I am really sorry because of my problems in finding time to keep the blog updated. In spite of this, I don't want to drop it, and I'll do my best to post as soon as possible all the missing stuff.
Mu
Two messy eyebrows
one little childhood scar.
The skyline on the sand
and four drops of green tea.
So one writes blank.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
A year of blank: John Cage's Water walk
On the 5th of January the original blog had his first anniversary: a whole year of absence in the web. To forget this little event I'm posting here the first video of writing blank, the first "shooting blank". It's the performance of Water Walk, of course live, performed by John Cage during the CBS program "I've got a secret" in January 1960. A marvellous and funny pearl, to be watched with a double smile, like the one which never leaves Cage's face.
For those who don't know who is John Cage, and even more for those who know it, here is the link to his page on uncyclopedia.
And don't forget to press pause on the blog player on the right.
Originally posted in Italian on January 6, 2009 at 22:28
Labels:
shooting blank
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Apocryphal koans: Case IX
A monk asked Chao-chou: – What is the Buddha?
Chao-chou answered: – It’s a pacifier for babies.
Poem
Like some babies
we suddenly accept the deception of the sense.
To spit it by ourself it is not difficult:
just we can resign ourself
to a free mouth.
Originally posted in Italian on January 1, 2009 at 18:55
Labels:
apocryphal koans,
apocryphal zen
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Winter [VI]
Circles in the pond,
in the centre the duck
has flown away.
Originally posted in Italian on December 21, 2008 at 11:02
Labels:
apocryphal zen,
barbaric haikus
Monday, December 15, 2008
Out of season [V]
Sitted on a tram
a man wraps the rest up
of his son’s lunch.
Originally posted in Italian on December 15, 2008 at 15:23
Labels:
apocryphal zen,
barbaric haikus
Sunday, December 7, 2008
An apocryphal gatha
I’ve found unexpected fresh space
for every possibility:
renunciation.
Originally posted in Italian on December 7, 2008 at 13:38
Labels:
apocryphal zen,
more zen poetry
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Haiku for a new-born child [VIII]
The clothes taken off:
the nappy is unwrapped
as a present.
Originally posted in Italian on November 29, 2008 at 00:50
Labels:
haikus for a new-born child
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