Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and… — Reginald Horace Blyth Poetry Copy Share Image
Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry… — Reginald Horace Blyth Another way Copy Share Image
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful… — Reginald Horace Blyth Acceptance Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Art Copy Share Image
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. — Reginald Horace Blyth Buddhism Copy Share Image
There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter… — Reginald Horace Blyth Beautiful Copy Share Image
We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust. — Reginald Horace Blyth Ashes Copy Share Image
I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible. — Reginald Horace Blyth Bible Copy Share Image
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed… — Reginald Horace Blyth Creeds Copy Share Image
The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated. — Reginald Horace Blyth Exaggerated Copy Share Image
There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as (play). But since the Self… — Reginald Horace Blyth Born Copy Share Image
The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and… — Reginald Horace Blyth Birth Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H.… — Reginald Horace Blyth Haiku Copy Share Image
There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But… — Reginald Horace Blyth Adventure Copy Share Image
Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one. — Reginald Horace Blyth Buddhism Copy Share Image
Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks. — Reginald Horace Blyth Discovering Copy Share Image
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town… — Reginald Horace Blyth Choices Copy Share Image
“What is Zen? Zen means doing anything perfectly, making mistakes perfectly, being defeated perfectly, hesitating perfectly, doing anything perfectly or imperfectly, perfectly.… — Reginald Horace Blyth Failure Copy Share Image
What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it… — Reginald Horace Blyth Becoming Copy Share Image
Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care… — Reginald Horace Blyth Action Copy Share Image
Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one. — Reginald Horace Blyth A perfect world Copy Share Image
