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Buddhist : Zen / Chan

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Timeline (1930 - )

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Original Language
English

Regarding Wave

Themes

Bower

Light

Mountain

Sound

Tree

Recommended Books

	Back Country, by Gary Snyder
	Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation, by Carole Tonkinson
	Earth House Hold, by Gary Snyder
	The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry and Translations, 1952 - 1998, by Gary Snyder
	Mountains and Rivers Without End, by Gary Snyder

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The voice of the Dharma
          the voice
               now

A shimmering bell
          through all.

Every hill, still.
Every tree alive. Every leaf.
All the slopes flow.
          old woods, new seedlings,
          tall grasses plumes.

Dark hollows; peaks of light.
     wind stirs the cool side
Each leaf living.
          All the hills.

               The Voice
               is a wife
                    to

               him still.

-- from Regarding Wave, by Gary Snyder

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