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Poetry here means poems the texts quote: Daikan Eno's poem that there is no bright mirror to polish, Minister Hyo's verse on sitting in zazen when official business allows, T. S. Eliot's Burnt Norton, whose lines on time are close to Nagarjuna, and Blake's world in a grain of sand.
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There is no bright mirror, so what is the use of cleaning and polishing?
Enlightenment as a Normal State July 2009 — Dibbavana
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- Enlightenment as a Normal State ●●● July 2009 — DibbavanaDaikan Eno's mirror poem
There is no bright mirror, so what is the use of cleaning and polishing?
- Nishijima’s Four Main Points ●●● September 2015 — Banský Studenecarriving where we started
the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time
- Fukan-zazengi ●●● ShobogenzoDaikan Eno's mirror poem
Jinshu compared Buddhist practice to making a mirror clean. Master Daikan Eno suggested that there is originally no impurity in the first place.
- Bendōwa ●●● ShobogenzoMinister Hyo's poem
When official business allows, I like to sit in zazen
- How To Pursue the Truth ●●● Shobogenzo · BendōwaMinister Hyo's poem
I love to practice Zazen when my work allows me to
- The Concept of Now in Dogen’s Philosophy ●●● Shobogenzo · UjiBurnt Norton
which he alludes to in the opening stanza of the first of his Four Quartets, “Burnt Norton”
- Genjo-koan 4: Realisation as Wholeness ●●● Summer 2002 — Genjo-koanworld in a grain of sand
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower
- Uji 1: Time Is the Present ●●● Winter 2004 — UjiBurnt Norton
In “Burnt Norton”, where he says – at the still point of the turning world
- Uji 2: An Alternative to Linear Time ●●● Winter 2004 — Ujiworld in a grain of sand
to try and capture what Blake meant, when he was talking about eternity in a grain of sand
- Uji 1: The Depth of the Present ●●● Summer 2007 — UjiBurnt Norton
Now, those verses are remarkably similar to Nagarjuna. And it’s known that T. S. Eliot had an interest in Buddhism.
- Kuge 2: Coolness in the Centre of Fire ●●● Winter 2007 — Kugestill point of a turning world
The still point of a turning world.
- Old Writings and Our Own Life ●●● September 2013 — Banský Studenecpoems from the gap between thoughts
his poems, appear in the gap between two thoughts, as he said
- Escape and Refuge in Zazen ●●● May 2014 — Banský Studenecarriving where we started
the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time
Keywords
Images and stories (6) arriving where we started2 Daikan Eno's mirror poem2 Minister Hyo's poem2 world in a grain of sand2 poems from the gap between thoughts still point of a turning world
Works (1) Burnt Norton3