MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Why Do We Bow?
Many people have this question the minute they walk into the zendo and are told to make full prostrations to the Buddha image on the altar. They come with an idea that Zen is beyond words…
Norman Fischer
Norman Fischer is a poet, translator, and Zen Buddhist priest. A senior dharma teacher at the San Francisco Zen Center, he is also the founder and spiritual director of the Everyday Zen Foundation, an organization dedicated to adapting Zen Buddhist teachings to Western culture.
Buddhism, Racism, and Jazz
True spiritual practice involves facing America's history of racial injustice rather than avoiding it.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Into Emptiness
A mother's death
Dharma Talks
When You Greet Me I Bow: Relationship, Emptiness, Activism
Poet, translator, and Zen Buddhist priest Norman Fischer shares lessons from his decades of practice: from relationships, to emptiness, to activism, to cultural encounters between East and West.
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