Peter Coyote - Things As It Is, A Roving Discussion of Zen in the Vernacular, Crow Poetry and Beyond

Join Host Steve Heilig as we bring back author, actor, and local celebrity Peter Coyote to The New School. They will talk about Peter’s recent books-Zen in the Vernacular: Things As It Is and Tongue of A Crow-and ramble across many other topics. The event is the kickoff to Commonweal’s Spring Celebration, which features a food truck, jazz bands, tours from the National Park Service and the Maritime Radio Historical Society, a kid’s Art Barn, among much more.
Peter Coyote
Peter has written five books including the international bestseller Sleeping Where I Fall and "The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education," which reached second on the Marin County bestseller list. His third book, entitled The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet the Buddha, outlines a long-standing series of classes he runs using acting, improvisation and masks to induce temporary ego-free states and is based on Peter’s work as a Zen Buddhist student of more than 40 years. As an actor, he has performed for some of the world’s most distinguished filmmakers, including Barry Levinson, Roman Polanski, Pedro Almodovar, Steven Spielberg, Martin Ritt, Steven Soderberg, Sidney Pollack and Jean Paul Rappeneau. He was the co-host of the Academy Award show with Billy Crystal in 2020. He is a double Emmy-Award winning narrator of more than 160 documentary films, including Ken Burns acclaimed The Roosevelts, for which he received his second Emmy nomination in July 2015.
Steve Heilig
Steve is director of Public Health and Education for the San Francisco Medical Society and the Collaborative for Health and Environment at Commonweal, co-editor of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and a clinical ethicist at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. He is also a trained hospice worker and former volunteer and director of the Zen Hospice Project. A longtime book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications, he has authored more than 400 pieces on a wide range of medical, public health, ecological, literary, and other topics.
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[@joegrant8]

Brilliant thoughts on media and helpful reminders.. always learning from this guy. Pete is such a deep, kind and authentic human. Feeling very blessed to have known, meditated and hung out with him.

[@NewSchoolCommonweal]

Thanks for watching !

[@mishabearwoman4811]

"...as crazy and batsh!t upside down, topsy turvy as things get, it's helpful to have people who are calm and clear and fearless who can call things out for what they are." ~Peter Coyote @41:12 Word! Thanks for being one of them, Peter. Marvelous episode. I found the poem with the goldfinch poignant and moving.

[@NewSchoolCommonweal]

Yep, so true!

[@mitzilinn]

What a treat. Thanks guys

[@NewSchoolCommonweal]

Thanks for watching!

[@jerryeldini1849]

Wow

[@BruceMollberg]

Dear Peter Coyote , here in Kalispell , Mt . They have just decided to close down the warming center , winter is coming , these people will have no where to stay !! I just want you to know , as I know you care and hoping you can help or lend your voice to this ,life & death matter !!