Red Pine’s Stonehouse poems
Posted: May 26, 2021 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentAn early copy of Red Pine’s Stonehouse poems that was printed in Taiwan. It’s still in print in a modern edition.
Jim Harrison
Posted: February 4, 2021 Filed under: Uncategorized 2 CommentsWe are each
the only world
we are going to get.
–From Returning to Earth
New Empty Bowl books by Red Pine
Posted: January 25, 2020 Filed under: books, Buddhism Zen, people, states of mind, writers Leave a commentEmerson on the books we read
Posted: January 12, 2020 Filed under: books, people, time and space, writers Leave a commentA New Edition of David Loy’s Non-Duality, A Classic
Posted: January 4, 2020 Filed under: Buddhism Zen, people, religion, states of mind, writers 1 Comment
Loy’s book is essential for anyone practicing some level of Zen, Buddhism, Taoism, or a student of the writings of Heidegger or the Japanese philosophers related to the writings of Suzuki, Abe, et al. Loy was a student in Yamada Roshi’s Sanbo Kyodan lineage. The new edition has a revised introduction and notes; it is published by Yale University Press.
Richard Poirier and Stanley Cavell: two inspired guides into deepest Emerson
Posted: December 24, 2019 Filed under: books, people, poetry, states of mind, writing Leave a comment“Emerson says now and then that language might lead us back to human origins, that ‘language,’ as he says in ‘The Poet,’ is ‘fossil poetry.’ This implies that there are discoverable traces in language of that aboriginal power by which we invent ourselves as a unique form of nature. Frost in an Emersonian mood ends the poem ‘All Revelation’ with a tribute to this human inventiveness:
‘Eyes seeking the response of eyes
Bring out the stars, bring out the flowers,
Thus concentrating earth and skies
So none need be afraid of size.
All revelation has been ours. ‘”