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“C'è un punto oltre il quale l'addestramento e la pratica non possono portare. Zeami, lo straordinario drammaturgo e regista di teatro Noh del quattordicesimo secolo, che era anche sacerdote zen, ha parlato di questo momento come di una “sorpresa”. È la sorpresa di scoprire di non aver più bisogno di un sé, la sorpresa di ritrovarsi una cosa sola col proprio lavoro in un movimento pieno di fluida disciplina e grazia. Allora si capisce che cosa vuol dire essere una palla d'argilla che gira sul tornio, un trucciolo bianco sollevato dalla punta dello scalpello o una delle molte mani di Kannon, Bodhisattva della Compassione. A questo punto è possibile essere liberi, nel lavoro e dal lavoro.”

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Book:The Practice of the Wild
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“La nostra cultura è nella famiglia e nella comunità ed emerge quando ci mettiamo insieme a fare un lavoro concreto, a giocare, a raccontare storie, recitare, o quando qualcuno si ammala, muore o nasce, oppure in occasione di feste come il Giorno del Ringraziamento. Una cultura è una rete di comunità locali che ha radici e viene curata. Ha dei limiti ed è ordinaria. “È una persona colta” non dovrebbe significare “d'élite” ma piuttosto qualcosa come “ben fecondata”. (Il termine cultura rimanda a significati latini legati al verbo colere, coltivare, curare, venerare, rispettare. La radice kwel significa fondamentalmente girare intorno a un cerchio, ed è parente di wheel (ruota) e del greco telos, completamento di un ciclo, da cui teologia. In sanscrito la ruota o “la grande ruota dell'universo” è chakra e la parola hindi moderna corrisponde a charkha, arcolaio, la ruota per filare con cui Gandhi meditò sulla libertà dell'India mentre era in prigione).”

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Book:The Practice of the Wild
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“I nostri corpi sono selvatici. Il gesto involontario e veloce di girare la testa se sentiamo un grido, la vertigine se guardiamo in un precipizio, il cuore in gola nei momenti di pericolo, il riprendere fiato, i momenti tranquilli di quiete quando ci rilassiamo e riflettiamo sono tutte risposte universali di questo corpo mammifero. Si osservano in tutti i mammiferi. Il corpo non ha bisogno dell'intercessione di un intelletto conscio per respirare, per far battere il cuore.”

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Book:The Practice of the Wild
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“I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years.”

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“Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered in Buddhist terms - Buddhist practice being part of Ko Un's background. Ko Un writes spare, short-line lyrics direct to the point, but often intricate in both wit and meaning. Ko Un has now traveled worldwide and is not only a major spokesman for all Korean culture, but a voice for Planet Earth Watershed as well.”

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“For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel; it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community.”

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“Human beings everywhere in the world are affected by the global media now. Still, what I have noticed in the east Asia, in the indigenous world, Alaska in particular, and in back country farm and ranch country, is a higher sense of etiquette, and more respectful manners. Urban middle class cosmopolitan world peoples of all races have become speedy and rude. This is a pretty big generalization though.”

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“I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.”

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“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”

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“Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe”

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Book:Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries
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“Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.”

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Book:No nature: new and selected poems
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“Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?”

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Book:Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
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