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Norman Fischer
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Norman Fischer

Norman Fischer is one of the best-known Zen teachers in the country, both through his extensive teaching and traveling, and through his writing. In addition to his own retreats and events, Fischer participates frequently at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, the largest of all Western Buddhist establishments, where he gives frequent talks and leads retreats on creativity and interfaith issues, as well as on mediation and conflict resolution. Fischer has been publishing in Buddhist magazines for many years, and is on the advisory board of BuddhaDharma magazine. His essays have been anthologized in many Buddhist and other spiritual books... Read full bio

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Books calendar for the week of Jan. 29
North County Times, January 29, 2012
...7 p.m. Thursday. D.G. Wills Books 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla 858-456-1800 | dgwillsbooks.com -- Norman Fischer will read from and sign "Conflict" at 7 p.m. Thursday. -- Gary Geddes will discuss and sign "Drink the Bitter Root" at 7 p.m. Feb. 14. MiraCosta...
Documentary celebrates Fishbone
San Francisco Examiner, January 8, 2012
...p.m., Books Inc., 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto] Poetry reading: Canessa Park Reading Series welcomes Norman Fischer (reading from his new book-length poem, “Conflict”), Eric Selland and Marjorie Stein. [7:30 p.m., Canessa Park Gallery, 708...
October 2011 book club meetings at Tucson bookstores
Examiner.com, September 28, 2011
...is Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls by Norman Fischer...
Poet Puts Life, Nature, and Poetry Writing Under a Magnifying Glass
PRWeb, June 10, 2011
...and tree lichen. Things that are true, that last, that pass away: ‘secrets too good to shout’.” — Norman Fischer Winter Fruit allows readers to get a glimpse of how Wilson places life experience, nature, and the writing of poetry under a...
‘Our mission — to keep our young people Jewish’
Intermountain Jewish News, April 7, 2011
...did it take you to write this book? Engel: 10 years. Hochstadt: We really did research well. Engel: Norman Fischer wrote the teachers guide. He was a consultant. Q. When did you write? Engel: We wrote every day. Whenever we had time. Hochstadt: Barbara...
INCO / MPRE / HENS / IBLE On Natural Language:4...
Silliman's Blog, October 6, 2011
...folio Hannah Weiner’sThe Book of Revelations Radical Poetics& Secular Jewish Culture Eliot’s anti-Semitism New poems by Norman Fischer Brian Unger on Norman Fischer Michel Houellebecq is missing Or maybe just forgetful Talking with Houellebecq...
Book on brain featured in current Understanding in Conflict newsletter
Brains On Purpose™, August 6, 2011
...Now online: the August edition of the newsletter published by the organization offering the mediation training I most highly recommend. This month the newsletter of the Center for Understanding in Conflict includes these articles:The Differences Between...
Whisk in the Mouth
The Rumpus.net, July 23, 2011
...no-duh one-liner is beautiful and stupid. It reminds me of the rebelliously reverent sensibility of Zen poets like Norman Fischer, whose On Whether Or Not To Believe In Your Mind seems like a precursor to Marinovich’s work, as well as of more recent...
Poet Puts Life, Nature, and Poetry Writing Under a Magnifying Glass
American Banking News, June 10, 2011
...and tree lichen. Things that are true, that last, that pass away: ‘secrets too good to shout’.” — Norman Fischer Winter Fruit allows readers to get a glimpse of how Wilson places life experience, nature, and the writing of poetry under a...