Seijaku Stephen Roshi is the founder of The Zen Society, former Spiritual Director at Pine Wind Zen Center, author, and teacher.
After a series of personal transformative insights during the early years of his life, Seijaku began teaching publicly in 1975 at the request of his friends and students. Ten years later he founded The Zen Society, a nonprofit organization (501c3 New Jersey).
My work is to help whomever I can, to realize the utmost importance of living their life, not mine or anyone else’s, in the very brief time we are all given to do so. Why is this the “utmost importance? A tree helps us breathe, helps us stay warm and dry, helps cook our food, provides us with playful and romantic opportunities, dreams and so much more, because it lives its life as a ‘tree’. It has no desire to be anything other than a tree. It lives until it dies, and when it dies, what a terrible thing for the rest of us. – Seijaku Roshi
With a mastery born of more than 35 years of teaching, Seijaku Roshi is one of today’s most preeminent spiritual teachers and pioneers in the field of human potential and authentic spirituality for the 21st Century. He continues to be a vocal critic of the extreme individualism that characterizes much of contemporary spirituality, a fear-based culture and consumerism in our society.
Seijaku challenges us to awaken to a new understanding of spirituality for the 21st Century, what he calls “Authentic Spirituality”, and to redefine for ourselves and our world what it really means to – “be truly alive, to be truly happy, and – to be a human being”.
Seijaku is available for keynote speaking engagements and workshops for both corporate and personal development.