Eastern Philosophy and Spirituality Ashes and Impermanence: Tassajara Zen Mountain Center Reflects on the Loss of Its Historic Zendo September 28, 2026 rifanmuazin In the deep, rugged folds of California’s Ventana Wilderness, a fourteen-mile dirt road serves as the gateway to the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. For decades, this site—the first traditional Zen…
Eastern Philosophy and Spirituality The Burning of a Sanctuary: Reflections on the Loss and Legacy of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center September 21, 2026 rifanmuazin At twenty-eight years old, I first rattled over a stone-pocked, fourteen-mile dirt road into the Ventana Wilderness of California, arriving at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. At the time, it…