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Tao-ch’uan says, “Looking for someone else isn’t as good as looking for yourself. My song goes: ‘Water drops turn into ice, we believe / green willows, fragrant plants, forms without end / spring flowers, autumn moon, things never stop / listen in quiet to the partridge cry.”
Red Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
He took haiku to a deeper level, espousing haikai no michi (the Way of Haiku)
Patricia Donegan • Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
Anyway, my point is that it’s really hard for people to live their lives alone.”
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
What does a camel love?
Andrew Sean Greer • Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1)
read the novel Memoirs of a Geisha –the Ichiriki ochaya is one of the places where much of the action is set.
Hector Garcia • Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony (Geek In...guides)
raison d’être
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Rikyu took the baton of artlessness from his predecessor, Ikkyu, when he introduced Korean craft pottery into his tea ceremony. The Korean potters, who might have made a hundred similar pots in a day, were probably totally devoid of any thought of artistic aspirations as they worked, and it was just this lack of intellect that proved so attractive
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