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Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide

By Norman Fischer (foreword by)

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9781614292845 | Wisdom Pubns, December 6, 2016, cover price $16.95

Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion

By Norman Fischer

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9780817358280, titled "Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language & Religion" | Univ of Alabama Pr, December 20, 2015, cover price $39.95

Magnolias All at Once

Product Description: Poetry. Translation. "Norman Fisher has created, for the time being, the perfect introduction to Leslie Scalapino's poetics. MAGNOLIAS ALL AT ONCE offers a set of commentaries on Dogen, the astounding medieval Japanese Zen writer, by the mind-bending contemporary American poet Leslie Scalapino...read more

By Norman Fischer

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9780935162806 | Singing Horse Pr, August 15, 2015, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong

Product Description: Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West only in the last twenty years or soâand it has become very popular indeed, because it's a practice that one can fit very well into an ordinary life, and because it works...read more

By Norman Fischer

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9781501227790 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, July 28, 2015), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion.

Entrenar la compasiÃ³n/ Train compassion: Ensenanzas Zen Para La Practica Del Lojong / Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong

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By Norman Fischer

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9786073128063, titled "Entrenar la compasiÃ³n/ Train compassion: Ensenanzas Zen Para La Practica Del Lojong / Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong" | Grijalbo Mondadori, January 2, 2015, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Brand New.

Escape This Crazy Life of Tears: Japan, July 2010

Product Description: Poetry. In July, 2010, Zen priest Norman Fischer travelled to Kyoto to visit temples and meet with fellow practitioners. A CRAZY LIFE OF TEARS is a poetic journal of that trip. Fischer's poetry examines what it means to sit at the nexus of the past, present and future and links questions of being with vivid details of daily life...read more

By Norman Fischer

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9780989186131 | Tinfish, August 1, 2014, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

A White Tea Bowl: 100 Haiku from 100 Years of Life

By Norman Fischer (introduced by), Kate McCandless (trans), Mitsu Suzuki and Kazuaki Tanahashi (editor)

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9781930485358 | Rodmell Pr, March 11, 2014, cover price $14.95

The Strugglers

Product Description: Poetry. THE STRUGGLERS is Norman Fischer's fourth book of poetry with Singing Horse Press. Divided into six poetic sequences, "Norman Fischer's new poems—including a rhetorically stunning series after Mandelstam—make you stop and think—about everyday life and its sampled commodifications—about global turbulence and local pleasure...read more

By Norman Fischer

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9780935162493 | Singing Horse Pr, January 10, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World

Product Description: Proposing that contemplation is an active practice that can take place anywhere, anytime--in the Volkswagen repair shop, at the Farmer's Market, at PetSmart--Brenda Miller and Holly J. Hughes share experiences that have helped them bring mindfulness and new avenues of expression into their writing...read more

By Norman Fischer (foreword by), Holly J. Hughes and Brenda Miller

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9781558966536 | Skinner House Books, June 1, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Proposing that contemplation is an active practice that can take place anywhere, anytime--in the Volkswagen repair shop, at the Farmer's Market, at PetSmart--Brenda Miller and Holly J.

Conflict

Product Description: Poetry. "The conflict Norman Fischer speaks of in this poem is an inherent component of the universe. He writes of the human dilemma, the struggles of daily life, and the desire to 'hold the world in place,' showing us how not to be mired in any one spot...read more

By Norman Fischer

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9780925904720 | Chax Pr, January 31, 2012, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls

By Norman Fischer

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9781416560210 | Free Pr, June 3, 2008, cover price $25.00

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9781556439964 | North Atlantic Books, July 5, 2011, cover price $18.95

Questions, Places, Voices, Seasons

By Norman Fischer

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9780935162431, titled "Questions/Places/Voices/Seasons" | Singing Horse Pr, August 1, 2009, cover price $16.00

Charlotte's Way

Product Description: Poetry. Norman Fischer's long poem takes as its place CHARLOTTE'S WAY, a house on the California coast, but mostly the poem takes things in. Fischer, a Zen priest, meditates on talk, the passing of time, the brain, catness, bills to be paid, poems, search parties, birds and myriad other subjects as they flicker in and out of thought...read more

By Norman Fischer

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9780978992958 | Tinfish, January 5, 2009, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

Sailing Home: Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls

By Norman Fischer

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9781416560234 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, November 30, 2016), cover price $15.00

