Dan Zigmond is a writer, technologist, and Zen teacher.
Dan has been a Zen priest since 1998, when he was ordained by the late Kobun Chino Otagawa Roshi at Jikoji Zen Temple in the hills above Silicon Valley. He has been teaching meditation and mindfulness to students for over a decade, and received full transmission as a Zen master in 2020. He currently leads retreats at Jikoji and the Esalen Institute, and has also taught at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum.
Dan also serves on the board of directors of both Jikoji and the San Francisco Zen Center, and is the past treasurer of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. His most recent book is Buddha's Office: The Ancient Art of Waking Up While Working Well.
Finding balance with work and family.
Dan also raised two daughters and has a successful career in Silicon Valley. He has led teams at several notable technology companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. After decades of wearing these many hats, he frequently writes and teaches about work-life balance.
Finding balance with food.
Together with co-author Tara Cottrell, Dan wrote Buddha's Diet: The Ancient Art of Losing Weight Without Losing Your Mind to help people everywhere find balance in their relationship to eating and food.
Buddha’s teachings were all about moderation. Yet a lot of us are stuck in the same extremes Buddha rejected—eating everything that’s not nailed down one month, then starving ourselves on some crazy diet the next. And it doesn’t work. We end up overweight and unhappy, wasting time fighting with food when we should be living our lives. Buddha’s Diet can help you change that.
