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Matthew Juksan Sullivan (1975-) 

Dharma name: 죽산 (竹山) Juksan

https://lzta.org/individual.php?tID=143
Matthew Juksan Sullivan has been practicing meditation for over 20 years. He first studied with Lama Tara Goforth and Lama Shenphen at Kunzang Dechen Osel Ling, a Shangpa-Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist retreat centre on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. He interrupted his studies at law school to do a year-long retreat with Lama Tara and Lama Shenphen from 1999-2000.
After re-locating to Toronto, Ontario, he became a student of Yangil Sunim, a Korean Zen Master and Patriarch of the Chogye Order. Yangil Sunim ordained Matthew as a Dharma Teacher in 2006 and in 2013 made him a Zen Master.

https://www.bluecliffrecord.ca/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mj5JVlGz2qn5uOFgXVqtQ
https://www.scribd.com/book/535778622/The-Garden-of-Flowers-and-Weeds-A-New-Translation-and-Commentary-on-The-Blue-Cliff-Record

 

The Garden of Flowers and Weeds:
A New Translation and Commentary on The Blue Cliff Record
by Matthew Juksan Sullivan
Monkfish Book Publishing Company, Rhinebeck, New York, 2021, 580 pages

“Drawing on the core teachings of Zen, my book is about radical acceptance. Accepting the unenlightened self with all its flaws is a profound form of enlightenment,” says Sullivan.

“My teacher, the Venerable Hwasun Yangil Sunim, issued an endorsement for The Garden of Flowers and Weeds: A New Translation and Commentary on the Blue Cliff Record.
Read Yangil Sunim’s letter.”

Hwasun Yangil Sunim
https://awakenedmeditationcentre.com/master-yangil/
https://mvseon.com/our-team/

“I benefited from the efforts of Gábor Terebess, who has done so much to salvage and digitize many out-of-print dharma books.” (In the book's acknowledgments section)

“I cannot slander him and say he walks with the ancients. I cannot praise him and say he does not walk with the ancients.  He writes from an intimacy with the fundamental matter to encourage the reader to read that way too. The core is to inquire into the self, to shamelessly do as a reader what my new brother Matthew does as a writer. Hui Neng indicated that, when regarding the sutras, you should let them read you, rather than you reading them. Here is a guided opportunity to do the same with the Blue Cliff Record.”
Zen Master Jok Um (Ken Kessel)

Excerpts from The Garden of Weeds and Flowers

The 41st Case: Touzi’s Great Death
The 74th Case: Jinniu Breaks into a Dance

A Directory of Commentaries for Each Case