Norm Fischer is an international expert on meditation, author, poet and priest. He makes presentations worldwide, including appearances on the Oprah Winfrey show.
He is a poet and Zen Buddhist priest. For many years he has taught at the San Francisco Zen Center, the oldest and largest of the new Buddhist organizations in the West, where he served as Co-abbot from 1995-2000. He is presently a Senior Dharma Teacher there as well as the founder and spiritual director of the Everyday Zen Foundation, an organization dedicated to adapting Zen Buddhist teachings to Western culture.
A person of unusually wide-ranging interests, his Zen teaching is known for its eclecticism, openness, warmth, and common sense, and for his willingness to let go of everything, including Zen. His chief interests in addition to poetry and traditional Zen and Buddhist teachings, are the adaptation of Zen meditation and understanding to the worlds of business, law, conflict resolution, inter religious dialog (he works especially with Jewish meditation and Catholic inter monastic dialog), care of the dying (he has for many years been a teacher with and is emeritus chair of the board of the Zen Hospice Project), the world of technology, and anything else he can think of.
Taking Our Places. The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up
Norman Fischer, acclaimed author, writer and Monk, talks about how meditation can be a powerful approach for getting relief from the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.