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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.
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Finding freedom through thoughts and words
Revealing a World of Bliss
How the Buddha was able to transmit the heart of his teaching simply by twirling a flower
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Saved From Freezing
Zen priest and poet Norman Fischer explores the spirituality of art.
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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…
Buddhism, Racism, And Jazz
The other day I picked up a world religions textbook my twin sons were using for their freshman high school history course. The chapter on Buddhism had a subdivision entitled “Western Buddhism,” and here you could…
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