Daizan Roshi talks about a short, 3-day "Breakthrough to Zen" retreat he's put together and has been running for the last few years. During all his years teaching meditation and Zen, Daizan has found this to be the most effective method of bringing people (even without any prior meditation experience) to seeing the truth of who they really are. He discusses the influences he's had putting this retreat together, and why it's so effective.

Over many years of strict training, in Japan and the west, Julian Daizan Skinner Roshi received Dharma Transmission and permission to teach in both the Rinzai and Soto lineages of Zen. He now teaches at the Yugagyo Dojo in London, UK. For more information see http://www.zenways.org