Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara Review

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Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara Review"Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wild­fire at the Gates of Tas­sa­jara " by Colleen Mor­ton Busch is the non-fiction account of the 2008 Cal­i­for­nia fire which almost destroyed the Tas­sa­jara Zen Moun­tain Cen­ter. The story is told from the per­spec­tive of those who stayed behind to pro­tect Tassajara.
A mas­sive wild­fire has sur­rounded Tas­sa­jara Moun­tain Cen­ter. So mas­sive that even the fire crews have decided that it would be wiser not to fight it.
Five monks stayed behind to try and save Tas­sa­jara. They risked life and limb to stand in the way of the immense wild­fire which sur­rounded them and became and inter­na­tional sensation.
"Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wild­fire at the Gates of Tas­sa­jara " by Colleen Mor­ton is not only a grip­ping nar­ra­tive of the 2008 wild­fire events, but also how Zen allows peo­ple to meet such colos­sal cri­sis with a focused mind.
The Tas­sa­jara Zen Moun­tain Cen­ter, near Big Sur in Cal­i­for­nia, is well known in the Zen com­mu­nity. The cen­ter is not only famous for med­i­ta­tion and train­ing, but also for their bread bak­ing and veg­e­tar­ian cookbooks.
The 2008 fire, started by light­ning, con­sumed more than 240,000 acres. While the small group of defend­ers in Tas­sa­jara watched for three nerve-wracking weeks while the fire con­sumed every­thing in its path towards them. Watch­ing the weather care­fully before the order to evac­u­ate came, five senior mem­bers of Tas­sa­jara decided to stay behind.
The book is not only the story of the fire, but also the his­tory of Tas­sa­jara, intro­duc­tion to Bud­dhism, and track­ing of the destruc­tion the fire cause on its path.
I used to be a vol­un­teer fire fighter for about four years. Some of the things I learned are men­tioned in the book -- the pres­ence of mind to meet emer­gen­cies, not pan­ick­ing and con­cen­trat­ing on one job at a time. How­ever, more impor­tant than all of those are the knowl­edge of when to fight the fire and when to sim­ply try and con­tain it.
While I don't con­sider myself a Bud­dhist, I cer­tainly appre­ci­ate the ben­e­fits of med­i­ta­tion to the human mind. if you have a touch time falling asleep you might want to give med­i­ta­tion a try before open­ing up your med­i­cine cab­i­net. It might be dif­fi­cult, clear­ing your mind is an enor­mous task, but the ben­e­fits that come with it are more than worth the effort.
Busch's book ties in nicely the dis­ci­plines of Zen and fire­fight­ing. While both seem to be extreme ends of the spec­trum, they have much more in com­mon then one would think.
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