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Matthew Sullivan


Name:    Matthew Sullivan
Title:    Zen Master
Preferred Name:    Matthew
Organization:    Awakened Meditation Centre
Lineage:    Korean Zen Buddhism
Matthew Juksan Sullivan has been practicing meditation for over 20 years. He first studied with Lama Tara Goforth and Lama Shenphen at Kunzang Dechen Osel Ling, a Shangpa-Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist retreat centre on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. He interrupted his studies at law school to do a year-long retreat with Lama Tara and Lama Shenphen from 1999-2000.

After re-locating to Toronto, Ontario, he became a student of Yangil Sunim, a Korean Zen Master and Patriarch of the Chogye Order. Yangil Sunim ordained Matthew as a Dharma Teacher in 2006 and in 2013 made him a Zen Master.

Matthew has been guiding meditation at Moksha Yoga Downtown Studio for over 7 years (downtown.mokshayoga.ca). He is currently writing a commentary on the Blue Cliff Record.