The meditative experience - essential to all Japanese art - assumes that we are not just being drawn along by a poem, but that we are immersed in it. ...the aim of the poet is not in the temporal but in the timeless. The poet seeks to express not a story, but a transformation within both the poet and the reader. Gregory Wood and Kazuaki Tanahashi
Mitsu Suzuki, Temple Dusk
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Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye -
mountains.
Issa
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Stryck & Ikemoto, The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry
Foto: © Roxana
the awareness and tenderness you direct towards my pictures touche my soul deeply... i am more than grateful. this is the 'circle of Enlightment' in Zen, a very important symbol that at which many calligraphy Masters have tried their hand along the centuries. it was a bliss for me being able to take part in the tea ceremony at which this work had been shown.
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