Summary: Series Description Roshi Norman Fischer leads a Zazenkai weekend retreat. Episode Description: Here Roshi Norman continues his discussion of Dogen’s “Space,” along with its predecessor in Rujing’s lovely poem beginning “the whole body is a windbell hanging in space…,” and the story of the four answers of Bodhidharma’s four disciples. He examines many facets of expression, how all being is simultaneously expression – but the involuntary expression of a windbell rather than a saxophone or piano: therefore when we trust life and ourselves in their natural grain, we express Prajna Paramita willy-nilly, ding-dong. Bio: Roshi Zoketsu Norman Fischer 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. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Zazenkai Weekend – Dogen’s “Space” Series: All 3 Parts
