{"id":352,"date":"2012-12-12T22:31:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T03:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/?p=352"},"modified":"2016-04-11T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T20:30:19","slug":"zen-and-the-snowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2012\/12\/12\/zen-and-the-snowman\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen and the snowman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJI5gaWuf6w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>A<\/strong>t the peak of my soul\u2019s depths<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>I sit in silent reverie<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>The sun above, weather below<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>The vast blue breathes in, out of me<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Snow Man<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehypertexts.com\/Wallace%20Stevens%20Poet%20Poetry%20Picture%20Bio.htm\">Wallace Stevens<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One must have a mind of winter<br \/>\nTo regard the frost and the boughs<br \/>\nOf the pine-trees crusted with snow;<\/p>\n<p>And have been cold a long time<br \/>\nTo behold the junipers shagged with ice,<br \/>\nThe spruces rough in the distant glitter<\/p>\n<p>Of the January sun; and not to think<br \/>\nOf any misery in the sound of the wind,<br \/>\nIn the sound of a few leaves,<\/p>\n<p>Which is the sound of the land<br \/>\nFull of the same wind<br \/>\nThat is blowing in the same bare place<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the listener, who listens in the snow,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And, nothing himself, beholds<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Hafez says&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h6>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: center\">\u062d\u0627\u0641\u0638 \u0633\u062e\u0646 \u0628\u06af\u0648\u06cc \u06a9\u0647 \u0628\u0631 \u0635\u0641\u062d\u0647 \u062c\u0647\u0627\u0646 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" style=\"text-align: left\">\u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u0646\u0642\u0634 \u0645\u0627\u0646\u062f \u0627\u0632 \u0642\u0644\u0645\u062a \u06cc\u0627\u062f\u06af\u0627\u0631 \u0639\u0645\u0631<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>But those whose lives are centered on<\/h6>\n<h6>Your lovely mouth confess<\/h6>\n<h6>No other thoughts than this, and think<\/h6>\n<h6>Nothing of Nothingness<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u0628\u064a\u0627 \u0648 \u0647\u0633\u062a\u064a \u062d\u0627\u0641\u0638 \u0632 \u067e\u064a\u0634 \u0627\u0648 \u0628\u0631\u062f<\/h6>\n<h6>\u06a9\u0647 \u0628\u0627 \u0648\u062c\u0648\u062f \u062a\u0648 \u06a9\u0633 \u0646\u0634\u0646\u0648\u062f \u0632 \u0645\u0646 \u06a9\u0647 \u0645\u0646\u0645<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Come, and make sure Hafez&#8217;s being<\/h6>\n<h6>will disappear-<\/h6>\n<h6>Since You exist, no one will hear<\/h6>\n<h6>Me say, &#8220;I&#8217;m here.&#8221;<\/h6>\n<h6><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the peak of my soul\u2019s depths I sit in silent reverie The sun above, weather below The vast blue breathes in, out of me &nbsp; 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