Lost Coin Zen

This photo of an inscription and calligraphy is inside a book called “The Flight of Dragons.” John Daido Loori Roshi gave it to me in 1986.   I had been his student for 6 years at this time.  The recent death of Daido the Old Dragon, reminded me to look for it.  The lore of the [...]

It was everything really The sound of the snow as I shifted from foot to foot. The air sharp, thin and cold The white pines long arms reaching skyward Needles turning in the wind. The chanting. Fire in the stone pit The smell of char. The burned paper notes of remembrance float Around me In [...]

This second part of Caryn Shudo Silberberg’s Zen art exhibit is another example of objective art.  It portrays the relative, daily life in all it’s radiance.  The relative, like the absolute is shown in it’s true ungraspable nature. – Doen “Within darkness there is light But do not look for that light” from the Identity [...]

This photographic show by Caryn Shudo Silberberg is the first part of a poem in images about the relationship of the ordinary and the sacred.  It is the result of long training in Zen as well as the photographic tradition that runs through John Daido Loori Roshi and Minor White to us. – Doen “Within [...]