The life and spiritual place of Oda Sessô Rôshi, a Japanese Zen master, is the main topic of this article. The reader is given an account of how this man from an early age became interested in Zen, and then later went to a mountain temple to practice. This article provides a description of some of the work that Oda Sessô Rôshi did in his practice and with his students. Some of this work included his use of words in Zen koans to help people in their practice. According to Schlogel he was a very important Zen master. And after his death in 1966 it was said of him “true teacher that he was, living he had shown how to live, dying he showed how to die…”