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These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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Reginald Horace Blyth
Age: 65 †
Born: 1898
Born: December 3
Died: 1964
Died: October 28
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Humor
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Simplicity
Freedom
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We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.
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Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.
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What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.
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Zen is poetry poetry is Zen.
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Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.
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There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.
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A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.
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The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.
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What is essential is not the answer but the questions the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.
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I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.
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Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.
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Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.
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Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.
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