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These magical photographs of ordinary landscapes - rocks, rivers, sand - all share a mysterious quality of presence, to the extent that they call into question the distinction we make between ourselves and the landscape, between sentient beings and non-sentient ones. The photographs become themselves a teaching on the interconnectedness of all things. Zen Master John Daido Loori is known for encouraging his students to express their understanding through art - as he himself has done for many years: He is a renowned nature photographer. In this book he combines a series of 61 colour photographs of astonishing beauty with his commentary on a text by the most famous of all Japanese Zen Masters, Eihei Dogen (1200-1253). The photos and Zen commentary together go together to make up a striking teaching on the wisdom of things as they are.

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Just as ancient Zen painters expressed the truth of reality with sparse strokes of the brush, Zen Master Loori captures the unfathomable mystery of our mind and love of the wilderness in extraordinary photographs of ordinary nature. --Kazuaki Tanahashi, author of Brush Mind <br> With consummate honesty, grace, and humor, John Daido Loori shows how art making and spiritual practice are inseparable. --Meredith Monk

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