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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Title	Speaker	Date
What Makes Zen Center Run Practice Period, Teacher-and-Student, Practice Position, Family Practice, Priest-and-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 22 2015
Ummon's Every Day Is A Good Day - 2 Big Mind, Practice Period, Continuous, Sixth Patriarch, Gratitude, Ego, resistance,...	Susan Marvin	May 30 2015
Hyakujo and the Fox Fox, Karma, Book of Serenity, Separation, causation, Attachment, Beginners,...	Ron Nestor	Nov 01 2014
Pick Up a Speck of Dust Big Mind, Birth-and-Death, First Principle, Blue Cliff Record, Peace, Constancy,...	Laurie Senauke	Oct 18 2014
The Widow's Son Karma, confusion, Tassajara, Building, Anger, Lay	Meghan Collins	Aug 16 2014
The Stone Bridge of Joshu Blue Cliff Record, Ordinary Mind, Practice Period, stubbornness, Tassajara,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	May 31 2014
The Good Friendship of Shitou, Matsu and Yaoshan Shitou, Mazu, Yaoshan, Koan, Teacher-and-Student, Perfect Wisdom, Manjushri, Karmic...	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Feb 01 2014 Morning No Abode Hermitage
Berkeley Zen Center in 2013 Serial: BZ-02344 Saturday Lecture Work, Practice Period, New Year, Tassajara, Family Practice, Ego, Continuous,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 14 2013 Berkeley Zen Center
Lay Ordination Serial: BZ-02312 History of American Lay Ordination, Saturday Lecture Jukai, Lay Ordination, Lay, Priest, Lay Practice, Precepts, Ordination, Lineage,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 15 2013 Berkeley Zen Center
Sandokai Lecture Six Serial: BZ-02284 Couplet 12, Rohatsu Day 7 Diversity, Absolute-and-Relative, Tassajara, Oneness, Daily Life, resistance, Nirvana...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2012 Berkeley Zen Center
My Three Weeks in Europe Serial: BZ-02265 Zen in Europe, Saturday Lecture Kobun Chino, Vanya Palmers, Culture, Building, Religion, Priest, Tassajara, American...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 15 2012 Berkeley Zen Center
Zazen and Willingness Ego, Posture, Blue Cliff Record, Silence, Instruction, Offering, Dharma Transmission...	Mary Mocine	Jul 14 2012
Family Practice Serial: BZ-02245 Saturday Lecture Zazen, Family Practice, Practice Period, Intuition, Observe, Bell, Tassajara,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 16 2012 Berkeley Zen Center
Suffering and Delight - Darlene Cohen Mindfulness, training, Book of Serenity, Tassajara, Priest, Practice Period, Vows,...	Gerri Oliva	Feb 11 2012
The Teaching Just For You Dragons, Observe, Culture, Buddha Nature, American, Interdependence, Bodhidharma,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Dec 09 2011
The Heart of Our Forms Precepts, Monastic Practice, Practice Period, Aspects of Practice, Family Practice,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 25 2011
Monastic Practice Serial: BZ-02206 Founding of Tassajara, Saturday Lecture Bodhisattva, Suzuki Roshi, Monastic Practice, Practice Period, Composure, American,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 24 2011 Berkeley Zen Center
Xiang Yan hears the sound of stones striking bamboo Duality, Blue Cliff Record, Tassajara, Koan, Commitment	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Sep 10 2011 Morning No Abode Hermitage
Fire Monks Tassajara, Equanimity, Monastic Practice, Don't Know Mind, Building, resistance...	Colleen Busch and David Zimmerman	Aug 06 2011
Who Am I? Serial: BZ-02195 Abhidharma, Saturday Lecture Who Are You? "Don't know" mind. Skandas, Bodhidharma, Big Mind, Karma, Bodhidharma, Discrimination, Buddha Mind,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 30 2011 Berkeley Zen Center
Breathing Mindfulness, Zazen Mind, Four Foundations, Instruction, Concentration, Rinzai,...	Ron Nestor	Jul 23 2011
Pulling Out The Thorn Ordinary Mind, Four Noble Truths, Attachment, Daily Life, Tassajara, training,...	Gil Fronsdal	Jul 16 2011
Intimate Zen, Perfect Wisdom Serial: BZ-02154 Other Perfect Wisdom, Heart Sutra, Dharma Transmission, Four Noble Truths, true dharma,...	Shosan Victoria Austin	Jan 29 2011 Berkeley Zen Center
