"One of the worst feelings is to feel utterly alone," says former SFZC abbot Zoketsu Norman Fischer, "but it’s impossible to ever be alone." In the...
Life Is Hard: Zoketsu Norman Fischer on the Necessity of Love and Compassion
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Branching Streams of Northern California: Introducing Occidental Laguna Sangha
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In Celebration of Summer Solstice
As is tradition, summer solstice is observed with a ceremony at Tassajara Zen Heart-Mind Temple. Zenshin Greg Fain, Head of Practice, delivered...
Sangha Is Crucial to Our Way
Sangha Project
The Zen Poetry of Aging: Three Brief Teachings
Zen poets for centuries have addressed the experience of aging in ways that may resonate with and clarify our own experience of it. Below are three...
A Summer Dish Worth the Drive: Enchiladas Rojas by Melinda Miller
Summer guest season at Tassajara offers luscious farm-to-table organic vegetarian cuisine that stems from the Zen tradition of attending to our food...
Comings and Goings in the Valley
We are four and a half weeks into our summer guest season, and over 200 guests have travelled here to enjoy the lush spring landscape, the...
The Long Road to Sitting Still, by Pico Iyer
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Ethics and Investments: A Message from the Central Abbess
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