07-27-2015, 10:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-28-2016, 06:17 PM by Drunk Monk.)
I searched DOOM here to see when my last trip was (as the forum now stores most of my memories) and the earliest reference was 2005. Has it really been a decade? Wow. I used to go regularly. Stacy was approved as a student massage therapist, which means she trades massage for the stay and could get a guest in really cheaply (daily rate for guests is nearly $300 a night - she gets her guest in for $25 a night). But Tara has taken my slot for the last several years. I'm astounded that this has been a decade already.
Tassajara is part of S.F. Zen, the lineage in which Stacy and I took our vows for our wedding 20 years ago. I've done work studies there. And as an aficionado of natural hot springs, it is my well researched opinion the Tassajara has the most curative waters on the West Coast. The waters are magical, like melted silk, and they refract around the body with this intense blue aura like brilliant turquoise.
The last time I went to Tassajara, I stopped eating meat (except seafood). It was a weird transition. As you all know, I was a stunt meat eater, having eaten more types of meat in China than most Westerners could fathom. Despite my Buddhist vows, I never thought I could go veg. After my last trip a decade ago, I figured I'd just keep up the veg diet until I couldn't any longer. I often say I will take up meat eating again if I ever go back to China, but that's been over a decade now too.
Tassajara was very restorative. I did the morning zazen, which was easier for me as I'm now trained to wake up for the HWY17 commute. But other than that, I bathed a lot, ate a lot and slept a lot. I read two new scholarly works on martial arts (which, like tQ's romance novels, I will probably not review here, unless I get really bored, which is unlikely). Stacy raised an eyebrow about me reading stuff 'for work' on my vacation, but both books were extraordinary. Reading at a Zen monastery is the way.
I also fed a lot of the local insects.
I love Tassajara. It gives me such hope to remember such sanctuaries still exist in the world. Hopefully, it won't be another decade until I return there.
Tassajara is part of S.F. Zen, the lineage in which Stacy and I took our vows for our wedding 20 years ago. I've done work studies there. And as an aficionado of natural hot springs, it is my well researched opinion the Tassajara has the most curative waters on the West Coast. The waters are magical, like melted silk, and they refract around the body with this intense blue aura like brilliant turquoise.
The last time I went to Tassajara, I stopped eating meat (except seafood). It was a weird transition. As you all know, I was a stunt meat eater, having eaten more types of meat in China than most Westerners could fathom. Despite my Buddhist vows, I never thought I could go veg. After my last trip a decade ago, I figured I'd just keep up the veg diet until I couldn't any longer. I often say I will take up meat eating again if I ever go back to China, but that's been over a decade now too.
Tassajara was very restorative. I did the morning zazen, which was easier for me as I'm now trained to wake up for the HWY17 commute. But other than that, I bathed a lot, ate a lot and slept a lot. I read two new scholarly works on martial arts (which, like tQ's romance novels, I will probably not review here, unless I get really bored, which is unlikely). Stacy raised an eyebrow about me reading stuff 'for work' on my vacation, but both books were extraordinary. Reading at a Zen monastery is the way.
I also fed a lot of the local insects.
I love Tassajara. It gives me such hope to remember such sanctuaries still exist in the world. Hopefully, it won't be another decade until I return there.
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