by Sangha News editor | Mar 29, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Features
Congratulations to Winter 2019 Practice Period shusos at City Center/Beginner’s Mind Temple and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center! Photos at Beginner’s Mind Temple by Dana Velden and photo at Tassajara by Shundo David Haye.
by Sangha News editor | Jul 9, 2019 | News, Zen Practice
To Greg Fain and the residents at Tassajara, and the organizers of the guest practice program, Steve, Siobhan, and Minoria, On behalf of Kannon Do, I offer deepest gratitude for your incredible hospitality, kindness, and practice of the Way. Everyone who came to visit...
by Sangha News editor | Aug 16, 2016 | News
Retreats and guest visits are canceled until August 22. The Unified Command continues to do back burning around the perimeter of Tassajara to help prevent the fire from spreading. The fire continues to move very slowly, and we are getting more optimistic news from the...
by Sangha News editor | Aug 19, 2016 | News
As a result of the fire, Tassajara guest season will not reopen this summer. “Fire has been and will continue to be a part of the life of Tassajara,” writes Susan O’Connell. “She is a great teacher of the practice of impermanence.” Dear...
by Sangha News editor | Aug 20, 2016 | News
Colleen Morton Busch, author of Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire about the 2008 fire that threatened Tassajara, has written an op-ed for the Monterey Herald about this summer’s fire threat. You can read it here.