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

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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.

Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation

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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

Charlotte's Way

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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.

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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.

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Product Description: Poetry. "Those of us who think about the reality of things do not do so because we have plenty of time. Reality is not a fixed and immutable attribute of things but a process, a fast or slow unfolding. And we don't know with certainty that reality has been given limitless time...read more

By Norman Fischer

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9780937013212 | Pressed Wafer Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

Economy and Self: Philosophy and Economics from the Mercantilists to Marx

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Product Description: An examination of the relationship between philosophical and economic thought in the nineteenth century, Economy and Self explores how the free enterprise theory of Classical Economy influenced and was in turn influenced by the philosophical notion of alienation common in the writings of the age...read more

By Norman Fischer

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9780313208881 | Praeger Pub Text, September 1, 1979, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: An examination of the relationship between philosophical and economic thought in the nineteenth century, Economy and Self explores how the free enterprise theory of Classical Economy influenced and was in turn influenced by the philosophical notion of alienation common in the writings of the age.

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

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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.

Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion

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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

Foundations of Civic Engagement: Rethinking Social And Political Philosophy

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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.

Here: A Poem for Billy High 1959-2004

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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.

I Was Blown Back

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By Norman Fischer

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

Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide

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By Norman Fischer (foreword by)

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

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

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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

Like a Walk Through the Park

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By Norman Fischer

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9780931416019 | Open Book Pubns, December 1, 1980, cover price $3.50

Magnolias All at Once

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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.

On Whether or Not to Believe in Your Mind

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Product Description: Poetry. "I have often experienced the fact that no matter how difficult or how wonderful things get there is always some expression that is made. The world goes on carelessly unfolding. For me this expression takes the temporary form I call writing, and it seems to possess a redemptive quality, a purifying property, which brings me back, cheers me up, time after time...read more

By Norman Fischer

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9780935724264 | Figures, December 1, 1987, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: Poetry.

Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms

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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.

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

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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.

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

Questions, Places, Voices, Seasons

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By Norman Fischer

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

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

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

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

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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

Slowly But Dearly

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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.

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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.

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