Seiso Paul Cooper
Two Rivers Zen Community
Narrowsburg, NY
Seiso Chugai is an ordained priest and a transmitted teacher in the lineage of Dainin Katagiri. He has practiced and studied in both the Soto and the Rinzai traditions. began his formal practice in 1980 Seiso received Dharma transmission from Sojun Diane Martin Roshi. He is the founder and former guiding teacher of the Two Rivers Zen Community in Narrowsburg, NY. He currently lives in Barre, Vermont where he founded and leads the Barre Zen Meditation Center. He teaches and practices the shakuhachi as a Zen arts practice. Seiso is a psychoanalyst and maintains a private practice working as a supervisor with therapists in training and with individuals and couples in Montpelier, Vt. He is widely published on Psychoanalysis and Zen including his most recent publication: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism: A Realizational Perspective (2023 Routledge).