The teacher at the frontier

ZEN Master Ken is the teacher and guide of Peace of Life. His teaching stands where modern physics ends: joining the Buddha’s awakening — the four stages of enlightenment, and Juki, the vow that begins a universe — with the language of relativity, quantum theory, and the vacuum, and translating both into a practice for ordinary daily life.

His work has gathered several hundred people into a community of study and practice, with lectures and retreats held at historic venues across Japan. On 1 November 2026 he will carry that work to Bodh Gaya, delivering a formal Dharma talk at the Mahabodhi Temple — the first by a Japanese teacher at the place of the Buddha’s awakening.