Osho - Achrya Rajneesh
Japanese poem Haiku is the smallest poetry form in the world but one of the most penetrating. The word haiku means ‘the beginning’. The Haiku poets say: We only begin, we never end. The poet begins, the listener has to complete it. If a poem is complete with the poet, then nothing is left for the listener who will remain a mere spectator.
Then the act is not creative. Basho was a mystic poet who has written amazing Haikus: “When I look carefully,/ I see the nazunia blooming/ By the hedge!” Now, this might not seem like great poetry. Let’s go into it with more sympathy, because Basho is being translated; in his own language it has a totally different texture and favour.
The nazunia is a very common flower. To see a nazunia carefully, a meditator is needed, a delicate consciousness is needed, otherwise you will bypass it. Unless you penetrate it with a sympathetic heart you will miss it. The last syllable, ‘kana’ in Japanese means “I am amazed!” Basho is possessed by its beauty. It is not really the nazunia, it is Basho’s insight, his open heart. The word ‘carefully’ has to be remembered in all its meanings, but the root meaning is meditatively. It means without mind, no clouds of thought in the sky of your consciousness, no memories passing by, no desires… utter emptiness.
When in such a state of no mind you look, even a nazunia is transported into another world. It becomes a lotus of the paradise; the extraordinary has been found in the ordinary.
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Courtesy: Economic Times: Speaking Tree: 10 Feb,2019
Osho - Achrya Rajneesh
Japanese poem Haiku is the smallest poetry form in the world but one of the most penetrating. The word haiku means ‘the beginning’. The Haiku poets say: We only begin, we never end. The poet begins, the listener has to complete it. If a poem is complete with the poet, then nothing is left for the listener who will remain a mere spectator.
Then the act is not creative. Basho was a mystic poet who has written amazing Haikus: “When I look carefully,/ I see the nazunia blooming/ By the hedge!” Now, this might not seem like great poetry. Let’s go into it with more sympathy, because Basho is being translated; in his own language it has a totally different texture and favour.
The nazunia is a very common flower. To see a nazunia carefully, a meditator is needed, a delicate consciousness is needed, otherwise you will bypass it. Unless you penetrate it with a sympathetic heart you will miss it. The last syllable, ‘kana’ in Japanese means “I am amazed!” Basho is possessed by its beauty. It is not really the nazunia, it is Basho’s insight, his open heart. The word ‘carefully’ has to be remembered in all its meanings, but the root meaning is meditatively. It means without mind, no clouds of thought in the sky of your consciousness, no memories passing by, no desires… utter emptiness.
When in such a state of no mind you look, even a nazunia is transported into another world. It becomes a lotus of the paradise; the extraordinary has been found in the ordinary.
DISCLAIMER
The views expressed in the Article above are Author’s personal views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing."
Courtesy: Economic Times: Speaking Tree: 10 Feb,2019