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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The Dharma of Mindfulness: Tassajara GathasSerial: BZ-00903A Saturday Lecture Mindfulness, Tassajara, Gathas, Mindfulness, Monastic Practice, Daily Life,... |
Nov 05 1983 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Practicing Without HindranceSerial: BZ-00396A Seeing the Absolute and Relative, Saturday Lecture Practice, Absolute-and-Relative, Hindrances, Daily Life, Discrimination, Teacher-and-... |
Aug 27 1983 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Developing Your Own Authority to PracticeSerial: BZ-00399A Saturday Lecture Practice, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, training, Tassajara, Doubt, Peace... |
Jun 18 1983 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Heart Sutra: Gate, Gate, ParagateSerial: BZ-00001A The Mantra of Your Life, Sesshin Day 5 Daily Life, Heart Sutra, Zazen Mind, Tassajara, Priest, Concentration, Bowing,... |
May 15 1983 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Bodhisattva MindSerial: BZ-00003B Saturday Lecture Building, Enthusiasm, Mindfulness, Separation, training, Tassajara, Offering,... |
Apr 23 1983 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Practice is Enlightenment, Ridgepole CeremonySerial: BZ-00043B Saturday Lecture Subject-and-Object, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Building, Study Period,... |
Oct 30 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Japanese Practice/American Practice: DifferencesSerial: BZ-00039A Saturday Lecture Japan, American, Lay Practice, Family Practice, American, Lay, Lotus Sutra, Tassajara... |
Sep 04 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Work Sesshin: Building the New Zendo Study Period, Building, Non-violence, Happiness, Mindfulness, Tassajara, Religion,... |
Aug 21 1982 |
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WorkSerial: BZ-00035 Saturday Lecture Building, Lay Practice, Enthusiasm, Mindfulness, Separation, Tassajara, training, Lay... |
Aug 14 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Blue Cliff Record: Case #80Serial: BZ-00033 Does a Baby Have the 6th Consciousness?, Saturday Lecture Consciousness, Storehouse Consciousness, Monastic Practice, Discrimination, Buddha... |
Jul 31 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Women's Practice Family Practice, Enthusiasm, Transmission, Tassajara, Culture, Instruction,... |
May 30 1982 |
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Fundraising for the New ZendoSerial: BZ-00007B What is Our Basis?, Sesshin Day 4 Fundraising, Zendo, Berkeley Zen Center, Sangha, Building, Samadhi, Fundraising, Non-... |
May 22 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Vigor During SesshinSerial: BZ-00007A Soto and Rinzai Practice Compared, Sesshin Day 3 Sesshin, Soto Zen, Rinzai, Rinzai, soto, Composure, Tassajara, Soto Zen, Continuous,... |
May 21 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Effort: The Fourth Paramita (Virya)Serial: BZ-00009A Blue Cliff Record: Case #5(?) "Beating the Drum", Saturday Lecture
Paramitas, Virya, Koan, Buddha Mind, Patience, Concentration, Chanting, Monastic... |
Apr 24 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Pure Effort In Everyday Busy LifeSerial: BZ-00020 Saturday Lecture Posture, New Year Celebration, Pure Effort, Don't Know Mind, Practice Period,... |
Jan 02 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Not Taking What is Not GivenSerial: BZ-00021B Saturday Lecture Precept of Not Stealing, What is practice, giving, Freedom, caretaking, Lay,... |
Dec 11 1981 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Unification of Body and MindSerial: BZ-01058A Lecture Religion, Precepts, Buddhism, Priest, Darkness and Light, American, Tassajara, War,... |
May 16 1980 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center |
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February 27th, 1972, Serial No. 00187 Intuition, Interdependence, Lotus Sutra, Ceremony, training, lecture, Pain, American... |
Feb 27 1972 |
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February 8th, 1972, Serial No. 00188 Bell, Ceremony, Tassajara, Discrimination, Chanting, Oneness, Liberation, Nirvana,... |
Feb 08 1972 |
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February 1972 talk, Serial No. 00181, Side B Zendo, Building, Tassajara, Intention |
Feb 1972 |
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February 1972 talk, Serial No. 00182 Building, Tassajara, confusion, difficulty, Community, training, Compassion,... |
Feb 1972 |
