Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong - Session 4

Interfaith minister Elizabeth River leads a class based on Norman Fischer’s book Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong.  The class will delve deeply into the seven key concepts and the 59 slogans of Lojong, the art of training the mind, to strengthen both compassion and resiliency in our everyday lives as we age together in community. Practicing meditation, writing, and reverent listening, we will expand our capacity for spiritual intimacy with others and the world. Point Reyes Books offers 10% off this book to participants. Presented by Point Reyes Books and Black Mountain Circle. Register at lizebiz@gmail.com.

About Norman Fischer: Fischer holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a masters from the Graduate Theological Union at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Zen Buddhist priest for nearly 30 years, serving as abbot for the San Francisco Zen Center from 1995-2000. Founder and teacher of the Everyday Zen Foundation, he is one of the most highly respected Zen teachers in America, regularly leading Zen Buddhist retreats and events. He periodically leads creative writing workshops and gives poetry readings and has taught at Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Stanford universities.

About Elizabeth River: Elizabeth River is an Interfaith minister, ordained by the Chaplaincy Institute, an Interfaith Seminary & Community in 2004. She is a hospice chaplain, and she also officiates weddings and memorial services. Her central spiritual practices include living in gratitude at every moment, spending as much time as possible in nature, and loving and accepting people as they are, helping them connect with one another. She lives in Inverness.

About Black Mountain Circle: Black Mountain Circle is a California nonprofit organization created by Point Reyes Books to explore the relationships between the arts, spirit, story, and place. The Circle serves as the fiscal sponsor of the literary journal the West Marin Review, the bi-annual Geography of Hope Conference, and an expanded set of programs hosted at the Point Reyes Presbyterian Church and elsewhere, including author events, retreats, films, book groups, and writing workshops for youths and adults.