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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself,
"What if I had never seen this before?
What if I knew i would never see it again?"
Rachel Carson
This is a good advise
to ask yourself
before writing a haiku !
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2 comments:
another way to open your eyes is to stop closing them
it's simple fact that none of us has been here before and we are never
coming back
our ability not to look is as much a product of 20 billion years of
evolution as our meagre talent to see
john of the cross [ i think ] 'the light of god is so brilliant we see it as darkness'
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Meister Eckhart
the eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me
"Das Auge, mit dem mich Gott sieht, ist das Auge, mit dem ich ihn sehe; mein Auge und sein Auge ist eins.
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interdependant co-arising:
a frog and the wet sound of water are not two seperate events, a gong and the scent of the garden are not seperate realities.
It's particularly interesting that all that exists today, all that we see and can't see all began as the sound literally of the big bang, and the universal background radiation which is the universal signature of the expansion which came after the big bang is the physical fallout of what was just the sound of that beginning.
Basho's insight and Eckhart's inspiration and Issa's rat swimming the flooded river are that same sound of the singularity. It's impossible not to see and hear it.
Which is what makes haiku so special. The achievement of haiku is the return to one's original self.
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Great words Gabi!
There is a wonderful nature documentary called "Ribbon of Sand" that Public Television shows here occasionally. Much of the narration is from the writings of Rachel Carson.
G.
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