Norman will read from his new books Experience: On Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion, and Magnolias All At Once.
More info: Copperfield's Books
Zoketsu Norman Fischer and Reigetsu Susan Moon
A reading of Norman Fischer's three new books: Magnolias All At Once, Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion, and What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind, coauthored with Susan Moon.
Free event / $10 suggested donation
(No one turned away for lack of funds.)
For more information, please see: What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind (Book Reading with Norman Fischer) at the SFZC website.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer and Reigetsu Susan Moon
Based on Norman’s new collection of essays, Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion, this workshop will focus on questions like: What is the core of spiritual practice? What is language, and how does it help or hinder our practice? What is religious experience, or any experience after all?
Norman will share his insights from the book and offer guided meditations and writing exercises to help us bring these questions home. There will be plenty of time for dialogue. Probably also some discussion of two more of his recent books will enter into the spirit of the day: Magnolias All At Once (poetry) and What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind.
Fees: $80; $72 current SFZC members; $64 limited income.
Includes lunch and afternoon tea.
Some partial scholarships available.
To Register: Please visit Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion (Workshop with Norman Fischer) at the SFZC website.
$70 for members of a Twin Cities Zen Center; $90 for nonmembers
Vegetarian lunch included.
Please register early; space is limited.
Register for workshop.
Norman will be spend the day with participants exploring how the ineffable silence of Zen can be evoked by the scratch of a pen. He will be drawing on the distilled insights of forty years of writing practice combined with Zen meditation drawing on material from his new book Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion.
Both Buddhist priest and participant in avant-garde poetry's Language movement, Norman will explore with participants the fertile affinities and creative contradictions between Zen and writing.
He will explore a variety of themes which include: time, the Heart Sutra, God in the Hebrew psalms, the supreme "uselessness" of art making, "late work" as a category of poetic appreciation, and the subtle and dubious notion of "religious experience."
Through lectures, discussion, and exercises, participants may discover how language is not a description of experience, but rather an experience itself: shifting, indefinite, and essential.
More info: Minnesota Zen Meditation Center
A reading to celebrate Norman’s new books Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion and Magnolias All At Once.
For more information, please see the event page at Village Books Fairhaven.
Norman Fischer, poet and essayist, reading from and discussing:
Preceded by open mic for original poetry and prose.
Note: Enter from the rear parking lot off Alvarado Street.
The Writers Read series from Excuse Me, I'm Writing features guest authors, discussions and book signings, preceded by open mic for original poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.
More info: Writers Read Presents
Norman will read from Experience: On Thinking, Writing, Language,and Religion and Magnolias All At Once.
Norman visits the University of Alabama to celebrate the publication of Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion.
If you happen to be in Tuscaloosa, or know friends who are, email Hank Lazer for details.
The University of Alabama is offering a nice discount on this important new book through the end of January. Visit the EXPERIENCE page at their website or call 800-621-2736, and use the offer code MCP16.
For Norman's teaching schedule and related events, please see: Everyday Zen Schedule
Zoketsu Norman Fischer returns to InsightLA with this special talk based on his latest work: Experience: on Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion (University of Alabama Press).
Norman will share teachings from this new collection which ranges diverse, fascinating topics such as time, the Heart Sutra, God in the Hebrew psalms, the supreme "uselessness" of art making, "late work" as a category of poetic appreciation, and the subtle and dubious notion of "religious experience." From the theoretical to the revealingly personal, Fischer's essays, interviews, and notes point toward a dramatic expansion of the sense of religious feeling in writing.
Copies will be available for purchase.
To register and for more information, please see: InsightLA Calendar
For Norman's teaching schedule and related events, please see: Everyday Zen Schedule
Norman's new book, Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion, becomes available today, in bookstores and online.
For Norman's teaching schedule and related events, please see: Everyday Zen Schedule
