He is a Dharma heir of John Tarrant Roshi of Pacific Zen Institute. A native of Chile, he started his spiritual/meditation practice in 1967 when he arrived in San Francisco to go to college, studying the Gurdjieff Work with William Nyland before taking up Zen. He received authorization to teach Zen in 1995, and in 2001 received Dharma transmission from Tarrant Roshi. Daniel teaches and leads retreats twice a year in Ohio, sponsored by the Yellow Springs Dharma Center, and twice a year at Zen Viento del Sur in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at Zen Montañas y Mar in Santiago, Chile.