Mokushi Soen

Mokushi Soen was a Soto Zen master who contributed to the tradition's institutional and spiritual life in Japan. He maintained the school's emphasis on zazen as the foundation of practice and trained students in the methods of the Soto tradition.

Soen's teaching reflected the Soto school's characteristic integration of meditative depth with institutional responsibility. The tradition has always valued both the inner life of zazen and the outer life of community service, seeing them as two aspects of a single practice.