Tim Burkett began studying Zen in 1964 with Shunryu Suzuki, author of
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, and was ordained as a Zen priest in 1978 by Dainin Katagiri, author of
Returning to Silence and other books. Tim has been the guiding teacher at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center for the last 19 years. Tim is the author of
Nothing Holy About It (Shambhala) and
Zen in the Age of Anxiety: Wisdom for Navigating Our Modern Lives (Shambhala, 2018), which was selected as one of the 100 best spiritual books of 2018.