Norman will read and discuss his poetry as part of the Zen Center North Shore’s Winter Class Series: The Poetry of Zen.
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Winter Class Series: The Poetry of Zen with Norman Fischer
The human imagination is one of planet earth’s greatest untapped natural resources. Join Zen priests and writers Norman Fischer and Ruth Ozeki for a weekend of cultivating the imagination.
For more information, please visit: Event page at Garrison Institute
Join us for a day of teachings and practice with Norman and Kathy Fischer to highlight the publication of Norman's new book, The World Could be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path. Books will be available for sale at the event and Norman will be offering a book signing.
This is a donation-based offering. Suggested donation is $75. No one turned away for lack of funds.
For more information, please visit: Event page at Insight LA
Norman will lead a workshop addressing themes from his new book The World Could be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path..
For more information, please visit: Calendar at Austin Zen Center
The title of this workshop comes from Norman’s new book, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path, which argues for an imaginative approach to spiritual practice for our difficult times. The book and workshop are built around the idea of the bodhisattva path, consisting of six traditional practices, giving, ethical conduct, patient forbearance, joyful effort, meditation, and imaginative wisdom.
We’ll spend the afternoon practicing silent meditation and talking about these six great practices, and how to make them our own.
To register and for more information, please visit: Event page at SF Zen Center: GGF
The title of this workshop comes from Norman’s new book, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path, which argues for an imaginative approach to spiritual practice for our difficult times. The book and workshop are built around the idea of the bodhisattva path, consisting of six traditional practices, giving, ethical conduct, patient forbearance, joyful effort, meditation, and imaginative wisdom.
We’ll spend the afternoon practicing silent meditation and talking about these six great practices, and how to make them our own.
To register and for more information, please visit: Event page at SF Zen Center
Norman will lead a workshop addressing themes from his new book The World Could be Otherwise.
For more information, please visit: Events Calendar at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center
Using Norman's translation of psalms, Opening to You: Zen-inspired Translations of the Psalms, we'll contemplate these great ancient poems as a template for spiritual practice.
Most of the day will be spent in silent sitting and walking meditation, with some guided meditation, with informal talks/discussions to open out the psalms as they touch the heart. No experience in meditation or Jewish liturgical practice necessary.
Questions and registration: Call Kathy Balint at (541) 488-2909 or email office@emekshalom.org.
$45 per person (includes delicious vegetarian lunch)
For more information, please see the event listing at Temple Emek Shalom.
Open to the public. $20 suggested dana, cash/check at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds. Free to UA students with ID.
Preregistration required: tucsonupayasangha@gmail.com
Zoketsu Norman Fischer and Reigetsu Susan Moon
Based on Norman’s new collection of essays, Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion, this workshop will focus on questions like: What is the core of spiritual practice? What is language, and how does it help or hinder our practice? What is religious experience, or any experience after all?
Norman will share his insights from the book and offer guided meditations and writing exercises to help us bring these questions home. There will be plenty of time for dialogue. Probably also some discussion of two more of his recent books will enter into the spirit of the day: Magnolias All At Once (poetry) and What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind.
Fees: $80; $72 current SFZC members; $64 limited income.
Includes lunch and afternoon tea.
Some partial scholarships available.
To Register: Please visit Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion (Workshop with Norman Fischer) at the SFZC website.
$70 for members of a Twin Cities Zen Center; $90 for nonmembers
Vegetarian lunch included.
Please register early; space is limited.
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Norman will be spend the day with participants exploring how the ineffable silence of Zen can be evoked by the scratch of a pen. He will be drawing on the distilled insights of forty years of writing practice combined with Zen meditation drawing on material from his new book Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion.
Both Buddhist priest and participant in avant-garde poetry's Language movement, Norman will explore with participants the fertile affinities and creative contradictions between Zen and writing.
He will explore a variety of themes which include: time, the Heart Sutra, God in the Hebrew psalms, the supreme "uselessness" of art making, "late work" as a category of poetic appreciation, and the subtle and dubious notion of "religious experience."
Through lectures, discussion, and exercises, participants may discover how language is not a description of experience, but rather an experience itself: shifting, indefinite, and essential.
More info: Minnesota Zen Meditation Center
Based on Norman's book Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong, the theme of this afternoon workshop is training the heart to reduce self-centeredness (which is so painful!) and increase compassion.We will practice guided meditations, contemplate teachings, and engage in discussion and imaginative exercises designed to bring the material home to the particularity of our lives today.
Presented by Point Reyes Books and Black Mountain Circle.
All are welcome (seating is limited).
Donations requested. Pre-registration required.
To register and for more information: An Afternoon of Training in Compassion at Point Reyes Books
For more information, please contact: Jaune Evans
For Norman's teaching schedule and related events, please see: Everyday Zen Schedule
Norman visits the University of Alabama to celebrate the publication of Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion.
If you happen to be in Tuscaloosa, or know friends who are, email Hank Lazer for details.
The University of Alabama is offering a nice discount on this important new book through the end of January. Visit the EXPERIENCE page at their website or call 800-621-2736, and use the offer code MCP16.
For Norman's teaching schedule and related events, please see: Everyday Zen Schedule
Zoketsu Norman Fischer returns to InsightLA with this special talk based on his latest work: Experience: on Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion (University of Alabama Press).
Norman will share teachings from this new collection which ranges diverse, fascinating topics such as time, the Heart Sutra, God in the Hebrew psalms, the supreme "uselessness" of art making, "late work" as a category of poetic appreciation, and the subtle and dubious notion of "religious experience." From the theoretical to the revealingly personal, Fischer's essays, interviews, and notes point toward a dramatic expansion of the sense of religious feeling in writing.
Copies will be available for purchase.
To register and for more information, please see: InsightLA Calendar
For Norman's teaching schedule and related events, please see: Everyday Zen Schedule
