Wisdom for Difficult Times:
What the Buddhists Teach

DAILY SCHEDULE (subject to change)
 

LOCATION

Hotel Kabuki
1625 Post St
San Francisco, C.A. 94115
415.922.3200  
http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/kabuki/ 

*Workshop participants are offered a special room rate of $149(single) — $159(double). 
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ABOUT THE TEACHERS

Sylvia Boorstein, LCSW, PhD, is a co-founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, and a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts. She has led retreats in the United States, Canada, and Israel; is the author of five books on Buddhism and meditation practice, most recently, Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life; and is a regular columnist for the Shambhala Sun.

Sylvia has been a psychotherapist since 1967, a panelist and workshop leader at conferences of the American Psychiatric Association, and has published articles in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.

She is currently involved in two major retreat events the Shambhala Sun has planned for New York City and San Francisco: “Mindfulness, Love and Relationships” and “Wisdom for Challenging Times.”


For over 15 years, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has been teaching students worldwide about the innermost nature of mind in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is the author of two books, Carefree Dignity and Fearless Simplicity, and has a keen interest in the ongoing dialogue between western research, especially in neuroscience, and Buddhist practitioners and scholars.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a meditation master of the Drukpa Kagyu and Nyingma traditions.  Rinpoche was born in 1966 and was recognized as a tulku at the age of eight. His teachers include some of the most renowned masters of Tibet, including Khamtrul Rinpoche, his father Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, and  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Rinpoche is the spiritual head of two nunneries and one monastery in Nepal, as well as one of the largest nunneries in Tibet. He also heads 50+ practice centers and hermitages with over 2,000 nuns and 900 monks. Ngesdön Ösel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu is his seat in the East, and Yeshe Rangsal in Crestone, Colorado, is his seat in the West.

Zoketsu Norman Fischer is a poet and Zen Buddhist priest. For many years he has taught at the San Francisco Zen Center, the oldest and largest of the new Buddhist organizations in the West, where he served as Co-abbot from 1995-2000. He is presently a Senior Dharma Teacher there as well as the founder and spiritual director of the Everyday Zen Foundation, an organization dedicated to adapting Zen Buddhist teachings to Western culture.

Norman has been particularly interested in the application of Zen to issues of Western culture and everyday life in the world.  In addition to his regular work at Zen Center, and with Everyday Zen, he has taught extensively, with his old friend Rabbi Alan Lew, on the relationship between Buddhist and Jewish practice. He teaches Buddhist principles to business people, Buddhist compassion-in-action to lawyers and conflict resolvers, and poetry writing and appreciation to children and adults. He's led workshops at Esalen Institute in California, the Open Center in New York City, and Hollyhock Farm, in British Columbia, as well as at Zen Center, and teaches Zen regularly at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, as well as in Canada, Mexico, and Europe. He’s participated with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in conferences on Buddhist Christian dialog and non-violence.