Taishin

Antonio Taishin Arana Soto is a Spanish Sōtō Zen monk and dharma heir of Roland Yuno Rech, godo of the Dōjō Zen Genjō in Pamplona / Iruña^[1][2]. He began zazen practice in 1985 in the AZI network, received the bodhisattva precepts from Yuno Rech in 1998, and was ordained a monk in 2003^[2][3]. The Pamplona dōjō he leads takes its name from genjō (現成 — the manifestation of ultimate reality in daily life), one of the central terms of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō^[2].

In March 2016 Arana received shihō from Roland Yuno Rech, and he now coordinates the team of Spanish translators for the ABZE website and co-translated (with Txus Laita) Yuno Rech's commentary on the Genjōkōan into Spanish^[1][2][3]. He teaches regularly in Pamplona, leads zazen weekends in Bilbao and Seville, and is one of the principal Rech-line teachers in northern Spain alongside Lluís Nansen Salas in Catalonia and Alonso Taikai Ufano in Andalusia^[2][3].