Minnesota Zen Meditation CenterBiography
Jiryu Matt Cisler has been an active presence at MZMC since 2011. He learned meditation in the 1970’s and has been a meditation practitioner ever since.
His spiritual journey has been long and complex including studies and practices as varied as lucid dreaming, Western Hermeticism, and Asian internal style martial arts. This path led him finally to Zen Buddhism and MZMC where he was ordained as a priest in training in November of 2017 by his teacher Ted O’Toole.
Matt has been among other things, a visual artist, a punk noise guitarist, and an experimental soundscape artist. He lives and works in Minneapolis with his wife Julie, and is the caretaker of a variety of small creatures, both vertebrate and invertebrate.
His sincere wish is to share the teaching of the Dharma and the practice of meditation to help others as it has helped him.
Practice with Matt
Please register one week in advance. If cost is a concern, scholarships are available.
Nothing with Matt is on the calendar for the next three months.
Listen to Matt
Matt’s one recording in the Sunday talk archive.
- May 10, 2026 Prajnaparamita, the Mother of All Buddhas and Four Ancestors Talk