43 min
Meditation
A Guided Sitting
Forty minutes of guided meditation led by Ozeki, recorded for a college audience.
About the teacher
Ruth Ozeki
American novelist, filmmaker and Zen priest (born 1956), ordained in the Soto tradition. Her novels, among them A Tale for the Time Being and The Book of Form and Emptiness, have been translated into more than thirty languages and carry the questions of practice into fiction.
Upcoming events
Meet Ruth Ozeki in person.
Talks, day programmes and retreats currently listed in the Paths Are Many calendar.
No upcoming events are currently listed.
Talks & videos
Watch before you attend.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
91 min
Interview
On Books and Tales
An hour and a half with Jon Joseph of Pacific Zen Institute on storytelling as a form of practice.
61 min
Interview
On Buddhism and Creativity, with Stephen Batchelor
An hour with Stephen Batchelor on where practice and making things meet, and where they get in each other's way.
43 min
Talk
The Book of Form and Emptiness
A talk at Upaya Zen Center on the novel that takes its title from a line of the Heart Sutra.
Path
The wider context.
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Zazen & everyday awareness
Zen
Direct meditative practice, zazen and everyday awareness in traditions rooted in Chinese Chan and its later forms.
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