Draft:Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard
Zuisei, 2023
Personal
Born1973
Mexico City
ReligionZen Buddhism
SchoolRinzai and Sōtō
LineageMountains and Rivers Order (part of White Plum Asanga)
Senior posting
TeacherJohn Daido Loori
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard (born 1973) is a Mexican American Zen Buddhist teacher. She is a writer, editor, former monastic, and author of the book Still Running: the Art of Meditation in Motion. Her writings have been featured in Tricycle Magazine, Lion's Roar, Buddhadharma, and Parabola. She has served as Tricycle Magazine's Teachings Editor and is the Guiding Teacher of Ocean Mind Sangha.

Zen Training

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Shortly after graduating from college at the University of Pennsylvania, Zuisei entered into Zen training at Zen Mountain Monastery with her first teacher—also founder and abbot of the monastery—John Daido Loori. Zuisei lived and trained there full-time for twenty-four years, mostly as a monastic, and later as a lay practitioner and teacher. She led retreats and meditation workshops, and began working with Zen students one on one. In 2018 she received dharma transmission (authorization to teach) from her teacher and current abbot of the monastery, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold.[1] After leaving the monastery, Zuisei resided and taught in New York City before moving to Playa del Carmen, and subsequently, to Panama City, Panama. She continues to teach worldwide as the Guiding Teacher at Ocean Mind Sangha via virtual classes, retreats, and one-on-one sessions with newcomers and informal and formal students.[2]

Writing and editing

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While at Zen Mountain Monastery, Zuisei fulfilled various editorial roles and served as creative director and director of operations for Dharma Communications, the monastery's outreach arm. She oversaw the monastery's websites, journals, books, and various print materials.[3]

Her writing has been featured in the Buddhist journals Lion's Roar, Buddhadharma, and Parabola, and she is a regular contributor at Tricycle Magazine: The Buddhist Review, where she also worked as the Teachings Editor from 2021 to 2023.

Books

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  • Still Running: the Art of Meditation in Motion (2020) ISBN 9781611808193[4]
  • Weather Any Storm: How to Navigate Life's Ups, Downs, and All Arounds, Illustrated by Paddy Donnelly (2023)[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Teachers & Staff - Geoffrey Shugen Arnold". Zen Mountain Monastery.
  2. ^ Hinkel, Kathleen. "A Day in the Dharma with Vanessa Zuisei Goddard". Tricycle.
  3. ^ "Featured Contributors". No. Winter 2021. Tricycle Magazine.
  4. ^ "Still Running: The Art of Meditation in Motion". No. Tip Sheet: What to Read Next. Publishers Weekly. 3 June 2020.
  5. ^ Humphreys, Kate (2023). "Weather Any Storm by Vanessa Zuisei Goddard (review)". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 77 (3): 102. doi:10.1353/bcc.2023.a909620. ISSN 1558-6766.
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