Poem for Daido

Posted February 19th, 2010 by Tawni Anderson

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 the wind:
they are passing through the needled branches of the white pines,

black moths
set free.
In memoriam, John Daido Roshi
2009

~Caryn Silberberg

Photo by Ba Rea

Tags: Caryn Silberberg, daido roshi, john daido loori, Zen Mountain Monastery

John Daido Loori, Roshi

Posted October 10th, 2009 by Daniel Doen Silberberg

Fare thee well old teacher, sage of Tremper Mountain, friend.

Goodbye artist, entrepreneur, scientist, innovator, father, husband, grandfather, lineage founder, stones of Mountains and Rivers Order.

“Now We Know You”

Shudo and Doen

photo by Caryn Shudo Silberberg

Tags: Daido, daido roshi, John Loori, Mountains and Rivers Order, zen

Lost Coin Lineage

Posted May 11th, 2009 by Daniel Doen Silberberg

Doen Sensei discusses the differences between learning from a living lineage and learning from a book.

Tags: daido roshi, genpo roshi, learning, lineage, minor white