“Being present at a birth is inspiring. Being present at a death can also open us to vastness and love.”
Alive Until You’re Dead – A New Book by Susan Moon
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Features
Meet Erin Merk: Zen Priest and Innovative High School Teacher
Erin appreciates and enjoys the opportunity to be around young people in an educational environment with so much learning energy and interesting faculty members.
To Polish a Tile Is Our Practice Actually: Awakening the Archive, Tape 18
“Almost all the experiences you have, will be already told by some of our patriarchs. They are waiting for you to experience something always.”
Tassajara’s Gate Opens for the Guest Season!
May the healing energy of this valley, and the transformative power of practice, nourish and sustain all of us, and all who enter this gate.
Jukai Ceremony at City Center April 23
Congratulations to three initiates who received the precepts in a ceremony at City Center on April 23. The preceptor was Keiryu Lien Shutt.
Pamela Weiss on Cultivating a Mind of Great Faith
Pamela is drawn to the “Hsin Hsin Ming” because it helps illuminate how we can live an undivided life.
Buddhism Is Not a Special Teaching; Enlightenment Is Not a Particular Stage: Awakening the Archive, Tape 17
“What you see, what you understand, in term of concept, is not always true. This is the secret of Buddhism.”
Congratulations to Winter 2022 Shusos
Congratulations to Winter 2022 shusos Koei Kim Hart and Kodo Conlin.
Preparations for Fire Season at Tassajara
“Hopefully, one day good fire can be reintroduced to the land here, coordinated with local cultural burning practices; these small burns are a start.”