Rev. Seiso Paul Cooper, Sensei is an ordained Soto Zen Buddhist priest and formally transmitted teacher in the lineage of Dainin Katagiri; Member of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association; American Zen Teacher’s Association; Co-founder and former guiding teacher: Two Rivers Zen Community in Narrowsburg, N.Y.; Lincoln Zen Center, Lincoln, Nebraska; Founder & Guiding Teacher, Zen Meditation Circle, Barre, Vermont; Faculty: Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Psychotherapy and California Institute for Integral Studies, Former Dean of Training: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; Faculty, training analyst, supervisor: Institute for Expressive Analysis, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Member Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies; Award-winning author: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism: A Realizational Perspective (2023), Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting (2019), The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter (2010); Three Stones Haiku; Solitary Moon: New Waka; private practice in Montpelier, Vermont.
Barre Zen Meditation Center Kokyoji, (Eternal Mirror Temple) 