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

Francisco Cinencio gives the second "Evening Talk" at the Mar De Jade 2010 Sesshin.

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.

Norman gives the fourth and final talk to the Insight Yoga Institute reading his new poems.

First in a Study of the Five Skandas - Form, Feeling, Perception, Volition, Consciousness -using Chogyam Trungpa's book "Glimpses of Abhidharma"

Second in a Study of the Five Skandas - Form, Feeling, Perception, Volition, Consciousness -using Chogyam Trungpa's book "Glimpses of Abhidharma"

Third in a Study of the Five Skandas - Form, Feeling, Perception, Volition, Consciousness -using Chogyam Trungpa's book "Glimpses of Abhidharma"

Norman gives the second talk of the 2012 Tassajara Zen Mind Training Workshop on Absolute and Relative Compassion, the first slogans for absolute compassion training. Norman gives a guided meditation at the end of the talk.

Zoketsu Norman Fischer talks about a Zen approach to dealing with the suffering brought about by afflicted emotions. From sesshin given at Mar de Jade.

(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.

It's interesting to consider the Buddha's political ideals, his recommendations for what we might call the good society. And it's striking that he had no recommendations. There is no term in Buddhism, as far as I know, that corresponds to out Western concept of "justice."

First of Series of talks on the Pali Canon based on the book "In the Buddha's Words" by Bhikkhu Bodhi

Second of Series of talks on the Pali Canon based on the book "In the Buddha's Words" by Bhikkhu Bodhi

Third of Series of talks on the Pali Canon based on the book "In the Buddha's Words" by Bhikkhu Bodhi

Fourth of Series of talks on the Pali Canon based on the book "In the Buddha's Words" by Bhikkhu Bodhi

Fifth of Series of talks on the Pali Canon based on the book "In the Buddha's Words" by Bhikkhu Bodhi

Sixth of Series of talks on the Pali Canon based on the book "In the Buddha's Words" by Bhikkhu Bodhi

Rita Gross’s reflections on the importance of a feminist approach to religious study and practice.

A very important book. Translation and discussion of the poems of the Therigata, written by the first women to be ordained as Buddhist monastics during the time of the Buddha.

Dalai lama’s commentary to Santideva’s chapter on patience (for Santideva’s Mahayana text Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, see Topic 5, Compassion, in the Study Guide).

A wonderful anthology compiled by an American scholar monk living in Asia.

Sharon has made the cultivation of lovingkindness the heart of her practice.

The better of the two currently available translations of all four volumes of Shobogenzo.

Very tough going. But some of Norman’s talks are based on a short technical section that is included. Probably a text for the philosophically minded only! The talks are useful even without the text.

A collection of interviews and profiles of some of the most significant first-generation American women teachers.

A clear and useful commentary to the Mindfulness Sutta.