Serving the Spirit

February 20 · Teachings · calling, commitment, conversion, Daido Roshi, Guardian Council, lay practitioners, monasticism, monastics, mondo, mystery, religion, religious calling, responsibility, spiritual calling, vocation, Winter / Spring 2019

Mondo by John Daido Loori, Roshi
originally printed in Mountain Record in the issue Spiritual Calling (2008)

In the Zen Buddhist tradition there are several ways of engaging with a teacher and one of them is mondo, an informal question and answer session on some aspect of the Dharma. This mondo was held with John Daido Loori, Roshi, the founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order, at Zen Mountain Monastery in 2008.