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By John Brehm

Over a hundred twenty five poetic partners, from Basho to Billy Collins, Saigyo to Shakespeare.

The poems expertly collected right here provide all that one may possibly wish for in non secular companionship: knowledge, compassion, peacefulness, reliable humor, and the facility to either take in and show the private human feelings of grief and pleasure. The e-book features a brief essay on “Mindful examining” and a meditation on sound from editor John Brehm—helping readers process the poems from an experiential, non-analytical viewpoint and input into the conscious analyzing of poetry as one of those meditation.

The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy offers a wide-ranging number of 129 historical and smooth poems not like the other anthology on bookshelves this day. It uniquely locations Buddhist poets like Han Shan, Tu Fu, Saigyo, Ryokan, Basho, Issa, and others along sleek Western poets one wouldn't look forward to finding in this sort of collection—poets like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, William Stafford, Denise Levertov, Jack Gilbert, Ellen Bass, Billy Collins, and extra. What those poems have in universal, irrespective of whether or not they are explicitly Buddhist, is that every one mirror the basic truths the Buddha articulated 2,500 years ago.

The ebook offers a huge poetic supplement to the numerous prose books on mindfulness practice—the poems right here either replicate and embrace the dharma in ways in which can’t be matched by way of different modes of writing. It’s targeted positive aspects contain an advent that discusses the subjects of impermanence, mindfulness, and pleasure and explores the connection among them. Biographical notes position the poets in old context and supply charges and anecdotes to assist readers find out about the poets’ lives. 

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