Dear friends
I’m just sending this out to those of you who might have known of the work and teachings of John Daido Loori, the Zen teacher, who passed away very recently.

It’s amazing to me how much we can receive from someone without ever having met them in person.

John Daido was a great lover of nature, and of creativity, and he taught me much, especially about listening to the invisible transmission of rivers and mountains. He asked us all to love the earth, to care for this beautiful earth, with a sense of indivisibility.

In Buddhist scriptures they speak of prajna paramita, the perfection of wisdom, as crossing the river: “Go, go, hurry, cross over to the other side.”

John Daido invited us to understand that crossing over in many ways: “We can understand the other shore as being none other than this shore. We can also understand that the other shore crosses over to us...”

In our work in Radiant Mind and The NDTT, it feels like the crossing over has happened, and that it continues to happen, and that the other shore crosses over to us in each moment....all of the above!

with love
Shayla