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Teachers

• Guo Gu
• Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler

Practice Center

Online for SFZC

Date / Time

• Sun, Feb 1, 2026: 2:00–4:00 PM PT
• Sun, Feb 8, 2026: 2:00–4:00 PM PT

Description

In this luminosity, wondrousness returns.
—Master Hongzhi Zhengjue (1091–1157)

We invite you to a two-part series of teachings and conversations with Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler
in dialogue with special guest Guo Gu. Their conversation will center on two vital aspects of zazen
practice in the traditions of silent illumination and shikantaza: relaxation and
wonderment. Their discussion may venture into other related topics.

Guo Gu is the founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center and Dharma Relief, and a professor of Buddhism
and East Asian religions at Florida State University. He has been practicing for nearly forty years,
thirty of them under the guidance of the late Master Sheng Yen. Guo Gu was authorized in 1995 to teach Chan.
His teaching bridges Silent Illumination and Huatou (koan-based inquiry) in the Chan tradition.

Green Gulch Farm Abiding Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler received Dharma transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman
and is the author of Two Shores of Zen and co-editor of Becoming Yourself: Teachings on the Zen Way of Life
by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.have any questions.