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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	Date
Way Seeking Mind Talk Serial: BZ-01130 Monday Morning talk Confession-and-Repentance, Tassajara, Practice Period, Karma, Building, Repentance,...	Gerry Oliva	May 05 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Just Wholeheartedly Sit and Offer Offering, Lotus Sutra, Tassajara	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Dec 08 2007
Can I Trust This Practice? What Else is There? Serial: BZ-01104B Rohatsu Day 6 Renunciation, Monastic Practice, Book of Serenity, Peace, Bell, War, Ego, Greed,...	Mary Mocine	Dec 07 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
Illumination of Zazen Serial: BZ-01099 Absorption in the Treasury of Light, Rohatsu Day 1 Zazen, Blue Cliff Record, Silent Illumination, Light-and-Darkness, Samadhi, Manjushri...	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 Rumi, Emotions, Tassajara, Money	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Oct 21 2007 Green Gulch Farm
The Great Vow of Wholeheartedness and Taking Care of Our Stories Serial: RA-03483 Green Gulch Farm Sunday Dharma Talk October 21, 2007 Rumi, Emotions, Tassajara, Money, Equanimity, Zazen, Posture	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Oct 21 2007 Green Gulch Farm
"Cooking Your Life" (Uchiyama and Dogen): Meeting the Source Serial: BZ-00992 Teaching Retreat, part 1 of 2 Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Position, Practice Position, Intuition, Discrimination,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 01 2007 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Meditation in Action: The Crosses of Lafayette Serial: BZ-00991 Saturday Lecture Chanting, War, Patience, Practice Period, Lay Practice, Tassajara, Peace, Samsara,...	Baika Andrea Pratt	Aug 25 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
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, Monastic Practice, Dogen, Tassajara, Offering,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 04 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
Way Seeking Mind Serial: BZ-01446 Monday morning talk Politics, Religion, Practice Period, Enemies, Tassajara, Culture, War	Ken Knabb	Jul 02 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
Fundraising History of Berkeley Zen Center Development Serial: BZ-01438 Saturday Lecture Fundraising, Building, Fundraising, Priest, Tassajara, Enthusiasm, Commitment...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 02 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
Intimacy Through Timeless Tales Intimacy, Tassajara, japanese	Tenshin Reb Anderson	May 14 2007
Ethics in our Sangha Serial: BZ-01417 Monday Morning Talk Practice Period, Vow, Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Evil, Tassajara, Conversation,...	Gerry Oliva	Feb 05 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
Commentary on "Brown Rice is Just Right" Serial: BZ-01401 Suzuki-rôshi's lecture in "Not Always So", Rohatsu Day 1 Suzuki Roshi, Teacher-and-Student, Monastic Practice, Sixth Patriarch, Big Mind,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 27 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Precepts - Minor Precepts as Attitude Serial: BZ-01398 Our own Vinaya that will help our Practice, Monday Morning Precepts, Vinaya, Precepts, Humility, Bodhisattva Precepts, Emotions, Vinaya,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 13 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
2006.11.11-ZMC Repentance, Confession-and-Repentance, Faith, Non-duality, Tassajara, Desire, War...	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Nov 11 2006 Tassajara
Sojun Gives Doan and Kokyo Training: Chanting and Bells Serial: BZ-01046 Class Bell, Heart Sutra, Chanting, Harmonizing, Don't Know Mind, Sangha, Bowing,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 28 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Eventual Transition of Abbacy Serial: BZ-01389 Practice Positions Complete Practice; Small and Large Equal, Saturday Lecture Practice Position, Transmission, Practice Position, Dharma Transmission, Ego,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 30 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Shining Practice: Growing up in a Zendo (Kid Zendo) Serial: BZ-01386 Saturday Lecture Bell, Family Practice, Transmission, Offering, Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission...	Shosan Victoria Austin	Sep 16 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Three Topics: Flowers Instead of Incense; Use of the “Wake-up” Stick; Mel’s Trip to Bhutan Serial: BZ-01180 Saturday Lecture Culture, Offering, Happiness, Tassajara, War, Lay	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 25 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record Case #55: “Alive or Dead?” Remembering John King Serial: BZ-01178 Saturday Lecture Death-and-Dying, Blue Cliff Record, Tassajara, Practice Period, Anger, Ego, Patience...	Mary Mocine	Aug 12 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Practice Period Serial: SF-00034 Origins of PP, meaning of 'ango'; Dogen's essay; resistance; hermit Jim; Rumi poems. Practice Period, Dongshan, Dogen, Rumi, Buddha Ancestors, Ceremony, Zazen, Duality,...	Kokyo Henkel	Feb 19 2006 Green Gulch Farm
