Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe

Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe is a Dharma Holder with Eon Zen Center who has been practicing in the White Plum lineage since his first introduction at ZCLA in 1975. With his family, he lived and practiced at ZCLA from 1984-'86, studied with Joko Beck in San Diego into the early 90's, and has been a student of Gerry Shishin Wick, Roshi, Roshi Ilia Shinko Perez of Great Mountain Zen Center and, currently, Paul Gyodo Agostinelli, Sensei at Eon Zen. This intimate connection to our contemporary teachers and to our Zen ancestors, this bloodline of our lineage, is most precious. The Lakota say, Mitakuye Oyasin, or “all are related”.

Shōun serves as Eon Zen’s administrative staff and also coordinates program enrollment and our newsletter. He lives in the foothills above Boulder, has three adult children and three grandchildren. He has been the Zen Peacemakers Executive Director since early 2020.