Winter Renku

Verse 17

III. ENLIGHTENMENT (4 verses)

This last section is like a train pulling into its destined station. For the Buddhist monks who designed renku, this destination is always the same:

ENLIGHTENMENT: a feeling of peace,a feeling that we have contemplated the universe together and now, together, we are ready to take a decisive step.

A step toward what? Toward BLOSSOMS!

The blossoms that come at the climax of every renku symbolize nirvana and release from suffering. go deeper.

17. Three lines. No season. No shocks or great excitement. We have looked at human life deeply. Now we are preparing to look beyond it.


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