Tricycle Daily Dharma February 16, 2014
Meditation and Poetry
Traditions
of deliberate attention to consciousness, and of making poems, are as
old as humankind. Meditation looks inward, poetry holds forth. One is
private, the other is out in the world. One enters the moment, the other
shares it. But in practice it is never entirely clear which is doing
which. In any case, we do know that in spite of the contemporary public
perception of meditation and poetry as special, exotic, and difficult,
they are both as old and as common as grass. The one goes back to
essential moments of stillness and deep inwardness, and the other to the
fundamental impulse of expression and presentation.
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- Gary Snyder, “Just One Breath”
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