A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. Reginald Horace Blyth More Quotes by Reginald Horace Blyth More Quotes From Reginald Horace Blyth We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately, living in this world means choosing, choosing to walk, and the way we choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself. Nothing can disguise it. The walk of an ordinary man and of an enlightened man are as different as that of a snake and a giraffe. Reginald Horace Blyth snakesmenmean We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust. Reginald Horace Blyth hatedustdarkness Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one. Reginald Horace Blyth perfectdoemean Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one. Reginald Horace Blyth incompleteenlightenment Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves. Reginald Horace Blyth often-iscaremind It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year; nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself. Reginald Horace Blyth natureselfart Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, all of whom had a prior interest in Zen. Reginald Horace Blyth expressionbookschool There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy. Reginald Horace Blyth energymoonbeautiful Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics. Reginald Horace Blyth topicsbookfirsts Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something that we see, but the seeing and the something are one; without the seeing there is no something, no something, no seeing. There is neither discovery nor creation: only the perfect, indivisible experience. Reginald Horace Blyth natureperfectdiscovery Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks. Reginald Horace Blyth masksocialgames Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen. Reginald Horace Blyth poetry-is Things have done their part; it is for us to do ours. Reginald Horace Blyth done Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . . Reginald Horace Blyth maymentwo
