Fri, 12 Sep 2008
Daido Loori Remembered
Over on E-Sangha Adam says the Daido Loori is being treated for lung cancer. Just as I wrote this, I noticed a dead moth on my desk. It was fluttering around the light this morning and now it's dead. Impermanence.
I thought I would mention my brief encounters with Mr. Loori. Both were at KTD. Zen Mountain Monastery is just down the road a mile or two and when Daido Loori moved in, he made a courtesy visit to see Khenpo Karthar. I was sitting on a sofa in what's now the bookstore as he went in and recognized him from a picture on one of his books. He seemed slightly nervous going in, but quite happy going out. I haven't mentioned this story before because I thought people would take it as a criticism. Everyone knows that genuine Zen teachers are much too holy to ever be nervous. Well, the people who think these thoughts will probably find a thousand other things to criticize about Daido, so they can have this too. I also heard Daido Loori speak at a conference Will Roth organized on Buddhism and psychotherapy. He struck me as being a sharp guy, both in terms of intellect and practice.
