What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.
Reginald Horace BlythRegarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .
Reginald Horace BlythZen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.
Reginald Horace BlythRegarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, all of whom had a prior interest in Zen.
Reginald Horace Blyth