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Authors: Peter Harris (Editor), Everyman's Library
ISBN-13: 9780375405525, ISBN-10: 0375405526
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: March 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Peter Harris

Peter Harris is the founder of the Asian Studies Institute at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, and the editor of the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets anthology Zen Poems.

Book Synopsis

The appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal, and Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality, and beauty everywhere. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan, and Korea includes the work of Zen practitioners and monks as well as scholars, artists, travelers, and recluses, ranging from Wang Wei, Hanshan, and Yang Wanli, to Shinkei, Basho, and Ryokan.

	Foreword	17
	Written on the Lake on my Way Back to the Retreat at Stone Cliff	25
	On Climbing the Highest Peak of Stone Gate	26
	Setting out at Night from the Pavilion at Stone Pass	27
	On Founding a Retreat for the Sangha at Stone Cliff	28
	Bodhi originally has no tree	29
	If evil flowers bloom in the mind-ground	30
	Deluded, a Buddha is a sentient being	31
	Enjoying the Cool	32
	An Autumn Evening in the Hills	33
	Seeking a Night's Lodging at the Monastery of the Chan Master Daoyi	34
	The Wang River Collection	35
	In my Lodge at Wang Chuan after a Long Rain	40
	Light Lines on a Flat Rock	41
	Green Creek	42
	Suffering from the Heat	43
	Living in the Hills: Impromptu Verses	44
	Stone Gate Monastery on Mount Lantian	45
	Visiting the Forest Pavilion of the Recluse, Cui Xingzong, with Lu Xiang	46
	Farm House on the Wei Stream	47
	In the Hills	48
	Weeping for Ying Yao	49
	Zhongnan Retreat	50
	Lines	51
	On Missing my Way to the Monastery of Heaped Fragrance	52
	Sitting Alone on an Autumn Night	53
	On Parting with the Buddhist Pilgrim Lingche	54
	Rejoicing that the Zen Master Bao Has Arrived from Dragon Mountain	55
	A thousand clouds among a myriad streams	56
	When men see Han-shan	57
	When the men of the world look for this path amid the clouds	58
	Men ask the way to Cold Mountain	59
	Cold cliffs, more beautiful the deeper you enter	60
	Clambering up the Cold Mountain path	61
	As for me, I delight in the everyday Way	62
	So Han-shan writes you these words	63
	A telling analogy for life and death	64
	In the third month when the silkworms were still small	65
	Why am I always so depressed?	66
	Parrots dwell in the west country	67
	I sit and gaze on this highest peak of all	68
	Yesterday I saw the trees by the river's edge	69
	Man, living in the dust	70
	My mind is like the autumn moon	71
	You can see the moon's brightness	72
	Far, faraway, steep mountain paths	73
	I laugh at my failing strength in old age	74
	To what shall I compare the world?	75
	Dhyana's Hall	76
	At Wang Changling's Retreat	77
	Looking for Lu Hongjian but Failing to Find Him	78
	Idle Droning	79
	A Flower?	80
	Realizing the Futility of Life	81
	On his Baldness	82
	Night Snow	83
	The Temple	84
	At Yiye Temple	95
	Meditation Hall	96
	An Early Morning Visit to the Buddhist Priest Chao to Read the Chan Scriptures	97
	Looking for the Recluse and Not Finding Him Home	98
	Southern Study	99
	To an Old Monk on Mount Tian Tai	100
	Written on Master Hengzhao's Wall	101
	Grieving for Zen Master Jianzhang	102
	On the Winter Festival I Visited Lone Mountain and the Two Monks Huijin and Huisi	103
	Written on Abbot Lun's Wall at Mount Jiao	105
	The murmuring brook is the Buddha's long, broad tongue	106
	The Lyre	107
	Flower Shadows	108
	Spring Night	109
	Days of Rain; the Rivers Have Overflowed	110
	Begonias	111
	Passing Over Dayu Peak	112
	The Southern Room over the River	113
	Recalling the Old Days at Mianchi	114
	Moving to Lin'gao Pavilion	115
	Enjoying the Peonies at the Temple of Good Fortune	116
	Presented to Tanxiu	117
	The Weaker the Wine	119
	Sending Off Chan Master Xiaoben to Fayun	121
