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in existence.
He took out the sword and showed the man a warrior's stance, the way the warrior stands with his sword: "This is it! If you have eyes you can see. If you don't have eyes I am helpless." But no dialogue, just existential indications.
Shiro wrote:
IN SNOW-WHITE MIST
WHERE SEA AND SKY ARE ONE,
A SINGLE DISK OF RED -- THE RISING SUN.
Haikus are pictures, visualize them. They are not poetries in the ordinary sense. Just visualize:
IN SNOW-WHITE MIST
WHERE SEA AND SKY ARE ONE,
A SINGLE DISK OF RED -- THE RISING SUN.
These haikus have come out of meditation.
Perhaps Shiro was meditating by the seaside, and as he opened his eyes
IN SNOW-WHITE MIST WHERE SEA AND SKY ARE ONE,
on the horizon, suddenly
A SINGLE DISK OF RED -- THE RISING SUN.
And utter silence on his part, he is no more there. He is completely absorbed in the ocean, in the mist, in the rising sun.
It happened to Picasso -- it will help you to understand.
He was painting. One man was watching continuously for one and a half hours. Finally he could not resist the temptation -- because he could not understand what Picasso was painting. Just colors, colors, but no idea what he was painting. Finally he shook Picasso and asked, "What are you painting?"
As if from a trance, Picasso was awakened. He said, "What...? I was not there. Just the painting was happening, I was not painting. I don't know what. When the painting is complete, the critics will find out what I have painted, because I am not. I am simply my brush, my colors, my canvas. Something is happening, something is cooking, but I don't know exactly."
A rich young woman, very super-rich, asked him, "You have never made any portrait..." He has never made any portrait, because who will ask him to make a portrait? Just look at his paintings!
He said, "I have never done any portrait."
The woman said, "I am willing to pay any amount of money. Don't bother about money, money does not matter." She was a widow of a super-rich American.
Just to avoid the woman, Picasso said, "It will cost one
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