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We\u2019re always connected in some way, of course, even perched in the eagle\u2019s nest. I found William LaFleur\u2019s<\/a> thoughts on the dharma<\/a> poet, Saigyo, particularly ripe on this point. Here\u2019s a selection.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Saigyo\u2019s sensitivity to the irony in human affairs is related to his awareness of what goes off track when we dichotomize reality. He was forced to see that even his own attempts to \u201cleave the world\u201d were, if naively misconstrued, attempts to find private peace in another such dichotomy. To transcend that habit of mind became the project of both his Buddhist<\/a> practice and his writing of poetry during the later decades of his life. The \u201cworld\u201d he had left behind was the world that bifurcated all things into what one subjectively liked or wanted on the one hand and what one disliked and disowned on the other. Therefore, even solitude had become tolerable and in its own way an aspect of reality to be cherished. This insight seems to lie behind the following poem:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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An ancient field<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
and in the sole tree starkly<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
rising to its side<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
sits a dove, calling to its mate:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
the awesome nightfall.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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