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Article: Coposing Zen haiku: training to make sense.
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- ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
- Article date:
- December 22, 1995
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I've titled this paper "Composing Zen Haiku: Training to Make Sense" because I think the practice of composing haiku requires a discipline in a person's thinking and emoting patterns similar to, and in some ways as rigorous as, the general semantics system for training people to make sense. The kind of haiku I'll use as a model was developed by a Japanese poet named Basho, who lived from 1644 to 1694. As a Zen-trained person, he evolved what I call "Zen haiku."
I'll describe how such haiku are written and give some guidelines you can follow to create your own. I'll point out how this practice can help you become aware of the way you make meanings inside your ...
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... ... accomplish. - Natalie Soto POETRY THE MOON IN THE PINES: ZEN HAIKU Selected and Translated by Jonathan Clements (Viking, $19 ... who says / He tires of his child / There are no flowers.'' Zen haiku seeks the essence of the moment, trying to unite the reader ...
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