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LOVING BEDFELLOWS: WHITMAN AND ZEN

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1973
Summary:
The voice of Leaves of Grass is the voice of nature "without check with original energy." Zen, as described by its followers, is Nature itself. This thesis is a comparison of Zen nature and Whitman's voice of nature. Zen-- A monk was anxious to learn Zen and said: "Will you be gracious enough to show me the way to Zen?" The master said: "Do you hear the murmuring sound of the mountain stream?" The monk answered: "Yes I do." The master said: "Here is the entrance." Whitman-- Was somebody asking to see the soul? See your own shame and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands. Zen insight rests somewhere within perception or consciousness of the mountain stream. Whitman places a similar value on perception of nature.
Title: LOVING BEDFELLOWS: WHITMAN AND ZEN.
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Name(s): SMATHERS, FRANK T.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1973
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 84 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The voice of Leaves of Grass is the voice of nature "without check with original energy." Zen, as described by its followers, is Nature itself. This thesis is a comparison of Zen nature and Whitman's voice of nature. Zen-- A monk was anxious to learn Zen and said: "Will you be gracious enough to show me the way to Zen?" The master said: "Do you hear the murmuring sound of the mountain stream?" The monk answered: "Yes I do." The master said: "Here is the entrance." Whitman-- Was somebody asking to see the soul? See your own shame and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands. Zen insight rests somewhere within perception or consciousness of the mountain stream. Whitman places a similar value on perception of nature.
Identifier: 13603 (digitool), FADT13603 (IID), fau:10444 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.
Subject(s): Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Leaves of grass
Zen Buddhism
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