This volume contains the final teachings of Zen Master Taisen Deshimaru from 1982. Sensing the end of his life, he leaves his students the essence of his teachings in these words, the spiritual experience of a whole lifetime. Dokan, the Ring of the Way, represents the path without beginning and without end. The constant repetition of the practice of Zazen, the experience of eternal change lived in the here and now. 'Dokan - daily Zazen.' is the master's call to his students not to waver in this practice - handed down since Buddha and passed on through the lineage of masters of the Way - and the mandate to his successors to continue to convey this practice to us, today, here.