Tag: Bashō
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The road from grief to Zen

To help me in my seemingly endless grief I am revisiting the Zen literature of Japanese and Chinese writers and poets — Ryokan, Bashō, Buson, Issa.
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My own ‘space dancer!’

My Buddhist teacher is cloaked in mystery I have never met her — yes, I do know her gender — or heard her voice. We correspond via email, an annoyingly modern means that seems inappropriate for such an ancient form of enlightenment. But as she would say, and in fact did say: It is what it…
