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The name, "No-Rank Zen Temple," comes from a saying by Rinzai Gigen Zenji, the founding ancestor of our lineage. He says, "There is one true person of no rank, always coming out and going in through the gates of your face. Beginners, if you have not witnessed that, look! Look!" 

This is the essence of Zen practice, to sit, to look and to see that true person. It is in honor of this that our Zen group is named.