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Alan Watts, Zen and the Beat Way. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle, 1997.
Jack Kerouac • The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
I do not value chiefly a man’s uprightness and benevolence, which are, as it were, his stem and leaves. Those plants of whose greenness withered we make herb tea for the sick serve but a humble use, and are most employed by quacks. I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Dogen founded the Soto sect of Zen Buddhism in 1227 after experiencing enlightenment in the Chinese monastery on Mount Tiantong in 1225. On returning to Japan,
Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence
A straw hat, a stick, a box of matches and some of his own poetry. What more does man require?.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The last thing I wanted to do was think.
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
As in the tea ceremony, the way of elegance in haiku involves highly focused attention to detail as revealed through Zen practice. This constantly attentive state, and the discipline of writing, becomes for the poet a means of self-cultivation and a source of enlightenment.