Taking Our Places by Norman Fischer

Taking Our Places by Norman Fischer

This engaging contemplation of maturity addresses the long neglected topic of what it means to grow up, and provides a hands-on guide for skilfully navigating the demands of our adult lives.

Growing up happens whether we like it or not, but maturity must be cultivated. Challenged to consider his own sense of maturity while mentoring a group of teenage boys, Fischer began to investigate our preconceptions about what it means to be ࠮ adultߡnd shows how crucial true maturity is to leading an engaged, fulfilled life.

Taking Our Places details the marks of a mature person and shows how these attributes can help alleviate our suffering and enrich our relationships. Discussing such qualities as awareness, responsibility, humour, acceptance, and humility, Fischer brings a fresh, and at times surprising, new perspective that can turn old ideas on their heads and reinvigorate our understanding of what it means to be mature.

Fischer, Norman: - A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, Norman Fischer is a poet and essayist. He has been practicing as a Zen Buddhist priest for thirty-five years, and is one of the senior Zen teachers in America. The latest of his more than twenty-five poetry and prose titles are EXPERIENCE: THINKING, WRITING, LANGUAGE AND RELIGION (prose, Poetics Series, University of Alabama Press), CONFLICT (poetry, Chax Press), THE STRUGGLERS (poetry, Singing Horse Press), MAGNOLIAS ALL AT ONCE (poetry, Singing Horse), and ANY WOULD BE IF (poetry, Chax Press). In 2000 he retired as co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, one of the largest Buddhist organizations in the West, and founded The Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org), an international network of Buddhist groups and social projects. His latest Buddhist title is Training in Compassion (Shambhala). Norman Fischer lives on a cliff near Muir Beach California with his wife Kathie, also a Zen priest. Their two sons live in Brooklyn.

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ISBN 13	9780060505516
ISBN 10	0060505516
Title	Taking Our Places
Author	Norman Fischer
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2003-05-06
Number of pages	212
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