One Mind ~ Bassui Tokusho Zenji 抜隊 得勝 ~ Zen Buddhism

Bassui Tokushō (1327–1387) was a Rinzai Zen Master born in
modern-day Kanagawa Prefecture who had trained with Sōtō and
Rinzai Zen-masters. Bassui was unhappy with the state of Zen
practice in Japan during his time, so he set out in life with the
mission of revitalizing it. The problems he saw were really two
sides of the same coin. That is, he saw both too much attachment
by some monks and masters to ritual and dogma as well as too much
attachment by some monks and masters to freedom and informality.
 Bassui was one of the "wild men" of Zen—along with such
masters as Hakuin, Basho and Ryokan—who existed outside the
institutional system. His spirited teaching of the Way as the
immediate, personal experience of buddha-nature has inspired Zen
students for hundreds of years as well as Zen masters such as
Hakuin.


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