Author: Tozen
Publisher: Dragonyana Press
Pages: 105 6X9
ISBN: 09764675-1-8
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About the Author:
Master Tozen was born in Larissa, Greece--the same place as the mythic
Achilles--in the middle of the last century. From an early age Tozen exhibited
exceptional gifts in religious thought within the Greek Orthodox faith under the
tutelage of stern Orthodox monks, and was noted for pinning these austere
personages down through direct and uncompromising questions about all things in
the heavens.
In later stages of his spiritual journey, Tozen moved on to Sweden where a great
vision enraptured his mind and spirit. Having thoroughly examined all the world's
religions in great depth by seeking an answer that could explain this profound
vision, none were adequate and left a great void within the quest.
Later, Tozen arrived in Japan and had the good merit in meeting and studying the
wordless path under a great Zen-sage named Shindo Sawai; this sage, whose
temple was on Shikoku Island south of Osaka, was then in his late seventies and a
renowned Zen mystic within a more esoteric variant of Rinzai Zen.
Returning to Europe, Tozen's spirit experienced a great struggle for some years
until finally finding the proper entrance into the genuine buddhadharma and
realizing how to evolve in its light by the many years of past trials and errors
combined with the way he learned to enter the eternal principle of the
buddhadharma (as to see the truth) in Japan.
Fluent in several languages, Tozen presently resides in Sweden and established
seven years ago the school of Unborn Mind Zen, a virtual sangha of genuine
spirituality. Tozen's aim in the formation of this school is to provide a safe haven
for some few good dharma seeds to grow amidst the present darkness of this age;
according to Tozen, during this age the true buddhadharma will be as rare as a
flower atop a great snow-filled mountain and the false paths of Mara are as
dangerous as the vast sand dunes of the Sahara desert--beautiful and inviting at
first, but full of death traps once one becomes lost without a skillful guide.
