Tozen Soshin

Tozen Soshin was a Rinzai Zen master who maintained the tradition's transmission in Japan. He contributed to the school's institutional and spiritual life, training students in the koan curriculum and the practice of intensive zazen.

Soshin's teaching reflected the Rinzai tradition's integration of koan practice with all aspects of monastic life. The school teaches that awakening is not limited to formal meditation but must pervade every activity—walking, working, eating, sleeping—until the entire life becomes an expression of realized mind.