{"id":1462,"date":"2006-03-26T20:33:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T04:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/26\/poetry-buddhism\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:18","slug":"poetry-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/26\/poetry-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry &#038; Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Meditation is when you sit down, let&#8217;s say that, and don&#8217;t do anything. Poetry is when you get up and do something. Somewhere we&#8217;ve developed the misconception that poetry is self-expression, and that meditation is going inward. Actually, poetry has nothing to do with self-expression, it is the way to be free, finally, of self-expression, to go much deeper than that. And meditation is not a form of thought or reflection, it is a looking at or an awareness of what is there, equally inside and outside, and then it doesn&#8217;t make sense anymore to mention inside or outside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Norman Fischer, <em>Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/whiskeyriver.blogspot.com\/\">Whiskey River<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation is when you sit down, let&#8217;s say that, and don&#8217;t do anything. Poetry is when you get up and do something. Somewhere we&#8217;ve developed the misconception that poetry is self-expression, and that meditation is going inward. Actually, poetry has nothing to do with self-expression, it is the way to be free, finally, of self-expression, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12310,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/12310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}