{"id":1471,"date":"2008-07-11T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/07\/fire-raging-in-tassajara\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:13:02","slug":"fire-raging-in-tassajara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/07\/fire-raging-in-tassajara.html","title":{"rendered":"Fire raging in Tassajara"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/SHc5srxsf4I\/AAAAAAAABFQ\/iqWMX6z72Nk\/s1600-h\/tassajara%27shan.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/SHc5srxsf4I\/AAAAAAAABFQ\/iqWMX6z72Nk\/s400\/tassajara%27shan.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>Apparently five clergy, including Abbot Steve Stucky remain at Tassajara following a formal evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>The fire continues to rage and the situation at this writing remains unclear\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Tassajara Zen Mountain Center was established as a Zen training temple in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition by the late Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and his senior students, particularly Richard Baker (now roshi)  in 1966. It remains one of the signal centers for Zen practice in the West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfzc.org\/tassajara\/display.asp?catid=4&amp;pageid=1237\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">For more details as they become available.<\/a><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shadow upon Tassajara\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/flPg0zGwEDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Please keep the center, Abbot Stucky and the Zen community in your prayers and thoughts\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-5752662550886615099?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently five clergy, including Abbot Steve Stucky remain at Tassajara following a formal evacuation. 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