Zen priest, dharma teacher, and poet, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, visits Brooklyn Zen Center throughout the year to give talks and lead half-day and day-long sitting retreats with the BZC sangha, the Jewish Meditation Center and the Center for Mediation in Law.
Norman has spent almost 30 years at San Francisco Zen Center, having held many senior positions, including abbot and director. Norman is a dharma heir of Sojun Mel Weitsman, from whom he received Dharma transmission in 1988. Norman founded and currently leads the Everyday Zen Foundation, a network of sanghas with...
Tenshin Reb Anderson visits Brooklyn Zen Center to give dharma talks and lead five-day meditation retreats. He is a lineage-holder in the Soto Zen tradition.
Born in Mississipi, he grew up in Minnesota and left advanced study in mathematics and Western psychology to come to San Francisco Zen Center in 1967. He practiced with Suzuki Roshi, who ordained him as a priest in 1970 and gave him the name Tenshin Zenki (“Naturally Real, The Whole Works”). He received dharma transmission in 1983 and served as abbot of San Francisco Zen Center’s three training centers (City Center...

