Having Once Paused by Ikkyu Sojun

Having Once Paused by Ikkyu Sojun

The influence of Zen Master Ikkyu (1394-1481) permeates the full field of medieval Japanese aesthetics. Though best known as a poet, he was central to the shaping and reshaping of practices in calligraphy, Noh theater, tea ceremony, and rock gardening, all of which now define Japan s sense of its cultural tradition. Ikkyu is unique in Zen for letting his love of all appearance occupy him until it destroys any possibility for safety or seclusion. In his poetry, he turns the eye of enlightenment to all phenomena: politics, pine trees, hard meditation practice, sex, wine. A lifelong outsider to religious establishments, Ikkyu nonetheless accepted Imperial command to rebuild his home temple, Daitoku-ji, destroyed in the civil wars. He died before that project was complete.
The poems in this collection express the unborn bliss of Ikkyu s realization and equally his devastation at the horrors of this world. They are peopled with ancient Chinese poets, cantankerous Japanese Zen Masters, contemporary warlords, and his lover Mori, a blind musician who lived with Ikkyu the last eleven years of his life. All of this is his Buddhism. His awakening outshines the small idols of reason, emotion, self, desire, doctrine, even of Buddhism itself.

Sarah Messer is a well-regarded lyric poet and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at UNC-Wilmington, USA.

Kidder Smith is Professor of History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College, USA.

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ISBN 13	9780472052561
ISBN 10	047205256X
Titel	Having Once Paused
Autor	Ikkyu Sojun
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The University of Michigan Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2015-06-02
Seitenanzahl	120
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