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By Robert Aitken

Known to many because the learn of quiet stillness and introspection, Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself via really good flashes of perception and its terseness of expression. In River of Heaven those options and pillars lend themselves to an exploration of Haiku, essentially the most tender and interpretive poetic kinds on the earth. The haiku verse shape, with its inflexible constitution and natural description is a wonderful technique of learning Zen modes of inspiration simply because its seventeen syllables impose a dilemma that confines the poet to important adventure. In Haiku as in Buddhism, the silences are as expressive because the words.

In this quantity, American Senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken offers new perception into Haiku via poetic masters Basho, Issa, Buson, and Shiki. In offering subject matters from Haiku and from Zen literature, Aitken illuminates the connection among the 2. Readers are bound to locate this a useful and relaxing adventure for the extraordinary revelation it offers.

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