Glasgow Zen

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Alan Spence. Glasgow Zen

GLASGOW ZEN

CONTENTS

GLASGOW ZEN. On the oneness of self and universe

On the ultimate identity ofmatter and spirit, form and void

On the suchness of things

On identity in difference

On the implicit dualismof value-judgements

JINGLE. Jingle on Glasgow city arms

This is the bell that never rang

This is the tree that never grew

This is the bird that never flew

This is the fish that never swam

JOSHU’S MU

MORE ON JOSHU’S MU. Does a turnip have the Buddha-nature?

JAPANESE BOXES (Daibutsu, Great Buddha, Kamakura)

TODAY

MOTORWAY RED

RAG

PADDY’S

SING (homage to Gertrude Stein)

LORRY (homage to Laurie Anderson)

SONG

PRAYER FLAG

SILVER

TARNISH

EYE OF THE STORM

LOOP

TOUCHING THE VOID

SAME OLD

AS LIGHT

SEEING MOUNT FUJI FROM THE BULLET TRAIN

EM (for Edwin Morgan)

FOOTBALL HAIKU

THE PUNDITS (verbatim poems) BIG RON SPEAKS

GRANDSTAND

PITTODRIE PUNTER (for Liam McIlvanney)

KRISHNA CONCIOUSNESS (young devotee selling CDs)

GLASGOW’S FULL OF POETS

AFTER THE JAPANESE (1) BILINGUAL HAIKU

AFTER BASHO

AFTER SENGAI

SENGAI ANNOUNCES HIS OWN ABSENCE

AFTER DOGEN

AFTER THE JAPANESE (2) (anonymous tanka sequence)

ISSA

RYOKAN

SANTOKA

ORACLE

GLASGOW ZEN (2) On man’s anti-entropic function in the universe

On the music of what happens

On truth being self-evident and sufficient unto itself

On walking the pathless path

On the sound of one hand clapping

CODA

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

About the Author. GLASGOW ZEN

Also by Alan Spence

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Alan Spence

Joshu’s Mu

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After the Japanese (2)

Glasgow Zen (2)

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