Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf : Zen Poems of Ryokan (1993)
“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Book No-Thing-ness
“This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze
But is the echo of some voice beloved”
Introductory poem.
Poems (1869)
Context: This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze
But is the echo of some voice beloved:
Its pines have human tones; its billows wear
The color and the sparkle of dear eyes.
Its flowers are sweet with touch of tender hands
That once clasped ours. All things are beautiful
Because of something lovelier than themselves,
Which breathes within them, and will never die. —
Haunted,—but not with any spectral gloom;
Earth is suffused, inhabited by heaven.
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 28
[describing the implications of Ehrenzweig’s theory] p. 95, note
Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974)
“A thing which fades
With no outward sign—
Is the flower
Of the heart of man
In this world!”
trans. Arthur Waley, p. 78
Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955)
As quoted in Messenger Of The Heart: The Book Of Angelus Silesius, With Observations by Frederick Franck (2005), p. 36
Title track, In The Falling Dark (See also: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 62-63) Just Listen.. http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=lYAFzVTLIQs
In the Falling Dark (1976)
