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John Daido Loori

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John Daido Loori


Born
in Jersey City, New Jersey, The United States
June 14, 1931

Died
October 09, 2009

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John Daido Loori was a Zen Buddhist rōshi who served as the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery. He was the founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism and CEO of Dharma Communications.

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“If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it’s trust. When you learn to trust yourself implicitly, you no longer need to prove something through your art. You simply allow it to come out, to be as it is. This is when creating art becomes effortless. It happens just as you grow your hair. It grows.”
John Daido Loori, The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life

“Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures, no reliance on words and letters, a direct pointing to the human mind, the realization of Buddhahood.”
John Daido Loori, The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training

“There is no gap between us and the process.”
John Daido Loori, The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

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