Bringing the Sacred to Life: The Daily Practice of Zen Ritual by John Daido Loor

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Zen practitioners often maintain a home altar, usually with a statue of the Buddha or a bodhisattva. They light incense and candles before it, bow, and chant, both morning and night. This title demystifies the details of the Zen home liturgy.

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Zen rituals-such as chanting, bowing, lighting incense before the Buddha statue-are ways of recognizing the sacredness in all of life. A ritual is simply a deliberate and focused moment that symbolizes the care with which we should be approaching all of life, and practicing the Zen liturgy is a way of cultivating this quality of attention in order to bring it to everything we do. Here, John Daido Loori demystifies the details of the Zen rituals and highlights their deeper meaning and purpose. We humans are all creatures of ritual, he teaches, whether we recognize it or not. Even if we don't make ritual part of some religious observance, we still fall into ritual behavior, whether it be our daily grooming sequence or the way we have our morning coffee and paper. We run through our personal rituals unconsciously most of the time, but there is great value to introducing meaningful symbolic rituals into our lives and to performing them deliberately and mindfully-because the way we do ritual affects the way we live the rest of our lives. The book includes instructions for a simple Zen home liturgy, as it is practiced by students of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen.

Author Biography

John Daido Loori (1931-2009) was one of the West's leading Zen masters. He was the founder and spiritual leader of the Mountains and Rivers Order and abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery. His work has been most noted for its unique adaptation of traditional Asian Buddhism into an American context, particularly with regard to the arts, the environment, social action, and the use of modern media as a vehicle of spiritual training and social change. Loori was an award-winning photographer and videographer. His art and wildlife photography formed the core of a unique teaching program that integrated art and wilderness training by cultivating a deep appreciation of the relationship of Zen to our natural environment. He was a dharma heir of the influential Japanese Zen master Taizan Maezumi Roshi and he authored many books.

Details ISBN1590305337 Author John Daido Loori Short Title BRINGING THE SACRED TO LIFE Language English ISBN-10 1590305337 ISBN-13 9781590305331 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Residence US Affiliation Resident Teacher and Spiritual LeaderZen Mountain Monastery Subtitle The Daily Practice of Zen Ritual DOI 10.1604/9781590305331 Series Dharma Communications Imprint Dharma Communications Books Place of Publication Boston Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2008-03-11 NZ Release Date 2008-03-11 US Release Date 2008-03-11 UK Release Date 2008-03-11 Pages 128 Publisher Dharma Communications Books Publication Date 2008-03-11 DEWEY 294.3927 Illustrations 10 HALFTONES AND AUTHOR'S PHOTOGRAPHS Audience General We've got this

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