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About Gary SnyderTimeline (1930 - ) |
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No Matter, Never Mind
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The Father is the Void
The Wife Waves Their child is Matter. Matter makes it with his mother And their child is Life, a daughter. The Daughter is the Great Mother Who, with her father/brother Matter as her lover, Gives birth to the Mind.
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Gary Snyder, like many of the Beatniks, has been strongly influenced by Buddhism and eastern spirituality -- and it shows in this brief poem.
The lines of this poem are really just a reformulation of a traditional eastern description of the Eternal as understood in the male and female roles that result in the manifestation of the universe.
The masculine aspect of the Eternal as an immense Void or no-thing-ness that contains the seed or potential of existence. The feminine counterpart is the emanation or shakti of the Eternal, that potential put into motion.
An analogy is sometimes made of the sun: the fire is the male, and the waves of light and heat that radiate from it are the female.
When the potential is carried by the waves of manifestation, the result is a child -- matter... and the drama of creation and awareness begins.
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