Posted February 28th, 2010 by Daniel Doen Silberberg
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 Dragon is part of the ancient heritage of both the East and West. This lore was passed directly to me by Daido Roshi and is now part of the lore of Lost Coin. The dragon referred to here is the one that fills heaven and earth, past and present. Its gigantic body reaches in all directions. Its flight dims the sun and darkens the stars. It’s eye is the awakened eye – your eye.
Doen
For Doen
The word Dragon itself
Means “Seeing”
You must never Meet a Dragon’s
Gaze or you will be Powerless.
When you see as the Dragon’s Eye
You are empowered.
Remember the Dragon Speaks
In Riddles and Koans.
It Knows as Much about you
As you know yourself.
Happy Birthday
Daido
Tremper Mountain
March 15, 1986
Tags: dragon, john daido loori
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
Tags: Caryn Silberberg, daido roshi, john daido loori, Zen Mountain Monastery
Posted September 10th, 2009 by Daniel Doen Silberberg
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 of the Relative and the Absolute
Tags: gurdjieff, john daido loori, minor white, objective art, photography, relative, zen art
Posted June 7th, 2009 by admin
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 light there is darkness
But do not try to understand that darkness”
from the Identity of the Relative and the Absolute
Please click on each image to view.
Tags: arts, john daido loori, minor white, photography, zen
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