Larry Fuho Trussell

Larry Fuho Trussell has been practicing Zen since 1976, and received Lay Transmission from Chozen and Hogen Roshi in 2015. Fuho is the lead teacher on Sunday mornings at Heart of Wisdom. He is one of the sesshin leaders in ZCO. He works as a research scientist and is married with one grown son.

Upcoming Programs by Larry Fuho Trussell

City Refuge Retreat

November 6 - 8, 2025

Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple will be offering an extended opportunity for retreat practice in the city. This three-day non-residential retreat will include many of the elements you’ll find in sesshin.

December Sesshin - Rohatsu

Also With Hogen Bays, Roshi and Myoyu Haley Voekel

December 7 - 14, 2025

The current option is to sign up for the Waitlist. We will contact you with more information once you have joined the waitlist.  The light of the Buddha's awakening has not dimmed. This very moment, alive, awake and luminous. Each year people from all over the world gather to celebrate, to sit in stillness and […]

Pari-Nirvana Sesshin: A Meditation Retreat exploring Life, Death & the Unknown

Also With Myoyu Haley Voekel and Ed Gensho Welsh

February 16 - 22, 2026

During this sesshin we take up the Buddha’s Parinirvana–the Buddha’s death--as the essential inquiry into our own relationship with death, dying and the uncertainties of this life. How often in your daily life do you allow yourself to reflect on your own mortality, your own death? This sesshin provides the structure and support needed to […]

April Sesshin

Also With Laura Jomon Martin

April 13 - 19, 2026

Our meditation practice can be one of relaxed openness and vivid presence, with wisdom into our nature naturally revealing. This is the practice of serene-illumination, a form of meditation where calm-abiding (shamatha) and insight (vipassana) are practiced as one.   Sesshin is a rigorous and, at times, challenging silent meditation retreat that is not recommended […]