Miscellaneous:

9781416560395 | Free Pr, June 3, 2008, cover price $16.99

Here: A Poem for Billy High 1959-2004

Product Description: Poetry. "Reading this poem.we become aware of the 'leaves and ghosts of leaves,' crows, jays, tulips, lilacs and rain. Writing the natural world begins and ends with a 'vanishing out here among us.' And time, the 'empty boat,' implies the emptiness that is form...read more

By Norman Fischer (photographer) and John High

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9781584980537 | Talisman House Pub, December 31, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

Foundations of Civic Engagement: Rethinking Social And Political Philosophy

Product Description: Foundations of Civic Engagement is a comprehensive survey and reassessment of the entire field of social and political philosophy. Suitable for use as a primary text for courses on political thought, this book explores the basic arguments of the most important historical and contemporary figures and offers a thematic critique and integration of these philosophies...read more

By Ralph D. Ellis, Norman Fischer and James B. Sauer

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9780761835356 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 25, 2006, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Foundations of Civic Engagement is a comprehensive survey and reassessment of the entire field of social and political philosophy.

I Was Blown Back

By Norman Fischer

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9780935162325 | Singing Horse Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $15.00

Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up

Draws on the author's experiences as a mentor to teenage boys to investigate cultural assumptions about adulthood, citing such qualities as awareness, responsibility, and humor as the marks of a mature person while explaining why maturity is a crucial part of a fulfilled life. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Norman Fischer

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9780060505516 | 1 edition (Harper San Francisco, May 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Draws on the author's experiences as a mentor to teenage boys to investigate cultural assumptions about adulthood, citing such qualities as awareness, responsibility, and humor as the marks of a mature person.

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9780060587192 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 2004), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Draws on the author's experiences as a mentor to teenage boys to investigate cultural assumptions about adulthood, citing such qualities as awareness, responsibility, and humor as the marks of a mature person while explaining why maturity is a crucial part of a fulfilled life.

Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation

By Zen Master Dogen, Norman Fischer (introduced by) and Kazuaki Tanahashi (editor)

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9781590300244 | Shambhala Pubns, April 1, 2004, cover price $22.95

Slowly But Dearly

Product Description: Poetry. New work by this well-known Bay Area writer and Zen teacher. "It's freezing at degree zero, wind bites -/ The crystal arguments fall into taller shapes/ And the tension around the eyes lengthens/ At the end of every turn around the park/ 'Kick Me' is a sign everyone wears" (from "The Enigma of Memory")...read more

By Norman Fischer

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9780925904416 | Chax Pr, June 30, 2003, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms

Applying his own Jewish roots and his knowledge of Eastern and Western spirituality, a Zen priest and poet presents a collection of stunning and personal translations of the Psalms for every spiritual path or religious background. Reprint.

By Norman Fischer

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9780670030613 | Viking Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Applying his own Jewish roots and his knowledge of Eastern and Western spirituality, a Zen priest and poet presents a collection of translations of the Psalms for every spiritual path or religious background.

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9780142196137 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 2003), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Applying his own Jewish roots and his knowledge of Eastern and Western spirituality, a Zen priest and poet presents a collection of stunning and personal translations of the Psalms for every spiritual path or religious background.

Benedict's Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict

Important Buddhist scholars share their insights into the rule of Saint Benedict, revealing surprising common ground shared by the monastic traditions of Christianity and Buddhism. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Norman Fischer, Joseph Goldstein, Patrick Henry (editor), Judith Simmer-Brown and Yifa

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9781573221900 | Riverhead Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Buddhist scholars share their insights into the rule of Saint Benedict, revealing surprising common ground shared by the monastic traditions of Christianity and Buddhism.

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9781573229401 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, July 1, 2002), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Important Buddhist scholars share their insights into the rule of Saint Benedict, revealing surprising common ground shared by the monastic traditions of Christianity and Buddhism.

Success

By Norman Fischer

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9780935162196 | Singing Horse Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $14.00

Jerusalem Moonlight: An American Zen Teacher Walks The Path Of His Ancestors

Product Description: Book by Fischer, Norman

By Norman Fischer

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9780931425462 | Clear Glass Pubns, February 1, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Book by Fischer, Norman

Precisely the Point Being Made: A Book of Poems

By Norman Fischer

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9781882022144 | Chax Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $10.00

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