Zen Haiku

Blog: http://psychreviews.org/zen-haiku-various-authors/

Haiku is the shortest form of poetry. The goal of this poetry is to communicate the poet’s immediate experience. Of course the audience didn’t experience what the poet did, so the trick is how it makes the audience use their memories to fill in the gaps. Each individual reader will have a unique image in response to the same poem.

To get the most out of this experience just absorb yourself in the images that your mind naturally creates from the words…

Explanation of Haiku 0:00
Pointing instruction 0:30
Basho 1:44
Masaoka 2:07
Soseki 2:12
Soseki 2:24
Soseki 2:33
Joso 2:44
Basho 2:57
Chiyo-Ni 3:07
Hashin 3:14
Basho 3:26
Masaoka 3:38
Basho 3:50
Moritake 3:58
Issa 4:06
Basho 4:16
Basho 4:26
Soseki 4:38
Basho 4:50
Masaoka 5:02
Ryuin 5:13
Hara 5:24
Issa 5:33
Tama 5:39
Soseki 5:48
Issa 5:57
Basho 6:08
Basho 6:21
Outro Japan 6:28

Zen Haiku – Jonathan Clements: Paperback: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780711236516/

Classic Haiku - by Tom Lowenstein: Hardcover: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781627950480/

Good English translations here

http://www.thehypertexts.com/Haiku%20Best%20Masters%20Translation%20.htm

Sound effects and Zen Garden music:

https://mynoise.net/

Video of Japan from my 2015 trip.