. 04338 Duality, Manjushri, Tassajara, Faith |
Feb 03 2002 |
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October 13th, 2001, Serial No. 04345 Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Evil, Blue Cliff Record, Echo, Tassajara |
Oct 13 2001 |
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October 4th, 2001, Serial No. 00477 War, Bell, Priest, Tassajara, Precepts, Posture, Branching Streams, Soto Zen,... |
Oct 04 2001 |
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September 29th, 2001, Serial No. 00092, Side A Offering, Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, Echo, Patience, Bowing, Passions, Tassajara,... |
Sep 29 2001 |
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2001.07.25-serial.00073Serial: SF-00073 Wednesday night. Anger, Mill Valley, Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Tassajara, Bowing, Heart Sutra, Hate,... |
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, 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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ial No. 00482 Bell, Tassajara, Doubt, Harmonizing, Ego |
2001 |
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ial No. 00483 Bell, Tassajara, Practice Period, Hate, Offering, Forgiveness, Echo, Interview,... |
2001 |
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ial No. 00484 Tassajara, Practice Period, War, Culture, Instruction, American, training |
2001 |
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ial No. 00485 Tassajara, Conversation, Instruction, Monastic Practice, Bell, War, Manjushri,... |
2001 |
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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, Cultivation... |
Nov 25 2000 City Center |
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November 22nd, 2000, Serial No. 03936 Ceremony, Gratitude, Emptiness, Separation, Practice Period, Tassajara, Suzuki Roshi... |
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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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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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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May 20th, 2000, Serial No. 00162, Side B Rinzai, Concentration, Heart Sutra, Tassajara, Buddha Nature, training, Priest,... |
May 20 2000 |
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Branching Streams Flow in the DarknessSerial: BZ-00161B Saturday Lecture Sandokai, Branching Streams, Light-and-Darkness, Absolute-and-Relative, Birth-and-... |
May 06 2000 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Branching Streams Flow in the DarknessSerial: BZ-00161A Light and Darkness, Saturday Lecture Sandokai, Branching Streams, Light-and-Darkness, Light-and-Darkness, Darkness and... |
Apr 29 2000 Berkeley Zen Center |