Ko Un
ISBN: 978-1-888375-65-7
Ko Un was born in 1933, experienced to the full the horrors of the Korean War (1950-3), and became a Buddhist monk. After ten years of Zen practice, he came back into the world, joined the struggle for democracy, and is now Korea’s most renowned poet and writer with over 130 books published so far.
Ko Un is affectionately called “the great mountain peak” by his friends and has seen an eventful life as a monk, poet, novelist, political dissident, husband, and father. In these poems, Ko Un asks us to participate in the festivities of our lives.
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True!! Thanks for ptonisg.I find telling myself ‘sit with this, sit with this, sit with this’ helps me push through it instead of the old message (which still appears now and again) stating ‘run, run, run’.