We are very excited to host Jewish Zen Master Norman Fischer!  He is the founder of Everyday Zen Foundation and is one of the most highly respected Zen teachers in America.  He is also the spiritual leader of MAKOR OR: A Center for Jewish Meditation in San Francisco, which incorporates sitting and walking meditation and Jewish chant.

We will begin with our session together with a guided meditation.  Norman is the author of several books on Zen and books of poetry, including Opening to You:  Zen-Inspired Translation of Psalms.  He will read from Psalms and discuss his newest book, The World Could be Otherwise:  Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path.   We will also have time for Q&A.

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More about Norman Fischer:

Norman Fischer is a poet and Zen Buddhist priest. For many years he has taught at the San Francisco Zen Center, the oldest and largest of the new Buddhist organizations in the West, where he served as Co-abbot from 1995-2000. He is presently a Senior Dharma Teacher there as well as the founder and spiritual director of the Everyday Zen Foundation, an organization dedicated to adapting Zen Buddhist teachings to Western culture.

In addition to his regular work at Zen Center, and with Everyday Zen, he has taught extensively, with his old friend the late Rabbi Alan Lew, on the relationship between Buddhist and Jewish practice. His chief interests in addition to poetry and traditional Zen and Buddhist teachings, are the adaptation of Zen meditation and understanding to the worlds of business, law, conflict resolution, interreligious dialogue (he works especially with Jewish meditation and Catholic intermonastic dialog), care of the dying (he has for many years been a teacher with and is emeritus chair of the board of the Zen Hospice Project), the world of technology, and anything else he can think of.

Please visit his website (https://www.normanfischer.org/) for links to his writings as well as audio and digital materials.