Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

And I'd like to try that out for a little while and find my stable presence in a more reliable way before I jumped into the rest of my life.

So I had heard about Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, which is just down the road from where I live now, south of San Francisco in the mountains, and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center is connected through San Francisco Zen Center, lineage of Suzuki Roshi.

And I think I think we actually read Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, Suzuki Hiroshi's book, in the Zen class with Haraj.

Oh, how could you not? It's the classic, yeah.

This is a paperback edition, again, a very slender volume.

Jane Hirshfield is still alive, as last I checked, and she has practiced in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.

And a lot of practice with Zogetsu Norman Fisher, my teacher's teacher.

And I got to meet Jane at the Elliott Bay Book Company after she read from her volume of prose, Ten Windows, How Great Poems Transform the World.

So I came to Zen center back in 2014.

First I went to Tassajara Zen monastery there and five years, I practiced there for five years and then I came here in 2020 and I've been here since.

I love this group,

Young Urban Zen.

So Suzuki Roshi tells this story, as many Zen teachers do.

Suzuki Roshi are f- the founder of, of this San Francisco Zen Center and Green Gulch Farm, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.

He talks about this, this story, and he says, "I was asked by a student to speak about the relationship of one moment to the next moment.

There are two ways to answer this question.