Tao and words
The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.
Thomas Merton
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Mon cher Degas
On the side of our refrigerator, I have a quotation from the 19th century poet Stéphane Mallarmé, speaking to his friend, the painter Edgar Degas, who was complaining about the difficulty of converting his ideas for poems into actual poems: … Continue reading
Basho’s frog
In A Zen Wave, Robert Aitken calls it “probably the most famous poem in Japan.” The old pond; a frog jumps in – the sound of the water. It must surely be the most-translated of Basho’s haiku, or anyone else’s … Continue reading