Blue Cliff Record: Case #86: "Everyone Has Their Light" Serial: BZ-01205 Temple Storehouse, Temple Gate, Rohatsu Day 5 Ummon, BCR-86, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Darkness-and-Light, Buddha Ancestors, Hindrances...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 02 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
From "Not Always So" Serial: BZ-01198 "Find Out For Yourself", Saturday Lecture Instruction, Monastic Practice, Ego, Intuition, Big Mind, Tassajara, Practice Period...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 12 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
“Not Always So” from Not Always So Serial: BZ-01037A Class 2 of 4 Conversation, Vow, Precepts, Zoom, Beginners, Composure, Enemies, Evil, Tassajara,...	Richard Haefele	Nov 03 2005 2 Berkeley Zen Center
An Ordination History Serial: BZ-01192 Saturday Lecture Ordination, Priest, Priest, Monastic Practice, Lay Practice, Lay, Renunciation,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 08 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Our Women Ancestors Serial: BZ-01190 Women's Sitting Lineage, Chanting, Rinzai, Lay Practice, Dharma Transmission, Teacher-and-Student,...	Mary Mocine	Sep 25 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Book of Serenity Case #7: On Thinking “Inside the Box” Serial: BZ-01187 Saturday Lecture Bowing, Blue Cliff Record, Daily Life, Fox, Bell, Tassajara, Priest, Funeral,...	Peter Overton	Sep 10 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Dining Room Lecture Tassajara, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, Suzuki Roshi, Practice Period, Tassajara,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Sep 03 2005 Tassajara
The Path to Transmission and Beyond (Kid Zendo): The Same Rituals But Different Intentions Serial: BZ-01342 Saturday Lecture Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Buddha Ancestors, Commitment, Priest, Addiction,...	Myoan Grace Schireson	Aug 20 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Internal Wellspring of Wisdom and Love Book of Serenity, Suzuki Roshi, Tassajara, Cooking, Buddha Nature, Evil, Desire...	Edward Espe Brown	Aug 18 2005 Tassajara
Mumonkan Case #9: Wash Your Bowls—ZBA Zen Business Associates Bell, Tassajara, Instruction, Humility, Intimacy, Greed, Culture, Religion	Marc Lesser	Aug 06 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Embracing Imperfection, Cultivating Wisdom Tassajara, Paramitas, Patience, Addiction, Way-Seeking Mind, Impermanence	Edward Espe Brown	Jul 31 2005 Green Gulch Farm
Unknown Title Serial: BZ-00575 Lecture Precepts, Obstacles, Tassajara, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Duality, Monastic...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 16 2005 Tassajara
Bodhidharma and Buddha Nature Practice Period, Hongzhi, Tassajara	Taigen Dan Leighton	Jul 11 2005 Tassajara
Bodhidharma and Buddha Nature Genjokoan, Book of Serenity, Buddha Mind, Tassajara, Nirvana, Practice Period,...	Taigen Dan Leighton	Jul 10 2005 Tassajara
Reflections on My Life Serial: BZ-01335 76th Birthday, Saturday Lecture Sojun Mel Weitsman, Priest, Lay Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Lay, Tassajara, Causation,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 08 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Shuso Ceremony Serial: BZ-01333 Tips for Questioners and Shuso, Sesshin Day 5 Shuso Ceremony, Intuition, Tassajara, Practice Period, Commitment, War	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 26 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Zazen Tips Serial: BZ-01330 Dealing with Pain and Sitting in a Chair, Sesshin Day 2 Zazen, Pain, Posture, Discrimination, Don't Know Mind, Non-discrimination,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 23 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Eight Practices of Bodhisattva, Tibetan Tradition, Bodhisattva Song and Kid Zendo Day Serial: BZ-01328 Saturday Lecture Lotus Sutra, Dharma Transmission, Patience, Tassajara, Cultivation, Humility,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jun 18 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan Serial: BZ-01035A Class 5 of 5 Daily Life, Offering, Monastic Practice, Soto Zen, Birth-and-Death, Tassajara, Priest...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 16 2005 5 Berkeley Zen Center
June 16th, 2005, Serial No. 01551 Offering, Birth-and-Death, Tassajara, Equanimity, Nirvana, Religion		Jun 16 2005
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00584 Sesshin day 7 Tassajara, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Emotions, Zoom, Demons, Hindrances,...	Leslie James	Mar 29 2005 Tassajara
On Race Serial: BZ-00601 Sesshin Day 7 Diversity, Culture, Lay, Discrimination, Hate, Soto Zen, Silence, confusion, Bell,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 29 2005 Tassajara
Sesshin Lecture Serial: SF-01931 Sesshin 3 Day 7 Practice, Tassajara, Time	Leslie James	Mar 29 2005 Tassajara
Teacher-Student Relationships Serial: BZ-00599 Hierarchy, Sesshin Day 5 Teacher-and-Student, Teacher-and-Student, Precepts, Anger, Intimacy, Practice Period...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 27 2005
Precepts, Student-Teacher Relationship Serial: BZ-00598 Sesshin Day 4 Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Precepts, Observe, Teacher-and-Student, Ego, Big Mind...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 26 2005 Tassajara

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