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I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

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Reginald Horace Blyth

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

Eye, Looks, Becoming, Eyes, God
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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.

Beautiful, Energy, Moon, Nothing

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

Ashes, Change, Darkness, Dust, Hate

Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.

Actions, Doe, Imperfect, Mean, Perfect
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