Seiso Paul C. Cooper, Sensei, Ph.D., LP.
Seiso is a Zen Buddhist Priest & formally transmitted teacher in the Soto Zen lineage; Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training In Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Member: American Zen Teachers Association. Former Director, Guiding Teacher: Two Rivers Zen Community in Narrowsburg, NY. Founder: Realizational Practice Studies Group, Barre, Vermont; Former Dean of Training: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; Faculty, Training Analyst, Supervisor: Institute for Expressive Analysis. Faculty: Contemplative Studies Project, NYC. Award-winning author: Psychoanalysis & Zen Buddhism: A Realizational Perspective (2023), Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting (2019), The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter (2010). He is a Vermont licensed and nationally certified psychoanalyst. He maintains a private psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice in Montpelier, Vermont; He has presented his work on Buddhism & Psychoanalysis internationally. He currently organizes, facilitates and leads retreats especially tailored for mental health professionals that integrate Buddhist theory and practice with psychoanalytic psychotherapy and he leads the Zen Meditation Circle in Barre, Vermont.
Barre Zen Meditation Center Kokyoji, (Eternal Mirror Temple) 