禅John Daido Loori

proverb

Koan and Creativity

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Text

Painting, calligraphy, theater — each can be a koan if you let the work cut you. The cut is not destruction; it is the doorway through which you stop being separate from the work.

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By John Daido Loori

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  • contentThe Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training

    John Daido Loori

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