Resuming Big Mind Part Two Serial: BZ-02144 Trikaya, Rohatsu Day 2 Trikaya, Sambhogakaya, Dharmakaya, Nirmanakaya, Monkey Mind, Pure Existence, Buddha...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 06 2010 Berkeley Zen Center
Intimacy with Birth and Death: The 39th Yearly Memorial for Suzuki Roshi Tassajara, Commitment, Suzuki Roshi, Intimacy, Japan	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Dec 04 2010 Afternoon No Abode Hermitage
Receiving With Gratitude Practice Period, Intimacy, Lotus Sutra, Gratitude, Tassajara, Anger, Patience,...	Linda Galijan	Nov 20 2010
Facing the Wall for Nine Years Tassajara, Lotus Sutra, Attachment, true dharma, Impermanence	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Sep 18 2010 Morning No Abode Hermitage
Composure and Composition Composure, Four Noble Truths, Tassajara, Mindfulness, Practice Period, Instruction,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jun 05 2010
Training for the Selfless Heart Desire, Anger, Posture, Attachment, Tassajara	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Mar 25 2010 The Yoga Room
Everything is Presenting Itself Serial: BZ-02070 Consciousness, Rohatsu Day 3 Intimacy, Culture, Dharma Transmission, Heart Sutra, Tassajara, Precepts, Gratitude,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Meditation on Pride Samdhinirmochana Sutra Chapter Four, Afternoon No Abode 8/15/09 PM Doubt, Silence, Tassajara, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Suzuki Roshi	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Aug 08 2009 Afternoon No Abode Hermitage
Causation and Non-Self causation, Faith, Tassajara	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Apr 16 2009 The Yoga Room
Waking Up From the Dream of Economic Security Serial: BZ-01090B Saturday Lecture Enemies, Happiness, Dream World, Tassajara, Practice Period, Building, Forgiveness,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 07 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Forbearance Practice Khanti Paramita: Engaged Buddhism (Prison Work): Serial No. 01075 Paramitas, Engaged Buddhism, Lotus Sutra, Politics, Two Truths, Absolute-and-Relative...	Greg Fain	Nov 29 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Being with the conditions we find ourselves in: Meeting the Tassajara fire: Serial No. 01159 Serial: BZ-01159 Saturday talk Tassajara, Enemies, Building, Anger, Impermanence, Practice Period, Buddha Nature,...	Myogen Steve Stücky	Sep 20 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
August 23rd, 2008, Serial No. 01152 Teacher-and-Student, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Commitment, War, Harmonizing,...		Aug 23 2008
July 26th, 2008, Serial No. 01149 Ordinary Mind, Instruction, Lotus Sutra, Teacher-and-Student, Passions, Daily Life,...		Jul 26 2008
May 5th, 2008, Serial No. 01130 Confession-and-Repentance, Tassajara, Practice Period, Karma, Building, Repentance,...		May 05 2008
December 7th, 2007, Serial No. 01104, Side B Renunciation, Monastic Practice, Book of Serenity, Peace, Bell, War, Ego, Greed,...		Dec 07 2007
Illumination of Zazen Serial: BZ-01099 Absorption in the Treasury of Light, Rohatsu Day 1 Zazen, BCR-, Silent Illumination, Light-and-Darkness, Samadhi, Manjushri, Intuition,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 02 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
The Great Vow of Wholeheartedness and Taking Care of Our Stories Green Gulch Farm Sunday Dharma Talk October 21, 2007 zen meditation, Rumi, Emotions, Tassajara, Money	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Oct 21 2007 Green Gulch Farm
"Cooking Your Life" (Uchiyama and Dogen) Serial: BZ-00992 Meeting the Source, Teaching Retreat Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Position, Practice Position, Intuition, Discrimination,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 01 2007 Part 1 of 2 Berkeley Zen Center
August 25th, 2007, Serial No. 00991 War, Patience, Practice Period, training, Lay Practice, Tassajara, Peace, Samsara,...		Aug 25 2007
BCR: Case #74: "Kingyu Osho-Rice Pot" (Dear Bodhisattvas) Serial: BZ-00988 BCR: Case #93: "Taiko's 'You For Devil'", Saturday Lecture BCR-74, Buddha Mind, Gratitude, Fox, Observe, Monastic Practice, Dogen, Tassajara,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 04 2007 Berkeley Zen Center

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