Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something that we see, but the seeing and the something are one; without the seeing there is no something, no something, no seeing. There is neither discovery nor creation: only the perfect, indivisible experience.
There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But since the Self is what there is and all that there i… - Reginald Horace Blyth
There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But since the Self is what there is and all that there i…
- Reginald Horace Blyth
Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the mome… - Reginald Horace Blyth
Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the mome…
I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible. - Reginald Horace Blyth
I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.
A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen. - Reginald Horace Blyth
A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or… - Reginald Horace Blyth
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or…
The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and future meet, which is the now. Whe… - Reginald Horace Blyth
The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and future meet, which is the now. Whe…
What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions. - Reginald Horace Blyth
What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity. - Reginald Horace Blyth
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumptio… - Reginald Horace Blyth
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumptio…
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