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• Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

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  Games, Mask, Social

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1976). “Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth”

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• Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

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  Nature, World, Earth

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1984). “A History of Haiku: From the beginnings up to Issa”

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• El Zen es actividad sin mente, es decir, actividad con mente, y a menudo puede ser aconsejable hacer hincapié en la mente, y decir: Ocúpate de los pensamientos y las acciones se ocuparán de sí mismas.

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  Often Is, Mind, Care

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

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• Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something that we see, but the seeing and the something are one; without the seeing there is no something, no something, no seeing. There is neither discovery nor creation: only the perfect, indivisible experience.

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  Nature, Discovery, Perfect

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• We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.

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  Hate, Dust, Darkness

  Reginald Horace Blyth, British Haiku Society (1994). “The genius of Haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”

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• There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.

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  Beautiful, Moon, Energy

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1960). “Zen and Zen Classics”

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• Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.

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  Book, Topics, Firsts

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• Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . .

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  Men, Two, May

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• Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, all of whom had a prior interest in Zen.

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  Book, School, Expression

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• Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  La poesía es

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