Sailing Home
We will spend a day in retreat with Zen teacher and author Norman Fischer reflecting on our life journey home. Norman will offer teachings from his new book, Sailing Home. The book is based on Homer's Odyssey, an ancient story that is significant for every generation: the struggle of a homesick, battle-weary human longing to return to love and family. Norman Fischer deftly incorporates Buddhist, Judaic, Christian, and popular thought, as well as his own unique and sympathetic understanding of life, in his reinterpretation of Odysseus's familiar wanderings. We will be invited to learn a new way to view our path, when to wait and when to act, when to speak our mind and when to exercise discretion, how to draw on our innate strength and distinguish between truth and deception, and how to deal with aging and changing relationships. Our reflections on Sailing Home will encourage us to renew bonds with loved ones and to make our lives a heart-centered journey of spirit and love.
A Twin Cities inter-sangha event
hosted at Clouds in Water Zen Center.
Saturday, July 12
9:00 am–5:00 pm
$60 ($50 for members of Clouds in Water Zen Center, Compassionate Ocean Dharma Center, Dharma Field, and Minnesota Zen Meditation Center) Lunch is included.
Friday, July 11, 7:00 pm
Suggested donation: $15 at the door
Doors open at 6:15. Informal meditation beginning at 6:30
Open to the public (no registration required)
Please direct inquiries to Dharma Field or phone 612-928-4868.
Dharma Field is located at 3118 West 49th Street.
Sunday, July 13, 10:00 am
Suggested donation: $15 at the door
Sitting meditation beforehand from 9:10 to 9:50
Open to the public (no registration required)
Please direct inquiries to MZMC or phone 612-822-5313.
MZMC is located at 3343 East Calhoun Parkway in Minneapolis.
Photograph by
Robert Hofmann
Sailing Home, Free Press
Norman Fischer is one of the most well-known Zen teachers in the country as well as a published poet and former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, the oldest and largest Zen Center in the West. He gives frequent talks on creativity and interfaith issues, as well as on conflict resolution and meditation.