	Abbot Zhan's Cell	122
	Written on the Wall at Xilin Temple	123
	Books	124
	Every single thing	125
	The winds of spring	126
	Trailing on the wind	127
	To "Eyes' Fascination"	128
	The Boatman's Flute	129
	Making Fire in the Boat on a Snowy Day	130
	Red Peonies in a Jar	131
	The Cold Lantern	132
	Passing the Pavilion on Shenzhu Bridge	133
	Spending the Night at the River-Port Pool Rock	134
	Rising Early	135
	The Morning Ferry	136
	Staying Overnight at Xiaosha Stream	137
	During an Intercalary August After the "Arrival of Autumn" It Was Hot in the Evening and I Went to Be Cool in the Prefectural Garden	138
	The Twin Pagodas of Orchid Stream	139
	Don't Read Books!	140
	On Seeing the First Bloom of the Lotus	141
	Watching the Moon Go Down	142
	Bright bright!	143
	Coming, going, the waterfowl	144
	Depending on Neither Words nor Letters	145
	Worship Service	146
	Impromptu Poem	147
	Winter Moon	148
	Winter Moon (2)	149
	Summer Night	150
	Refreshing, the wind against the waterfall	151
	Cold Night: Impromptu	152
	Autumn's Whiteness	153
	In heaven and earth, no ground to plant my single staff	154
	Staying at Luyuan Temple: Wang Wei's Former Residence	155
	Miscellaneous Poems from My Lair	156
	Rhyming with the Priest Caoan's Poem "Living in the Mountains"	158
	In the Mountain	159
	At Tomo Harbor	160
	Imitating the Old Style	161
	In China: Sick with Malarial Fever	162
	Herding the Ox in the Himalayas	164
	At Deathbed	165
	To Rhyme with a Poem by My Old Teacher: Sick in Winter	166
	For all these years, my certain Zen	167
	Sweeping Leaves	168
	In the Mountains	169
	Inscription over his Door	170
	Camellia Blossoms	171
	Hymn for Offering Incense Upon the Buddha's Attainment of the Path	172
	Inscribed on the Pavilion of Moon on the Water: Two Poems	173
	Improvisation Upon Leaving the Nanzenji to Go Into Retirement	174
	Poem Rhyming with Monk San's "Trip to Kanazawa - Recalling Old Times"	175
	Rohatsu: To Show to My Disciples	176
	Two Scenes Inscribed on a Screen	177
	In Response to a Request to "Explain the Secret Teaching"	178
	The Painted Fan	179
	An Old Temple	180
	The void has collapsed upon the earth	181
	Dwelling in the Mountains: A Poem Rhyming with Chanyue's	182
	Like dew that vanishes	183
	Contemplating the Law, reading sutras, trying to be a real master	184
	Sunset in a Fishing Village	185
	Foothills beneath a deepening pall of snow	186
	Such a mind, is, indeed, that of a Buddha!	187
	As darkness falls	188
	Without understanding	189
	Cuckoo	190
	Invisible as the wind to the eye	192
	Soul mad with longing	193
	"If it be so, so be it!"	194
	A temporary lodging	195
	Spring	196
	Summer	197
	Autumn	198
	Winter	199
	They come about on their own	200
	Saying Goodbye to the Monk Wunian	201
	On Receiving My Letter of Termination	202
	Writing Down What I See	203
	On dead branches crows remain perched at autumn's end	204
	The sea dark	205
	On the mountain road the sun arose	206
	Coming this mountain way	207
	The whitebait opens its black eyes	208
	Asleep within the grave	209
	Priceless is one's incantation	210
	Past, present, future	211
	You no sooner attain the great void	212
	My house is buried in the deepest recess of the forest	213
	Green spring, start of the second month	214
	I am imprisoned in my cottage among the solitary hills	215
	Begging food, I went to the city	216
	At an old temple	217
	In the still night by the vacant window	218
	My beloved friend	219
	Good manners and sweet habits have faded, year after year	220
	Our life in this world	224
	You mustn't suppose	225
	Since I began to climb this steep path of discipline	226
	Foothills far below	227
	If anyone asks	229
	The wind is gentle	230
	Here are the ruins of the cottage where I once hid myself	231
	All my life too lazy to try and get ahead	232
	On the Death of Yukinori	233
	I have a walking stick	235
	From Spring to Autumn of 1827 Some Things Came to me Which I Wrote Down Haphazardly	236
	A Renunciation of Wit	237
	Biographies	239
	Acknowledgments	251

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