Shambhala Sun - Zen's Radical Conservative: John Daido Loori Roshi

"When asked how he came to Zen, Daido Roshi pauses, takes off his sage-green fedora and rubs his clean-shaven head. There's a blue, sun-faded anchor tattoo on each of his forearms-remnants of his navy days-and he moves his fingers across one of them as if tracing the map of his past. 'That's easy,' he says in a deep, resonant voice, 'photography.'"