Reviews

New York Journal of Books: Review: The World Could Be Otherwise


Fischer is best at explaining these key concepts without making them too abstract, a skill gained perhaps through all of his years of teaching. His work with the imagination is stellar….

Fischer doesn’t end in thought but finds living examples in our shared lives.
— Larry Smith , New York Journal of Books

Larry Smith, "Review: The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path," New York Journal of Books, April 2019.

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The Zen Gateway: Review: The World Could Be Otherwise


Fischer has developed a wide range of ways to re-imagine everyday situations, and to challenge the habitual feeling tones that they evoke.…

The Buddha’s message has moved through a number of different cultures in its long history. Will it put down lasting roots in our own? If it does, then it will have to adapt to this culture, keeping its spirit but re-imagining itself in new cultural forms. Who better for this task than a poet?
— The Zen Gateway


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Books on Zen