If you miss the moment, you miss your life.

- John Daido Loori

To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

- John Daido Loori

No creature, large or small, ever fails to cover the ground upon which it stands.

- John Daido Loori

It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.

- John Daido Loori

serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of bein…

- John Daido Loori

The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a refl…

- John Daido Loori

To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become num…

- John Daido Loori

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

- John Daido Loori

just sitting does not involve reaching some understanding. It is the subtle activity of allowing all things to be completely at rest just as they are…

- John Daido Loori