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December 6th, 1971, Serial No. 00290 Pain, Beginners, Birth-and-Death, Hate, Commitment, Tassajara, Liberation, Describe,... |
Dec 06 1971 |
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December 5th, 1971, Serial No. 00289 Buddha Mind, Discrimination, Liberation, Oneness, training, Hate, lecture,... |
Dec 05 1971 |
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December 2nd, 1971, Serial No. 00286 Describe, Impermanence, Tassajara, Attachment, realization, Gratitude |
Dec 02 1971 |
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December 1971 talk, Serial No. 00292 Buddha Mind, Gratitude, training, Discrimination, Tassajara, Chanting, Observe,... |
Dec 1971 |
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November 27th, 1971, Serial No. 00282 Consciousness, Describe, Separation, Buddha Nature, Monastic Practice, Bell,... |
Nov 27 1971 |
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November 5th, 1971, Serial No. 00279 Ceremony, training, lecture, Dragons, Mahayana, Building, confusion, Funeral,... |
Nov 05 1971 |
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October 3rd, 1971, Serial No. 00062 Precepts, stubbornness, Four Noble Truths, Observe, Pain, Mindfulness, Tassajara,... |
Oct 03 1971 |
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October 2nd, 1971, Serial No. 00059 Four Noble Truths, stubbornness, Suffering, Soto Zen, Instruction, Nirvana,... |
Oct 02 1971 |
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Wherever You Are, We Have Zen Way Of PracticeDogen, Shobogenzo, Genjokoan, Suffering, Pain, Don't Know Mind, Happiness,... |
Aug 21 1971 City Center |
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May 5th, 1971, Serial No. 00334 Hate, Interdependence, Tassajara, Breath, Attachment, training, Pain |
May 05 1971 |
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April 25th, 1971, Serial No. 00330 Breath, Perfect Wisdom, Describe, Building, Instruction, Tassajara, Lay, Ceremony,... |
Apr 25 1971 |
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The Driver Anger, difficulty, Karma, Freedom, Tassajara, Peace, confusion, Posture, Pain, War... |
Feb 27 1971 City Center |
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December 1970 talk, Serial No. 00216 Transmission, Meditation, Tassajara, Hindrances, Samadhi, Concentration, Religion,... |
Dec 1970 |
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Do Not Pass Your Days and Nights in VainSerial: SR-00221 Sandokai Lecture XIII: “Don't Spend Your Time in Vain” [This lecture is concerned with the following lines of the Sandokai:... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Sixth Patriarch, Dogen, difficulty, sitting, zen,... |
Jul 06 1970 Tassajara |
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We Should Not Stick to Words or Rules Too MuchSerial: SR-00222 Sandokai Lecture XII: “It Is Not Always So” [This lecture is concerned with the following lines of the Sandokai: Koto... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Tassajara, Lay, Peace, confusion, lecture, Truth... |
Jul 04 1970 Tassajara |
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April 12th, 1970, Serial No. 00226 Hate, Tassajara, Enemies, difficulty, Attachment, lecture, Demons, Happiness,... |
Apr 12 1970 |
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April 10th, 1970, Serial No. 00224 realization, stubbornness, Tassajara, Ego, Happiness |
Apr 10 1970 |
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OLD - Practice To Be Like A StoneSerial: SR-00008 Saturday, February 28, 1970 Don't Know Mind, Tassajara, Composure, training, sitting |
Feb 28 1970 City Center |
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Practice To Be Like A StoneSerial: SF-06125 SR-70-02-28 Sesshin lecture #6 (last lecture) - followed by service #2 for Trudy Dixon Don't Know Mind, Composure, Diversity, Tassajara, training |
Feb 28 1970 City Center |
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Some QuestionsQuestion-and-Answer, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, sitting, Tassajara, Offering,... |
Aug 28 1969 Tassajara |
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Eulogy For Trudy Dixon Given During Her Funeral CeremonySerial: SR-00028 Words from the funeral eulogy for Trudy Dixon. Magnanimous mind Tassajara, Dogen, Buddha Mind, Buddha Mind, Passions, Compassion |
Jul 11 1969 Sokoji |
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Rinzai Zen and Soto ZenSerial: SR-00033 July 1969 Morning. Dogen, Buddha Nature, Evil, Freedom, Priest, Ego, Tassajara, Transmission, Culture,... |
Jul 1969 Sokoji |