Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom

Zen teacher ZOKETSU NORMAN FISCHER on how sila, samadhi, and prajna work together to give us stability on the Buddhist path to liberation.

THE GENERATION of the 1960s—my generation—was the first in the West to practice Buddhism in appreciable numbers. In those days, the sense of upheaval was very strong and, for young men facing the Vietnam draft, immediate and dire. I remember this all too well. I left college in 1968 with a very hazy future. At any moment, I could be drafted to fight in what I considered to be an unjust and futile war. And just a few short years before that, everything had seemed so bright. The war in Vietnam shattered my generation, leaving us dazed and confused. It was also the era of the psychedelic revolution (which had, ironically, come about as a result of Cold War CIA experiments). This promised a way out: though we might have no…

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Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2024

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