reads ?Zen points directly to the human heart, see into your nature and become Buddha?. It was created by Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768)]] A Zen teacher is a Zen Buddhist monk who teaches Zen. In Japanese, the term used is , meaning "old" (ro) and "teacher" (shi). Roshi can be used as a term of respect, as in the Rinzai school; as a simple reference to actual age, as in the Soto school; or it can mean a teacher who has transmitted knowledge to, and thus "given birth" to, a new teacher. (See dharma transmission.) Alternatively, as was remarked by Soko Morinaga Roshi, "A roshi is anyone who calls himself by the term and can get other people to do the same." The Chinese term, l?oshi (simplified: ??; traditional:??) is used in modern Chinese in a much more limited sense, normally meaning simply an ordinary teacher. The term shifu (simplified:??; traditional:??), sometimes translated as "master", is used to refer to Bud

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