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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loori tells the reader just the way it is,
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This review is from: The Eight Gates of Zen: Spiritual Training an American Zen Monastery (Paperback)
John Daido Loori lays the zen life and barrier gates out before the reader to examine and learn. The writing flows from page to page carrying the reader through the highs and lows of reality, the possibilities and expectations of just sitting. Definitely the book to have when you want to know how and why to sit zazen.
11 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Whatever happened to 'Beginner's Mind'?,
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This review is from: The Eight Gates of Zen: Spiritual Training an American Zen Monastery (Paperback)
dang, this is one book to discourage anyone from ever starting zen if i've ever seen one, Daido Roshi no doubt knows what he's talking about, but when he lays out a whole zen catechism of 100s of koans and various elitist sounding artsy practices required for entry into Buddha's country club, it sounds like a graduate school curriculum or something. I think this book is maybe a reaction to the laxity and scandals of 1st generation American zen. Now the 2nd generation teachers are reverting back to good-old fundamentalism and rigor to keep out the riff-raff. Guess we can see the age-old story of religious evolution happening before our very eyes here. Anyway, I sure missed the anti-elitist open-hearted Spirit of Suzuki Roshi's 'Zen Mind Beginner's Mind' while I was trying to read 'Eight Gates'. fyi, check out some critiques and affirmations of American Zen at: |
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The Eight Gates of Zen: Spiritual Training an American Zen Monastery by John Daido Loori (Paperback - Dec. 1992)
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