| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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11 | (8) |
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A Bracelet of Turquoise from Aguilar |
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19 | (9) |
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from The Stand-in Under Duress |
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``Let's try to repeat ...'' |
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28 | (4) |
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32 | (4) |
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36 | (7) |
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Prayer With Martial Stance |
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43 | (5) |
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``There Is Not Much Difference Between the Two.'' (Suzuki Daisetz) |
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48 | (8) |
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``The dialectical thinker ...'' |
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``Reality Rears Its Ugly Head'' |
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56 | (6) |
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Letter to Jeanne (at Tassajara) |
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62 | (4) |
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66 | (10) |
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76 | (5) |
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Lovers' Reunion at the Cavalier Motel |
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81 | (4) |
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85 | (9) |
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A Ripple of Deer, A Metamorphosis of Bear, A Metaphor of Mountains |
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from Meditation and Poetics |
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Thoughts Sitting Breathing |
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``What would you do if you lost it?'' |
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Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit |
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107 | (5) |
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Born Into a World Knowing |
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112 | (12) |
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Sitting Zen, Working Zen, Feminist Zen |
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``Thirty-one new yellow daffodils'' |
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124 | (9) |
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The Idea of Balance Is to Be Found in Herons and Loons |
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133 | (8) |
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Photograph of a Man Holding His Penis |
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Today, Somewhat After Dante |
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141 | (8) |
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In a Ch'ing Dynasty Painting |
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Poetry, Zazen, and the Net of Connection |
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Recalling a Sung Dynasty Landscape |
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In That World, the Angels Wear Fins |
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November, Remembering Voltaire |
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157 | (5) |
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162 | (9) |
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Objections to the Unsatisfactoriness of Cyclic Existence |
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171 | (5) |
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176 | (15) |
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Buddhism, Art, Practice, Polity |
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from Rinzai on the Self, ... |
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191 | (5) |
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To Go Through Life Is to Walk Across a Field |
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196 | (4) |
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from Sonnets From the War Zones: Nicaragua |
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200 | (7) |
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Some Reveries on Poetry as a Spiritual Discipline |
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207 | (3) |
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Opening the Cabin at Mid-Winter |
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A Small Prayer to Everything |
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This Day of Spring, We All Go Outside |
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Trying to Read in My Study |
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210 | (8) |
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Further Fingers for the Further Hand |
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218 | (8) |
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from The Field & Garden of Circe |
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226 | (2) |
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228 | (3) |
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A Cycle of Hoops for the First Snow |
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231 | (5) |
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236 | (7) |
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Mounting the Poetry Vehicle |
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243 | (15) |
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Notes on a Life in Buddhism |
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258 | (3) |
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261 | (10) |
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from Little Songs for Gaia |
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Surrounded by Wild Turkeys |
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Raven's Beak River at the End |
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At White River Roadhouse in the Yukon |
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271 | (5) |
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Neither the speaker nor the spoken, ... |
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276 | (7) |
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from theforestforthetrees |
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283 | (14) |
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Death of a Zen Poet: Shinkichi Takahashi (1901--1987) |
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297 | (5) |
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Retreat Toward the Spring |
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The Poet Who No Longer Made Use of Words |
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from The Beautiful Contradictions |
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302 | (12) |
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Zen, Poetry, and the Great Dream Buddha |
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The Restoration of the World |
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Spell to Be Recited for Banishing Loneliness |
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Why the Gods Screw Things Up |
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314 | (14) |
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Gender and the Wisdom Body: Secular/Sexual Musings |
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328 | (10) |
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About Writing and Meditation |
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Opening the Mountain, Tamalpais: 22:X:65 |
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Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring |
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338 | (5) |
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The Governors of Zuni (A Photograph) |
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Nursery Song for Two Sons |
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| About the Editors |
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343 | (1) |
| Credits |
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344 | (7) |
| Index of Titles |
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351 | (4) |
| Index of First Lines |
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