![]() ![]() His formal Zen training started at the Cleveland Zen Center in 1985 under Koshin Ogui Sensei, who had been Shunryu Suzuki’s personal assistant in the early 1960’s. ![]() In 1981, he began attending classes and retreats at the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley. ![]() Purser writings have been exploring the challenges and issues of introducing mindfulness into secular contexts, particularly with regards to its encounter with modernity, Western consumer capitalism, and individualism. 1 & 2 (Hampton Press, 2000), The Search Conference (John Wiley/Jossey-Bass, 1996) and over 60 academic journal articles and book chapters. He is co-author and co-editor of eight books including, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books, 2019), The Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context and Social Engagement (Springer, 2016), 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society (Stanford University Press, 2007), The Self Managing Organization (Simon & Schuster), Social Creativity Vols. He received his doctorate in organizational behavior at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to moving to San Francisco, he taught at Loyola University of Chicago. is a professor of management at San Francisco State University where he has taught the last twenty six years in both the MBA and undergraduate business programs. ![]()
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