How to Write Haiku and Other Spiritual Practices with Clark Strand
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Clark Strand is an American author and lecturer on spirituality and religion. He is a former Zen Buddhist monk and was the first Senior Editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. He is also the author of many books including The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary and Seeds of a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey
In this episode, Eric and Clark discuss a few of his books in addition to his exploration of the many spiritual traditions.
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Clark Strand and I Discuss Haiku and Other Creative Spiritual Practices and …
- His book, Waking Up to the Dark: The Black Madonna’s Gospel for an Age of Extinction and Collapse
- His exploration of many spiritual traditions
- Self power and other power
- The circular notion of spiritual life rather than linear notion of progress
- How a bead/rosary practice represents the circular nature of spirituality
- The “hour of God” or “hour of the wolf” when awake in the night
- Haiku and the tradition and forms of this type of poetry
- Translation of haiku is “playful verse”
- How profound meanings can come through from this playful art from
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| 0:00.0 | The most elusive part of a haiku is what I call the turn of thought. |
| 0:04.6 | So what the poet has to do is to add a turn of thought to the 17 syllables with a |
| 0:09.9 | season word that results in more than 17 syllables of meaning. |
| 0:22.7 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:24.8 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:29.3 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:34.9 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:39.2 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:43.9 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:46.8 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:50.3 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:53.7 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:58.5 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. |
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