Art is frozen Zen.
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The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.Reginald Horace Blyth
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest nor its suggestiveness, through which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself.
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 assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, all of whom had a prior interest in Zen.
Reginald Horace Blyth
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.
Reginald Horace Blyth
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
Reginald Horace Blyth
Regarding R. H. Blyth For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth....
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