Sekiyo Sensei
Morris Sekiyo Sullivan, Sensei
Volusia Buddhist Fellowship
Lay Minister, Bright Dawn Institute for American Buddhism
Dharma Teacher, Volusia Buddhist Fellowship
Morris Sekiyo Sullivan first became interested in Buddhism and meditation as a teenager in the 1970s. He began facilitating Volusia Buddhist Fellowship meetings in DeLand in 2004, and shortly afterward began meeting with Buddhist inmates at Tomoka Correctional Institution.
Sekiyo-sensei first got interested in Zen Buddhism and then tried some Tibetan practices, but a chance encounter with the abbot of Wat Florida Dhammaram, a Thai Theravada Buddhist temple in Kissimmee, led to a much more focused spiritual path and eventually to his ordination for a monastic retreat.
That tradition continues to provide the foundation for his own practice, but Sekiyo-Sensei felt he could better meet the spiritual needs of a growing area Buddhist community if he took a more nonsectarian approach as a dharma teacher and he enrolled in the lay minister program of the Bright Dawn Institute for American Buddhism.
Bright Dawn’s “Way of Oneness” approach to Buddhism is rooted in the Japanese Mahayana tradition, but the organization emphasizes the universal teachings of the historic Gautama Buddha, focusing on individual spiritual growth rather than any sectarian dogma or ritual. Sekiyo-sensei was inducted as a Bright Dawn minister in spring 2010.
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