Zen Master Thich Dieu-Thien was born and raised in Vietnam and is now living in the United States as the primary teacher at Universal Door Meditation Center in Houston, Texas. She is a Buddhist nun devoted to teaching the direct path to the end of suffering.  From her early childhood, she was consumed with the question of suffering, her own and all others'.  From there, she dedicated her life to this quest by practicing countless  methods from many different teachers and books of various traditions and cultures. However, nothing resolved the quest.  Consequently, she clearly knew the way to end her suffering cannot come from outside but comes from within. Nevertheless, she was still unclear about  exactly what, why, how to end suffering.  Her unyielding question grew ever stronger and forced her to the breaking point, to realize what has been often written and talked about but so rarely experienced... what is suffering, the cause, the system, the nature, and the end of suffering.

Through her own direct experience, she teaches students to know their suffering comes from within themselves and to find out why they suffer, without relying on intellect, concepts, books, sutras or other people’s experience.

Everything she teaches aims to the purpose of knowing your suffering and discovering more about the system of suffering in order to end the suffering. This exploration of the system of suffering is applied constantly in every moment. After you realize the system of suffering, you will see clearly what suffering is, the nature that makes up suffering, and you will end the suffering.