Coposing Zen haiku: training to make sense.

From: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics | Date: December 22, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Zen poets have been trained to perceive reality without coloring them with subjective meanings or words. Haikus are written by describing an event or a scene using spare words, using only brief impressions and minimizing the number of syllables to 17. Thus, the poem becomes an exercise in semantics and a way of clearly seeing reality without relying on the subjective biases that have developed in oneself.

I've titled this paper "Composing Zen Haiku: Training to Make Sense" because I think the practice of composing haiku requires a discipline in a person's thinking and emoting patterns ...

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