[New-Poetry] Chinese Poetry

[Anny Ballardini]

Self and its constructions of the world dissolve away, and what remains of
us is empty consciousness itself, known in Ch'an [the Chinese word we know
in its Japanese form, Zen] terminology as "empty mind" or "no mind." As
absence, empty mind attends to the ten thousand things [i.e., everything
that exists] with mirrorlike clarity, and so the act of perception itself
becomes a spiritual act: empty mind mirroring the world, leaving its ten
thousand things utterly simple, utterly themselves, and utterly sufficient.
This spiritual practice is a constant presence in classical Chinese, in its
fundamentally pictographic nature. It is also the very fabric of Chinese
poetry, manifest in its texture of imagistic clarity.

http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=cd5b73e0-bb67-4c8c-b986-14998b4382b9&p=2



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Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078
http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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