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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-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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Teachings for the Welfare of the WorldIn this summer series, teachings will be offered for those who aspire to embrace and sustain the great earth and all living beings in order to realize peace and freedom in our troubled world ...YRB-2019-Summer, Balance, Building, difficulty, Evil, Japan, Passions, Priest,... |
Jul 30 2019 6/7 The Yoga Room |
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Sojun Roshi's 90th Birthday Party Building, Dharma Transmission, Fundraising, Lay, Priest, Tassajara, Teacher-and-... |
Jul 20 2019 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Beat Zen Square Zen and Zen Birth-and-Death, Duality, Lay, Monastic Practice, Non-duality, Priest, Tassajara, War... |
Jul 13 2019 |
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Teachings for the Welfare of the WorldIn this summer series, teachings will be offered for those who aspire to embrace and sustain the great earth and all living beings in order to realize peace and freedom in our troubled world. YRB-2019-Summer, Enthusiasm, Evil, Karmic Consciousness, Letting Go, Silence,... |
Jun 25 2019 1/7 The Yoga Room |
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About the ShusoSerial: BZ-02688 Sesshin Day 5
Bell, Cultivation, Mindfulness, Posture, Practice Period, Precepts, Priest, Tassajara... |
Jun 23 2019 |
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Practice Period 31st Opening Sesshin Birth-and-Death, Bodhidharma, Commitment, Monastic Practice, Practice Period,... |
May 11 2019 |
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Reflections on Zen Understanding Book of Serenity, Tassajara, Samadhi |
Apr 07 2019 |
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Generating Energy Breath, Emotions, Enthusiasm, Patience, Tassajara |
Mar 09 2019 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Three Turnings of the Wheel Bell, cognitive process, Don't Know Mind, Four Foundations of Mindfulness,... |
Jan 26 2019 |
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New Year's Vow Practice: Dogen, Joanna Macy, and Rebecca SolnitSerial: TL-00575 ADZG Sunday Morning, Book of Serenity, New Year, Tassajara |
Dec 30 2018 Ancient Dragon Zen Gate |
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Silent Sitting & Social ActionSerial: RA-04451 Zen students often ask how our practice of silence and stillness relates to injustice and our environmental crisis. In this class we explore this question and study the... YRB-2018-Fall, Silence, Attachment, Daily Life, Desire, Duality, Tassajara, Passions... |
Nov 27 2018 7 of 7 The Yoga Room |
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Refuge in Buddha: Don't Run Away from YourselfSerial: TL-00551 ADZG Monday Night, Lay Ordination, Sanctuary, Ordination, Tassajara, Dharma Transmission |
Nov 12 2018 Ancient Dragon Zen Gate |
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Silent Sitting and Social ActionAll compounded phenomena are unworthy of confidence. Compassion to these unstable phenomena is our practice. Zen stories are about enacting awakening within social interactions. Attend to your body,... Compassion, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Practice Period, Practice Period,... |
Oct 20 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Eight Awarenesses of Great Beings (Study Sesshin Part 1)Serial: BZ-02632 Study Sesshin Part 1
Bodhisattva Precepts, Concentration, Greed, Mahayana, Mindfulness, Nirvana, Precepts... |
Sep 01 2018 |
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Beating the Drum Buddha Ancestors, Confession-and-Repentance, Daily Life, Heart Sutra, Ordination,... |
Aug 11 2018 |
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No Recipe Passions, Mindfulness, Dharma Transmission, Anger, Happiness, Transmission,... |
Jul 21 2018 |
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Preferences, Expectations, Letting GoSerial: BZ-02619 Sesshin Day 3
Blue Cliff Record, Book of Serenity, Daily Life, Ego, Hindrances, Oneness, Tassajara... |
Jun 15 2018 |
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Topography of Bodhisattva Practices: WisdomSerial: TL-00524 ADZG Sesshin, Vimalakirti, Oneness, Manjushri, Tassajara |
Jun 02 2018 Ancient Dragon Zen Gate |
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The Heart of Priest and Lay Practice Priest, Gaining Mind, Lay, Lay Practice, Ego, Practice Period, Priest-and-Lay,... |
Apr 21 2018 |
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Watch the Set-Up CarefullyListening to each others' stories; Scheherazade and the Thousand and One Nights; Avalokitesvara, Bodhidharma, Tassajara |
Nov 11 2017 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Wherever you are Enlightenment is Here Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Commitment, Continuous Practice, Ego, First Principle,... |
Oct 14 2017 |
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Wider Views of Self and RelatednessSerial: TL-00488 ADZG Monday Night, Letting Go, Monastic Practice, Tassajara, Renunciation |
Oct 09 2017 Ancient Dragon Zen Gate |
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Beyond Calmness of Mind Birth-and-Death, Building, Continuous Practice, Conversation, First Principle,... |
Oct 07 2017 |
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The Solar Eclipse and Lunar Poems from SaigyoSerial: TL-00481 ADZG Monday Night, Letting Go, Freedom, Liberation, Attachment, Tassajara |
Aug 21 2017 Ancient Dragon Zen Gate |
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Interconnectedness: Embracing the Universal Dharma Observe, Tassajara, Manjushri |
Jul 09 2017 |
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Sei Jo and Her Soul Are Separated Blue Cliff Record, Daily Life, Forgiveness, Separation, Constancy, Diversity, Oneness... |
May 13 2017 |
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Joshu Cuts the Cat Duality, Buddha Nature, Book of Serenity, Hate, Demons, Peace, Priest, Evil,... |
Mar 04 2017 |
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Eight Aspects of Enlightened Activity Eight Aspects, Discrimination, Right Speech, Concentration, Separation, Daily Life,... |
Jan 07 2017 |
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The Flexibility of Zazen TimeSerial: TL-00431 ADZG Monday Night, Buddha Ancestors, Continuous Practice, Tassajara |
Aug 22 2016 Ancient Dragon Zen Gate |