Is there a Truth greater than any particular tradition or way? Is it possible that a kind of guide rope was/is given to us that isn’t invented by us, that precedes human beings? I once asked this of John Daido Loori, the founder abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery. Tall and imposing in black robes, [...]
Archive for October, 2009
The Truth Behind The Truth
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Inhaling and Exhaling
Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“Give yourself permission to be yourself, and don’t be frightened by the unknown,” wrote John Daido Loori in The Zen of Creativity. The photographer, Zen master, and founder of Zen Mountain Monastery, who died on October 9, wrote in that book that he first had a glimpse of the spontaneity and naturalness that can shine [...]
Lascaux and Lost Knowledge
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2009 | 8 Comments »
A few months before his death, G.I. Gurdjieff drove with a group of students from Paris to a recently opened series of interconnected caves in Lascaux in southwestern France. His student J.G. Bennett told him about extraordinary Paleolithic paintings that had been discovered by accident in 1940, by four teenagers and a dog. In [...]
