Flowers of Emptiness

Avrom Altman began studying Zen Buddhism in 1967 and sat zazen with Shunry? Suzuki Roshi at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. In 1972, Avrom attended a ten-month residential course at Sherborne House under the direction of J.G. Bennett, a student of G.I. Gurdjieff. In the 1980s, while a resident of Claymont, an intentional community created by Bennett, Avrom was head gardener, Gurdjieff Movements teacher, and directed studies of ten-month residential courses before becoming President of the Cla