The Delight of the Poet, The Joy of the Reader

And from my perspective, this is about deep joy or even ecstasy.

From the heart of the sweet peony a drunken bee.

From the heart of the sweet peony a drunken bee.

From the heart of the sweet peony a drunken bee.

I got caught up in the excitement of it and omitted to ring the bell oh but it's so lovely so there's the utter delight of the bee who is intoxicated actually let's say the rapture of the bee but also the sweet loveliness of the peony the delight of the poet and let's hope the joy of the reader as well and Shunryu Suzuki different Suzuki says quite simply about the depth of these experiences the insight possibilities and the ordinariness the Buddha lies in the inconspicuous things of daily life at the right time of the year we could go out there and see a drunken bee in a peony and our hearts could leap for joy and we might attain a degree of insight.

So do come back in the summer.

So very near the end, don't need to say a lot.

So this is a quotation again from D.T. Suzuki.

He uses quite a lot of words to describe the haiku, a lot more than 17 syllables, but it's a lovely quotation.

So he's saying that the haiku is characterized by simplicity, directness, abandonment, boldness, aloofness, unworldliness, innerliness, free movement of spirit, mystic breathing of a creative genius within the work.

And I'll read that again.

I think I slightly missed an and in that phrasing.

So it's characterised by simplicity, directness, abandonment, boldness, aloofness, unworldliness, innerliness and free movement of spirit.

Mystic breathing of a creative genius within the work.

So for us, in the morning, in the shrine room, this arises from well, from darkness, night, from dreams, but it arises from silence, happens, and we allow it to happen three times, and it passes away into the silence.

Just as all experience arises, happens, and passes away.

And a deep truth in a very few words.