Ryokan—Hakuin –Dogen
—Robert Aitken—The Diamond Sutra —Dogen
—Tao Te Ching, —
Buddha — Lin Chi
Zen Poems and Quotations
On Zen Poems
Literature, especially poetry, has the same double, paradoxical nature as religion, and it is the main theme of 'Zen in English Literature,' that where there is religion there is poetry, where there is poetry there is religion, not two things in close association, but one thing with two names. The false religion and the false poetical life are equally one: a wallowing in God, a vague and woolly pantheism, nightingales and roses. If anything is so-called poetry, if anything in Buddhism or Christianity will not stand the test of Reality, the test of Zen�'What will not hold perfection, let it burst!"
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