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Mountains and waters means not mechanistic, vulnerable, physical mountains and waters, but the starkness and the presence of the actual physical world, not as an object, but as luminous, boundless appearance that stands at the joining point of subject and object of perception and religious feeling. In other words, Dogen is not talking about the world out there that is just laying there as if it were inert. He is talking about a living thing that comes into existence when we apprehend it. He is talking about the point where our perception of the world and our inner life meet. At that point, at that depth, it is religious. It’s a deeper feeling than just, “I’m over here, and the world is over there.” This is more like a meeting, a real encounter. Mountains and rivers for Dogen stands for the is-ness of being – the magic, the impossibility of being, which appears and disappears at the same moment. from Norman's talk on Dogen's Mountains and Waters Sutra, September 7, 2011 |
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| Feb 3 - 5 - Everyday Zen Women's Retreat February 3rd-5th St. Dorothy's Rest in Sonoma County Location: St. Dorothy's Rest |
| Feb 5 - 7 - University of North Carolina at Asheville the 2nd in a series of college visits for Zoketsu Norman Fischer University of North Carolina at Asheville Location: University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| Feb 1 - 29 - February 2012 Dharma Seminar Wednesday nights Feb 1,8,15,22 & 29 Topics:Feb 1,8, articles by Buddhist scholar Rita Gross Feb 15,22,29, Tao Te Ching Location: Community Congregational Church in Tiburon |
| Feb 11 Coming Down to Earth A Day of Zen Practice for Women Saturday,February 11, 10am-4:30pm at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center with Chris Fortin & Lane Olson Location: Green Gulch Farm |
| Feb 13 Poetry Reading with Zoketsu Norman Fischer Monday, February 13, 7pm Moe's Books in Berkeley, CA Norman will read from his new book length poem, Conflict Location: Moe's Books |
| Feb 19 Everyday Zen Dialogues INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS AS PRACTICE PLACE SUPREME Sunday, February 19, 10am-4:30pm at Lauren Coaching Center in San Francisco with Chris Fortin & James Flaherty Location: Lauren Coaching Center |
| Feb 25 Company Time Retreat a Retreat For People Working in the Business World Saturday, February 25th, 10am-5pm at Green Gulch Farm with Norman Fischer & Marc Lesser Location: Green Gulch Farm |
| Feb 26 February 2012 All Day Sitting Sunday, February 26th 9am-6pm at the Marin Headlands led by Norman Fischer Location: Headlands Institute |
| Feb 27 Poetry Reading with Zoketsu Norman Fischer February 27, Monday, 7pm at Bird and Beckett Books in San Francisco Norman will read from his new book length poem, Conflict Location: Bird and Beckett Books in San Francisco, Ca |
| Mar 2 - 4 - Red Cedar Zen Community Three Day Sesshin, Friday, March 2nd-Sunday, March 4 with Zoketsu Norman Fischer & Tim Burnett Location: Red Cedar Dharma Hall |
| Historical Consciousness of Buddhist History - Rita GrossNorman gives the first talk on Rita M. Gross' essay on "Buddhist History for Buddhist Practitioners" as published in... Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Feb 1, 2012  |
| Impermanence - All Day Sitting January 29, 2012Norman gives a talk on Impermanence at the All Day Sitting for January 2012 at the Headlands Institute. Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Jan 29, 2012 |
| Intentions - Guided Meditation SCIPI January 29, 2012Norman gives a guided meditation on Intentions to the SCIPI conflict resolution group. Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Jan 29, 2012 |
| Mahaparinirvana Sutta 4Norman gives the fourth and final talk on the Mahaparinirvana Sutta on Buddha's final days as found in The Long Discourses... Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Jan 25, 2012 |
| Mahaparinirvana Sutta 3Jay Simoneaux gives the third talk on the Mahaparinirvana Sutta on Buddhas last days as found in The Long Discourses of the... Jay Simoneaux | Jan 18, 2012 |
| Mahaparinirvana Sutta 2Norman gives the second talk on the Mahaparinirvana Sutta on Buddha's final days as found in The Long Discourses of the... Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Jan 11, 2012 |
| Mahaparinirvana Sutta 1Norman gives the first talk on the Mahaparinirvana Sutta as found in The Long Discourses of the Buddha - Translation of the... Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Jan 4, 2012 |
| Being Nobody Going Nowhere - 7 Four Noble TruthsNorman gives the seventh and final talk on Ayya Khema's book "Being Nobody Going Nowhere" - Meditations on the Buddhist... Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Dec 21, 2011 |
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