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Part One
1 Prologue 11
2 Renga History 12
3 On the Tsukubashu 16
4 Post-Shinkokinshu Waka 19
5 Ancient and Middle-Period Renga 21
6 The Character of the Work of the Early Masters 23
7 The Style of Ineffable Depth (Yugen) 27
8 Learning and the Study of Renga 36
9 The Role of Waka in Renga Training 40
10 On Hokku 42
11 Double Meaning in Poetry 45
12 The Manifold Configurations of Poetry 48
13 The Roots of Poetry in Temporality 51
14 Poetic Process as a Contemplation 53
15 The Wisdom of Nondiscrimination 56
16 Right Teaching and the Individual Poet 58
17 The Influence of Companions in the Way 60
18 Poetry and the Mundane Mind 62
19 The Issue of Fame as Index of Poetic Value 64
20 Poetry Is an Existential Discipline 66
21 Poetry Is a Self-Consuming Passion 68
22 Worldly Glory Versus Reclusive Concentration 71
23 Criticism Is a Function of One's Own Limitations 73
24 Sitting with a Master 75
25 Constant Practice Is Decisive 77
26 Valorizing the Deviant or Obscure 79
27 The Difficulty of Comprehending Superior Poetry 81
28 The "Vulgar" Verse 83
29 Plagiarism 86
30 Excessive Straining After Effect 89
31 Semantic Confusion 91
32 Incomprehensibility 93
33 The Close Link and the Distant Link 96
34 On Hen-jo-dai-kyoku-ryu; as the Structure of the Renga Link 102
35 On Rikugi: The Six Types of Poetry 109
36 Poetry Contests and Criticism 114
37 Marks and Grade Points in Renga 116
38 One's True Poetry Emerges in Old Age 118
39 The State of Renga in Our Time 120
Part Two
40 About Hen-jo-dai-kyoku-ryu 137
41 The Central Place of Grace (en) in the Poetic Process 140
42 Verses on the Moon, Flowers, and Snow 143
43The Verse of Ineffable Remoteness (Yoon) 145
44 Renga Rules and Buddhist Precepts: The Question of Morality and Freedom 148
45 Poetry and Zen Meditation, the Cosmic Body, and the True Word 153
46 The Link Between Maeku and Tsukeku 156
47 The Nature and Goal of Criticism 159
48 Selecting Friends of the Way 162
49 The Close Link and the Distant Link 164
50 On the Issue of the Ultimate Style 167
51 Discipline in the Mind-Ground 171
52 Orthodoxy and Plurality 173
53 Reclusion 175
54 The Impartiality of Divine Response 178
55 Heredity, Social Status, and the Way 180
56 The Mark of Temporality in Talent, Training, and Fame or Obscurity 182
57 The Difficulty of Achieving the Way: The Transmission of Mind Is Beyond Language 185
58 Mutually Supportive and Antagonistic Arts 188
59 The Practice of Poetry in Our Time 190
60 The Question of the True Buddha and the Ultimate Poem 197
61 The Ten Virtues 200
62 Epilogue 204
Notes 209
Appendix Biographical Notes 337
Bibliography 361
Character List 371
Index of First Lines 399
Subject Index 402
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Megan Bache
reviewed Murmured Conversations: A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet-Monk Shinkei on December 25, 2011 Murmured Conversations: A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet-Monk Shinkei
This is Norman Manea as his best at least as non-fiction goes, with a collection of essays that are lucid, brutal and to the point; no quarter is given to the Romanian society and culture - both in the kneeling under communism posture but also in the more nationalistic stage that prospered so well after 1989 too.
Except for the Eliade bashing essay - discussing that is a matter on its own and I think that overall Mr. Manea did very well in bringing the past to life, while noting also that more about the topic came soon after so the topic would have come to light anyway and the hate addressed to N. Manea for this essay is misplaced, while as a matter of principle, shining light on darker corners of revered public personalities is always a good thing because it reminds us that everyone is fallible and however great an author's work is (eg M. Eliade's novel Forbidden Forest aka Noaptea de Sanzien leads my all time favorite book list) this does not make the author a saint, an oracle, a person of worship etc - the rest of the essays deal with the communist regime and the author's life and work under it. A book like this needs to be read when nostalgia for Ceausescu's "years of light" surfaces...
One niggle I had was the translation of the slogan "anii lumina" in "years of enlightenment" rather than the more appropriate imho "years of light" which give the sense in which the slogan was used to encompass all aspects of Romanian society which (in the vision of the slogan of course) under Ceausescu got so close to paradise , while years of enlightenment just remind one of bookish stuff
Anyway this book is highly recommended if you lived through those hell years or if you are interested in the pathology of a regime that started as force-fed Moscow communism, but then, when Stalin was dead and the Russian troops left, it transformed itself into a mixture of "national communism" (oxymoron but national socialism is inappropriate too) with Byzantine overtones that with a few changes here and there (eg substituting the working class worship for Orthodox Christianity and with selling the Jews to Israel for hard cash rather than killing them) would not have seemed out of place if the Legion would have led the country for a few decades...
The white horse was missing as Ceausescu, short and not that impressive physically, would have looked utterly silly on, but the scepter, the pseudo crown, the cape, the Pantheon of Romanian Heroes etc were all there; reading the essays in this book will give you a better sense of how these things worked in a nominal communist and Eastern block country
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