Kyoun Sokuzan is head teacher of SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery.
John Gaynor teaches at the Oxford Zen Centre.
Brad Warner is a Soto Zen priest, author, and blogger at Hardcore Zen.
Shinshu Roberts Roshi is the co-Abiding Teacher of Ocean Gate Zen Center in Santa Cruz California. Her most recent publication is Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dogen Zenji’s Shobogenzo Uji.
Jundo Cohen, Zen teacher and founder of the Treeleaf Zendo, is the author of The Zen Master’s Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dogen and Who You Are in the Universe.
“When we read someone like Dogen, that should be a starting point. That’s an excuse to ask ourselves certain questions. Among them “Is this true or not, but also if it is true where does it take me?” So when we read that quotation by Dogen, when we read that text by Dogen, it should be like walking into a space that is very very big. The danger is that we read the text, we read the quotation, and it becomes an end point vs. a starting point.” – Koun Franz, Thousand Harbours Zen
Rev. Master Oswin Hollenbeck is a Senior Disciple of Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett. You can find more of his Dharma talks on Shasta Abbey’s website.