DHARMA TEACHERS
Two Dharma teachers are available for guidance and instruction. Head Teacher Steve Hagen and Senior Teacher Norm Randolph are both Dharma heirs of Dainin Katagiri Roshi.
Two Dharma teachers are available for guidance and instruction. Head Teacher Steve Hagen and Senior Teacher Norm Randolph are both Dharma heirs of Dainin Katagiri Roshi.
Steve Hagen is the founder and head of Dharma Field and has been a student of Buddhist thought and practice since 1967. In 1975 he began practicing with 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: • 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) |
Norm Randolph is a senior teacher 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
Steve Matuszak is the program coordinator at Dharma Field, where in addition to his duties as program coordinator scheduling talks and curriculum, he teaches classes, gives public talks, runs meditation workshops, offers meditation instruction, and leads sesshins (meditation retreats). He has been a student at
Dharma Field since 2007 and was ordained by Steve Hagen in 2015. 
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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Jed Larson began his study at Dharma Field in 2004 and was ordained by Steve Hagen in 2015. Jed teaches classes at Dharma Field, gives public talks and meditation instruction.
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