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In introduction to the creative spirit as it applies within Zen tradition shares personal anecdotes about the author's own experiences, suggesting exercises and visual tools to help readers cultivate spiritual creativity. By the author of Riding the Ox Home and The Eight Gates of Zen.

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" A well-written, wise, insightful book on creativity and Zen, a subject made all the more intriguing and persuasive by Daido Loori' s long experience as a student and teacher in both. The text is enhanced by fine Zen dialogues and stories, poems, koan, photographs, and illustrations as well as apt, stimulating quotations from many writers and Zen teachers. An altogether excellent book."
-- PETER MATTHIESSEN (Muryo Roshi)
" Zen is the immediate suchness and spontaneity of life, a creativity that is art itself. John Daido Loori, one of the truly great American Zen masters, has given us a simple yet profound guide to art, creativity, and life itself-- for they all spring from the same source, the same ordinary magic of this and every moment. "The Zen of Creativity" is a rare, elegant, beautiful book, highly recommended."
-- KEN WILBER, author of "A Brief History of Everything
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A well-written, wise, insightful book on creativity and Zen, a subject made all the more intriguing and persuasive by Daido Loori s long experience as a student and teacher in both. The text is enhanced by fine Zen dialogues and stories, poems, koan, photographs, and illustrations as well as apt, stimulating quotations from many writers and Zen teachers. An altogether excellent book.
PETER MATTHIESSEN (Muryo Roshi)
Zen is the immediate suchness and spontaneity of life, a creativity that is art itself. John Daido Loori, one of the truly great American Zen masters, has given us a simple yet profound guide to art, creativity, and life itself for they all spring from the same source, the same ordinary magic of this and every moment. "The Zen of Creativity" is a rare, elegant, beautiful book, highly recommended.
KEN WILBER, author of "A Brief History of Everything
"

"From the Hardcover edition.""

"A well-written, wise, insightful book on creativity and Zen, a subject made all the more intriguing and persuasive by Daido Loori's long experience as a student and teacher in both. The text is enhanced by fine Zen dialogues and stories, poems, koan, photographs, and illustrations as well as apt, stimulating quotations from many writers and Zen teachers. An altogether excellent book."
--PETER MATTHIESSEN (Muryo Roshi)

"Zen is the immediate suchness and spontaneity of life, a creativity that is art itself. John Daido Loori, one of the truly great American Zen masters, has given us a simple yet profound guide to art, creativity, and life itself--for they all spring from the same source, the same ordinary magic of this and every moment. The Zen of Creativity is a rare, elegant, beautiful book, highly recommended."
--KEN WILBER, author of A Brief History of Everything

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JOHN DAIDO LOORI is the founder and abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York. He grew up in a working-class New Jersey family, joined the navy, and later became a scientist and professional photographer before shaving his head, donning monk’s robes, and embarking on the path of Zen. The monastery he founded in 1980 is one of the preeminent Zen training centers in the West, widely noted for its unique way of integrating art and Zen practice. Loori is the author of fourteen books on Zen. He has been interviewed and profiled by NBC, CBS, CNN, Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times about the growing role of Buddhism in the United States. His photography has been exhibited in more than thirty one-person shows and has been published in leading photography magazines.

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  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 0345462017
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