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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Norman Fischer's most recent Dharma talks

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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Norman Fischer's most recent Dharma talks

Norman is a Zen priest and abbot, a husband, father, and a poet, a teacher with wide-ranging interests and passions. During almost 30 years at San Francisco Zen Center, he served as director, tenzo, tanto, operations manager and other positions. Norman retired as abbot of Zen Center in 2000 to take his teaching out into the world. He continues his involvement with the Zen Center as a senior Dharma teacher. Norman believes in the possibility of engaged renunciation: living a fully committed religious life that does not exclude family, work, and a passionate interest in the world. In addition to his teaching with the Everyday Zen sangha in the Bay Area, Norman is guiding teacher to four other groups: the Bellingham (WA) Zen Practice Group, the Mountain Rain Zen Community (Vancouver, BC., Mar de Jade (Mexico), and The New York Zen Circle (New York City).

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  1. 39

    Norman Fischer: Gaia House Online Book Talk - When you Greet Me I Bow

    (Gaia House) In this dharma talk and discussion Norman Fischer presents his just-out book “When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen,” a collection of thirty years of his Dharma essays, with his own contemporary reflections. Covering topics as wide-ranging as what is a Zen teacher, racism and Buddhism, politics and religion, women in Zen, and the dialogic nature of Zen practice, the book is a broad look at the Buddhist movement in the West, its challenges and changes over the decades. Norman reads a bit, talks a bit, and opens for conversation and exploration.

  2. 38

    Norman Fischer: The World Could be Otherwise

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  3. 37

    Norman Fischer: Time

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Daylong from August 20th, 2016 with Norman Fischer

  4. 36

    Norman Fischer: The Self

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma Talk from Monday Night Meditation Class on July 11, 2016

  5. 35

    Norman Fischer: Compassion Slogans

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) About how to practice with slogans and a few specific slogans to practice with.

  6. 34

    Norman Fischer: Absolute and Relative Compassion

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Becoming intimate with your suffering, experiencing joy; developing compassion.

  7. 33

    Norman Fischer: Compassion and the Law

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk for lawyers about the possibilities of the profession and the necessity of developing compassion.

  8. 32

    Norman Fischer: Suffering and Gratitude

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Developing compassion requires us to learn to face pain rather than run from it. Gratitude practice helps us to see that we are connected to every thing- Good and bad. In the end we're grateful even for our pain, which turns out to be the gateway to a deeper love.

  9. 31

    Norman Fischer: Bodhisattva Vision

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Suffering is pervasive-there's no escape. But we all suffer together in exactly the same way, so we are close to one another. Bodhisattvas know this means love and compassion are the most real emotions in our lives.

  10. 30

    Norman Fischer: Working with Anger

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to practice mindfulness & use practice slogans specifically to work with anger...

  11. 29

    Norman Fischer: Compassion

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Salient notions and practices for self and others...

  12. 28

    Norman Fischer: The Iron Grindstone (or The Trouble with my Car)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  13. 27

    Norman Fischer: Everyday Mind is the Way

    (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)

  14. 26

    Norman Fischer: Offering & Allowing

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) When you commit your life to practice, it's beyond personal benefit. You Allow what happens, you Offer your Life...

  15. 25

    Norman Fischer: The 1906 Earth Quake

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to work with suffering & fear - How people in the Earthquake experienced it.

  16. 24

    Norman Fischer: Suffering

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) About the pervasiveness and usefulness of Suffering

  17. 23

    Norman Fischer: The Raw Spot

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Loss, pain and suffering leave us raw. But the rawness can bring us to a new birth. How to practice with difficult times, economic uncertainty.

  18. 22

    Norman Fischer: Big Problem

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The human problem and what to do about it.

  19. 21

    Norman Fischer: Facing Aggression

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Turning away is so natural to us but we must turn toward the aggression within us if we want to overcome it. Our practice is to do this, be patient with what we find, and learn to let it come and go rather than fix it. Then we will be able to act with kindness, and to change this world inside and out.

  20. 20

    Norman Fischer: Creativity Retreat - Success

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  21. 19

    Norman Fischer: Calling Yourself

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The practice of calling yourself and answering yourself as taught by an ancient Zen Master.

  22. 18

    Norman Fischer: Bodhicitta

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  23. 17

    Norman Fischer: Preferences and Desires

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  24. 16

    Norman Fischer: Sunday Closing Talk - Anger

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  25. 15

    Norman Fischer: Saturday Afternoon Program

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  26. 14

    Norman Fischer: Friday Afternoon Program

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  27. 13

    Norman Fischer: Abiding in Paradise

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  28. 12

    Norman Fischer: The Suffering of Women

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  29. 11

    Norman Fischer: Sila Paramitta

    (Unknown)

  30. 10

    Norman Fischer: The Meditative Perspective, Language and Listening

    (Unknown)

  31. 9

    Norman Fischer: Bajia's Zen Staff

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  32. 8

    Norman Fischer: Shoushan's Short Bamboo Staff

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  33. 7

    Norman Fischer: Not Mind, Not Buddha, Not Anything

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  34. 6

    Norman Fischer: Nature of Mind

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  35. 5

    Norman Fischer: Nature of Mind

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  36. 4

    Norman Fischer: Emptiness and the Four Seals of Buddhism

    (Unknown)

  37. 3

    Norman Fischer: Emptiness & the 4 Seals of Buddhism

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  38. 2

    Norman Fischer: Monday Night

    (Unknown)

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Norman is a Zen priest and abbot, a husband, father, and a poet, a teacher with wide-ranging interests and passions. During almost 30 years at San Francisco Zen Center, he served as director, tenzo, tanto, operations manager and other positions. Norman retired as abbot of Zen Center in 2000 to take his teaching out into the world. He continues his involvement with the Zen Center as a senior Dharma teacher. Norman believes in the possibility of engaged renunciation: living a fully committed religious life that does not exclude family, work, and a passionate interest in the world. In addition to his teaching with the Everyday Zen sangha in the Bay Area, Norman is guiding teacher to four other groups: the Bellingham (WA) Zen Practice Group, the Mountain Rain Zen Community (Vancouver, BC., Mar de Jade (Mexico), and The New York Zen Circle (New York City).

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