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Jiao shao - Chinese Ancient...
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Gary Snyder and the end of the Vietnam War →
from biography of Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon papers that changed public opinion on the Vietnam War.
Though they talked about many things during their first meeting, perhaps what most impressed Ellsberg was that in Snyder he saw someone who “was in charge of his own life … a model of the way a life could be lived.”
April 2012
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Watchteaadventures:
Hand firing Dragonwell, 100gs at a time
March 2012
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February 2012
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“Throw out your timer and opt for brewing with your breath… you won’t be...”
– http://bit.ly/uw7eoS (via chanteas)
At night, deep in the mountains...
zenmind-nomind:
At night, deep in the mountains, I sit in meditation The affairs of men never reach here; Everything is quiet and empty, All the incense has been swallowed up By the endless night. My robe has become a garment of dew. Unable to sleep I walk out into the woods— Suddenly, above the highest peak, The full moon appears. - Hakuin (1686-1768)
‘Haiku Moon’ brushwork...
January 2012
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In the chapter titled Inmo in Shobogenzo Dogen said it like this: “We ourselves are tools that it (inmo, the ineffable) possesses within this universe in ten directions. How do we know that it exists? We know it is so because the body and the mind both appear in the universe, yet neither is our self. The body, already, is not ‘I’. Its life moves on through days and months, and...
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On translating from Chinese
I just found three translations of the poem “Night on the Chien-te River” [宿建德江] by Meng Haoran [孟浩然] on the same page at Poets.org. The difference between the three is quite striking.
First here is the original poem with pinyin for pronunciation and a simple one word per character translation:
yí zhōu bó yān zhǔ
移 舟 泊 烟 渚 ，
shift boat berth smoke isle
rì mù kè chóu xīn
日 暮 客 愁 新...
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I’ve always felt that this idea of treating...
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