The Eight Gates of Zen offers a matrix of opportunity for returning to intimate contact with our stillness and clarity, and to reclaim our lives. 
The eight gates are zazen, direct study with the teacher, liturgy, ethical and moral precepts, art practice, body practice, academic study, and work practice. 
This book emerges out of fourteen years of disciplined and vigorous Zen training at one of the most actice Zen Buddhist monasteries in this country. It reaches back to the enlightenment experience of Shakyamuni Buddha, and can be vital and relevant at this moment in time, amidst our global and personal challenges, if we engage it.

The Eight Gates of Zen: Spiritual Training an American Zen Monastery

Religion & Spirituality

Loori, John Daido

Buddhism

Dharma Communications

The Buddha atained enlightenmnet while practicing setated meditation, zazen. Zen practice constantly returns to that fundamental way of studying the self. This minibook provides insturction in zazen, explaining the differeent sitting positions and breathing techniques, as well as giving suggestions for establishing a practice at home. These guidelines are intended to help us cultivate the still point of body and mind, without which we never fully experience our lives.

The Still Point: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Meditation

The Buddhist Precepts form one of the most vital areas of spiritual practice. They are taken as an initiation into Buddhism and reflect the Buddha's teachings handed down from generation to generation. In this book, Zen Master John Daido Loori provides a modern interpretation of the Precepts and discusses the ethical significance of these vows as guidelines for living an enlightened life.

Invoking Reality

Religious Studies

The Ten Oxherding Pictures, accompanying ancient poems and a modern commentary by Abbot John Daido Loori, are a sketch of the Zen path of exhaustive study of the self and the realization of the ultimate nature of reality.

Path of Enlightenment

In Zen liturgy we manifest that which is known to us intuitively in forms that are visible and tangible. Yet, generally, there is very little explanation available about liturgy. This book addresses both the spirit and the forms of Zen liturgy, especially as they can function for lay practitioners. In exploring liturgy at home, we uncover the deepest truths which are the lives of each one of us, evoke them, and transform what we consider mundane activities into sacredness itself.

Celebrating Everyday Life: Zen Home Liturgy

This book arises from the premise that unless we love nature, we will not work to save it from exploitation and eventual destruction. The rich mixture of photographs, Zen poems and essays presented on these pages is intended to open our hearts to the wild and the wilderness, and to direct us to the ways in which we can heal this earth.

Making Love with Light

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

This book of exquisite photographs arises from the premise that unless we love nature, we will not work to save it from exploitation and eventual destruction. The rich mixture of photographs, Zen poems, and essays presented on these pages is intended to open our hearts to the wild and the wilderness, and to direct us to the ways in which we can heal the earth. The Zen master John Daido Loori, who is widely known for his efforts to make creative expression an integral part of spiritual practice, here inaugurates a new art form: Zen photography. Itâ€™s a modern continuation of an ancient tradition that looks to art as an expression of the enlightened mind. The camera thus becomes a contemporary version of the Zen brush, as Loori captures moments of exceptional, unrepeatable beauty. Each image is a seed for contemplation.

Making Love With Light: Contemplating Nature With Words and Photographs

In Zen liturgy we manifest that which is known to us intuitively as a tangible reality. This book is a collection of chants used during services and ceremonies at Zen Mountain Monastery. A chapter by Abbot John Daido Loori anchors the book and presents an introduction to this powerful practice.

Zen Mountain Monastery Liturgy Manual

One of the few commentaries on Zen koans by an American Zen master. Twenty-one chapters centered on koans from classic collections, western literary sources, and modern encounters, the talks in this book take up different subjects such as intimacy, illness and healing, the perils of the spiritual path, among others. Together, these discourses show the importance and relevance of the Zen koan as a powerful tool of spiritual study not limited to intellectual comprehension.

Two Arrows Meeting in Midair: The Zen Koan

John Daido Loori

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The Eight Gates of Zen: Spiritual Training an American Zen Monastery

The Still Point: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Meditation

Invoking Reality

Path of Enlightenment

Celebrating Everyday Life: Zen Home Liturgy

Making Love with Light

Making Love With Light: Contemplating Nature With Words and Photographs

Zen Mountain Monastery Liturgy Manual

Zen Mountain Monastery Liturgy Manual

Two Arrows Meeting in Midair: The Zen Koan