Norman gives the first talk of the Koan workshop at Tassajara on an Introduction to Koans.

Norman talks on the Koan "The Invitation of the Patriarch to Eastern India" Case 3 of the Book of Serenity - Thomas Cleary edition. This is the second of four talks given at the Loon Lake Sesshin 2009.

Charles Cagnon leads the class in a talk on "The Invitation Of The Patriarch To Eastern India" - Case 3 of the Book of Serenity.

Norman gives the second talk on Zen's Women Ancestors on Iron Grindstone Liu's Feast. This series is based on Record of the Hidden Lamp: One Hundred Koans of Awakened Women, edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon (forthcoming from Wisdom Publications, 2013

This talk is based on the koan "Baizhang's Fox" as published in The Gateless Barrier #14 and the Book of Serenity #8. This Koan deals with Karma and the cause and affect of our actions.

Norman gives the seventh talk at the Koan Workshop at Tassajara on a brief History of Koans followed by an exercise using capping phrases.

Norman talks on a koan on "Miracles" case 61 of Dogen's Mana Shobogenzo found in "The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans" translated by Loori and Tanahashi.

Koan on Baizhang's Fox as published in The Gateless Barrier #14 and the Book of Serenity #8. This Koan deals with Karma and the cause and affect of our actions.

Koan on Bodhidharma's Don't Know published in The Blue Cliff Record case #1 and the Book of Serenity case #2. This Koan speaks of the first zen teacher's arrival in China and the unknowable nature of existence.

Norman speaks on the Koan Mi Hu's "Enlightenment or Not" Case 62 in the "Book of Serenity" Thomas Cleary edition.

This is an introduction to Koan Study. Zoketsu discusses the history of Koans and their relationship to Zen practice in the Rinzai and Soto schools of Zen. He recommends Dogen’s Genjo Koan as a guide in making this very life our central koan.

Koans from the upcoming collection, compiled and edited by Sue Moon and Florence Caplow, of Zen Koans about women.

Short comments on contemporary and ancient Zen stories

Norman gives the second talk in the Koans 2011 series on Avoid Picking and Choosing - Case 2 Blue Cliff Record "The Ultimate Path is Without Difficulty". Also found In Mana Shobogenzo Case 11.

500 lives reborn as a fox for one misstep! Zoketsu speaks on karma and practice.

Norman speaks on Bodhidharma's Emptiness - Case 2 of the Book of Serenity Thomas Cleary edition. We are left with the questions of Boundlessness (or Emptiness) and Don't Know.

(plática impartida el 24 de agosto del 2005, Everyday Zen Dharma Seminar. A ser publicado en Tricycle Magazine.)

When Buddha was on Vulture Peak he twirled a flower before the assembly. Everyone was silent. Only Maha-kashapa smiled. Buddha said: `I have the eye treasury of the true teaching, the heart of Nirvana, the true form of non-form, and the ineffable gate of Dharma. It is a special transmission outside the teaching. I now entrust it to Maha-kashapa.' This story is not historically true but it isn't made up either. Over the years I've come to appreciate that it expresses something spiritually accurate about the Zen lineage.

Translation (with traditional commentary) of 100 koans.

New translation of Book of Serenity, with good comments by a contemporary American Zen teacher.

Translation (with traditional commentary) of 100 koans.

Zen teacher Robert Aitken’s thorough-going translation of and commentary on the 48 koans of the Mumonkan.

Another collection of scholarly essays about the origins and uses of the koan literature in Zen history.