A whole book – read for you, chapter after chapter!

Monika Winkelmann is reading the Book “What is Zen – Plain Talk by a Beginner‘s Mind“, written by Norman Fischer and Susan Moon, chapter by chapter, each one in YouTube Format. The project was planned as an interactive study-project, but at least the first readings were just life-streamed and some listened to it.

Relax and close your eyes. Or cut the vegetables or whatever mechanical work can be well combined with some intense listening: Enjoy the smart questions, asked by Susan Moon and Norman Fischer’s clear and yet down-to-earth-answers, you were perhaps waiting for or you need some deepening of your understanding.

Susan Moon Sensei is book-author, leading writing workshops, writer and was an editor.

Norman Fischer Roshi is the former Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center, founder of everdayzen foundation (www.everydayzen.org), co-founder of Makor-Or, a Jewish Meditation Center. He is poet and book-author.

Monika Winkelmann is lay-ordained (Jukai) in the Zen Peacemaker Order and in Rinzai-Lineage. Studying with everydayzen Sangha. Meditation-teacher, poetry-therapist.

 

Book-Readings: Saturdays, 4-5pm MET (s. Termine)

 

Videos:

0 Preface by Norman Fischer, Introduction by Susan Moon

16.01.2021

1. What‘s the point

23.01.2021

 

2. Zazen

30.01.2021

3. Form and Ritual

06.02.2021

4. Awakening

23.02.2021

5. History

20.02.2021

6. Beliefs and Ethics

27.02.2021, Part 1 (p.59-67)

06.03.2021, Part 2 (p. 68ff.)

7. Teachings

06.04.2021, (p. 77ff., re-recording)

8. Teachers

27.03.2021, Part 1 (p. 89-100)

03.04.2021, Part 2, (p. 100ff.)

9. Stages of Practice

17.04.2021, Part 1

24.04.2021, Part 2

10. Over the Long Haul

03.05.2021

11. Sangha

08.05.2021

12. Everday Life and Everyday Relationships

24.05.2021, Part I

 

30.05.2021, Part II (p. 160-168)

13. Zen and Art

12.06.2021

14. Saving all Sentient Beings

18.06.2021