Summary: Episode Description: Opening this talk, Sensei Kaz invites us to consider how imagining the realization of world peace, although a seemingly impossible actuality, is quite pragmatic. Roshi Norman follows by reflecting on the Zen dialogues of dharma brothers Xuefeng and Yantou, and what they can teach us about the spiritual significance of warm friendship and finding one’s own path. 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. Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi, born and trained in Japan and active in the United States since 1977, has had solo exhibitions of his calligraphic paintings internationally. He has taught East Asian calligraphy at eight international conferences of calligraphy and lettering arts. Also a peace and environmental worker for decades, he is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He is world-renowned for his translations into English of Zen Master Dogen’s writings.
