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Upcoming Events
05/18/2008 - 05/21/2008
Wildflowers and Birds of Tassajara
05/18/2008 - 05/23/2008
Dharma Retreat for Lawyers: What is it to be trustworthy, a fiduciary?
05/23/2008 - 05/26/2008
Life-Stream of Yoga Holiday Weekend
05/26/2008 - 05/30/2008
Patterns Which Shape Our Lives
05/26/2008 - 05/29/2008
The Mind and Body of Practice in Zen and Yoga
05/30/2008 - 06/02/2008
Words under the Words
06/02/2008 - 06/05/2008
Food, Memory, and Words
06/02/2008 - 06/05/2008
Practicing with Lust, Rage, and Foggy Mind: Two Ancient Paths
06/05/2008 - 06/08/2008
Mountains, Rivers and the Great Earth: Grounding Our Practice in Love for the World
06/05/2008 - 06/08/2008
Wild Mind, Zen Mind

Welcome to Tassajara
39171 Tassajara Road
Carmel Valley, CA 93924
Phone: (415) 865.1899
Map | Directions

This welcome statement appears in this year's Tassajara brochure.

Dear Tassajara Guests:
On this sunlit autumn day, Tassajara pathways are paved with the gold of maple leaves. The quiet murmur of the creek reminds us that we have had little rain. Blue jay chatter cuts through the sound of the light breezes that stir leaves and flex the branches of sycamores. The whirr of an electric saw blade ripping a board and the banging of a hammer on a nail speak of Cabin 1 renovation nearing completion. During monastic work period, a big rock is slowly yielding to mattock, shovel, and digging bar. Moving it will allow us to grade a sloped access for wheelchairs to roll down to the courtyard.

Mostly, this fall is a quiet time at Tassajara. Hours every day are devoted to silent sitting, to study, to deeply settle into meditative stillness. Yet already some of our thoughts turn to springtime preparations for you who will come as guests, summer retreatants and student workers. You bring a balance of energy and activity into a seasonal rhythm of life that opens and closes like breathing in and breathing out. Together we create a place




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