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a pair of posts by Yahia today (@EgyptianAphorist), with quotes from #Rumi and #Hakuin, remind me of a favorite #poem and image from Hakuin
Yahia Lababidi@bodhidave Thank you, Dave, for the dazzling clarity of this #poetry 🙏🏼✨
David McMullin@bodhidave @EgyptianAphorist
Is this in any way related to Tang poet Li Bai’s supposed death by drowning, trying to embrace the reflection of the moon? (He wrote a lot about the moon, and about drinking to excess, so the legend kinda fits the poetry)
Is this in any way related to Tang poet Li Bai’s supposed death by drowning, trying to embrace the reflection of the moon? (He wrote a lot about the moon, and about drinking to excess, so the legend kinda fits the poetry)
@mcmullin @bodhidave Interesting parallel. I’ll let you take this, Dave ?
I'm sure there'd have been resonances. The Zen tradition, for all its "not relying on words and letters," was quite literary and poetic. They were surely acquainted with the story of Li Bai.
The more immediate connections, though, would of course be their associations with the full moon as an emblem of awakening, and the monkey as a symbol of our habitually scattered and self-centered minds.