{"id":263,"date":"2009-10-09T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/10\/a-little-about-how-daidos-life-touched-mine\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T18:43:00","slug":"a-little-about-how-daidos-life-touched-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/10\/a-little-about-how-daidos-life-touched-mine.html","title":{"rendered":"A Little About How Daido’s Life Touched Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Daido Loori, founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order, died this morning at about 7:30. The above photo is borrowed from Bernie Glassman\u2019s<\/a> remembrance<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I first met Daido in about 1999 when he accepted an invitation to teach at the Zen Center I was running. Years before I had become acquainted with his taped teachings. In those days I had a consultant-type job with the schools and listened to maybe a hundred of his talks during a several year period as I drove from meeting to meeting.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I felt (and still feel) a deep resonance with his zeal to offer authentic Zen and his passion for Dogen\u2019s subtle dharma<\/a>, as he called it. And especially I resonated with his fierceness. In a Zen scene where such things had become unpopular, Daido roared (this from memory):<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKerouc said Zen is \u2018I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t care and it doesn\u2019t matter.\u2019 Bullshit! Knowing is vital. I care intensely. And everything matters!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So I went to the airport to meet a tough, cigarette smoking, ex-sailor. In those days you could wait at the gate and I vividly remember my first view of his relaxed pace as he lumbered up the gate from the plane, wearing an old Army jacket (or some such thing) and a leather cowboyish hat.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What struck me most, though, when I shook his hand and looked him in the eye was his incredibly delicate and palpable kindness.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He, like Katagiri Roshi, was a man alone in the Universe.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A couple months later I began a series of sesshin with him at Mt. Tremper. In dokusan he\u2019d take the teacher seat completely, of course, kindly rejecting many of my koan presentations, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t reach it!\u201d he\u2019d say. And then we\u2019d talk about Dogen or Katagiri or Maezumi or working with students or Zen organizations. After sesshin we\u2019d enjoy a cigar together and he\u2019d complain about his students and I\u2019d complain about mine.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After I completed the work with him that I set out to do, he let me know that he was always available for a good schmooze, although in this moment I regret that I didn\u2019t call him more often.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The last time I saw him was at the Soto Zen Buddhist<\/a> Association meeting at Mt. Tremper a couple years ago. Daido had fallen in love again and was so very beautifully happy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Meeting him in dokusan and doing koan training with him was one of the most important experiences of my life. And today I feel quite alone.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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