DHARMA TEACHERS
Three Dharma teachers are available for guidance and instruction. Head Teacher Steve Matuszak, and Senior Teachers Steve Hagen and Norm Randolph.
Three Dharma teachers are available for guidance and instruction. Head Teacher Steve Matuszak, and Senior Teachers Steve Hagen and Norm Randolph.
Steve Matuszak is head teacher at Dharma Field. He teaches classes, gives public talks, runs meditation workshops, offers meditation instruction and dokusan (personal meetings with students), and leads sesshins (meditation retreats). He began practicing at Dharma Field in 2007 and was ordained by Steve Hagen in 2015, from whom he received dharma transmission in 2020.
Steve Hagen is the founding teacher of Dharma Field (1997). He has been a student of Buddhist thought and practice since 1967. In 1975 he became a student of Dainin Katagiri Roshi in Minneapolis and was ordained by him in 1979. He has studied with teachers in the U.S., Asia, and Europe, and received Dharma transmission (endorsement to teach) from Katagiri Roshi in 1989.
Steve Hagen is the author of the following books: • The Grand Delusion (2020) Click here for book's website • Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense (2012) A revised and updated edition of: How the World Can Be the Way It Is (1995) • Meditation Now or Never (2007) • Buddhism Is Not What You Think (2003) • Buddhism Plain and Simple (1997) • How the World Can Be the Way It Is (1995) He edited: *You Have to Say Something, a collection of Dharma talks by Dainin Katagiri (1998) |
Originally from north-central Minnesota,Jed Larson began his study of Buddhism in Minneapolis under Steve Hagen in 2002. Jed received the precepts in 2004, was ordained in 2014, and received Dharma Transmission from Steve Hagen in 2025. Jed teaches classes, gives talks, leads workshops, sesshins, and study groups, and gives meditation instruction at Dharma Field. He has served as Shissui (Work Leader), Ino (Practice Director), and is currently serving as the Program Coordinator at the center.
Beau Elkington began studying Buddhist teachings in 2006 and practicing with members of the Duluth, MN Bluestone Zen Practice Community in 2009. He started sitting retreats at Dharma Field in 2010 and moved to Minneapolis, MN in 2011 to begin formal training at Dharma Field. He was ordained in 2013, and received Dharma Transmission from Steve Hagen in 2025. He currently teaches classes and gives public talks.
Norm Randolph is a senior teacher Emeritus at Dharma Field. Born in San Francisco in 1943, he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a psychology degree and worked in an Air Force psychiatric clinic. In 1969 he met Dainin Katagiri Roshi in San Francisco, and moved to Minneapolis when Katagiri Roshi went there in 1972. He was ordained in 1978 and received Dharma Transmission in 1989.
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INSTRUCTORS
Mary Sullivan has been studying Buddhist teachings and doing meditation practice since 1992. In 1993, she and her husband, David Shaw, met Steve Hagen and became his students. She has been a member of Dharma Field Meditation and Learning Center since its formation in 1998. She was lay ordained in 2000, and taught meditation and Zen practice at Boynton Health Service for a number of years. She meditates, teaches classes, takes classes, and gives talks at Dharma Field.
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