{"id":32637,"date":"2016-06-28T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T18:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32637"},"modified":"2016-06-26T18:33:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T06:33:27","slug":"tuesday-poetry-to-what-shall-i-liken-the-world-by-dogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/06\/28\/tuesday-poetry-to-what-shall-i-liken-the-world-by-dogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poetry: &#8220;To what shall I liken the world?&#8221; by D\u014dgen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To what shall<br \/>\nI liken the world?<br \/>\nMoonlight, reflected<br \/>\nin dewdrops,<br \/>\nshaken from a crane&#8217;s bill.<\/p>\n<p>D\u014dgen, 1200 &#8211; 1253<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, D\u014dgen was a Japanese Buddhist\u00a0 priest, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of both Eihei-ji monastery and the S\u014dt\u014d school of Zen in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>I first learned of D\u014dgen and Eihei-ji in Peter Matthiessen&#8217;s book <strong><em>Nine-Headed Dragon River<\/em><\/strong> which led me to visit the temple, located in a mountainous region of western Honshu, when I visited Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The poem is among the most famous zen poems, addressing the nature of impermanence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected in dewdrops, shaken from a crane&#8217;s bill. D\u014dgen, 1200 &#8211; 1253 &#8212; According to Wikipedia, D\u014dgen was a Japanese Buddhist\u00a0 priest, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of both Eihei-ji monastery and the S\u014dt\u014d school of Zen in Japan. I first learned of D\u014dgen and Eihei-ji in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32639,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32637\/revisions\/32639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}