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The Battle For Tassajara Hot Springs
The Zen Center at Tassajara Hot Springs has been preparing for the arrival of the Basin Fire for almost two weeks. Fire crews have been in and out over the course of the last two weeks but now they are...
View ArticleQuestion Why Tassajara Received No Help
The Tassajara Zen Center blog offers some details about the battle to save the compound yesterday. In part; “….the Tassajara grounds are an island of green in a sea of black. A testament to the...
View ArticleTassajara's "Fire Monks" Story Remains Untold
SF Gate’s cartoonist Tom Meyer makes the point that it was the resident monks of the Tassajara Zen Center that fended off flames, not firefighters who watched from a safe distance. Meyers cartoon shows...
View ArticleTassajara: Victims of USFS Bureaucratic Incompetence
Details of the heroic fight to save the Tassajara Zen Center are filtering out. Center Director David Zimmerman, one of the five “fire monks” describes the events that led to the final evacuation of...
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Tale of Two Learning Centers, U.C. Berkeley & San Francisco Zen Center
Both maintain learning retreats in the same forest, both share a similar mission of teaching. Both respect the land they occupy. Both strive to do right by nature and society. The University of...
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Fire Monks, A Story of Fire, Bravery and Abandonment
When fire swept down canyon and into the grounds of their monastery a group of five Buddhist Monks were waiting. None of them had direct fire ground experience but what they possessed was a lifetime of...
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