...mixing and matching," said Zoketsu Norman Fischer, a longtime Zen priest, scholar and poet affiliated with the San Francisco Zen Center. "The freedom people feel that they have to experiment - how do you prevent that from becoming consumerist or...

...open. But the more you meditate, the more you are able to focus." Yvonne Rand, a meditation teacher from San Francisco Zen Center, said meditation is an oral tradition. "You learn by sitting next to your teacher and observing those little...