Norman Fischer: Signed "What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind"


Item Number: 216

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Value: $50

Online Close: Nov 27, 2016 11:59 PM EST

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The question-and-answer format in What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind makes this introduction to Zen especially easy to understand—and also to use as a reference, as you can easily look up just the question you had in mind.


The esteemed Zen teacher Norman Fischer and his old friend and teaching colleague Susan Moon (both of them in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind) give this collaborative effort a playful tone: Susan asks a question on our behalf, Norman answers it, and then Sue challenges him. By the time you get through their conversations, you'll have a good basic education in Zen--not only the history, theory, and practice but also the contemporary issues, such as gender inequality, sexual ethics, and the tension between Asian traditions and the modern American reality.


Norman Fischer is a Zen priest and abbot who lives in Muir Beach, California. Active in San Francisco Bay Area poetry circles since the 1970s, he has been publishing prose and poetry ever since. He is executor of the Philip Whalen literary estate.


 

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