Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life
A Philosophy, China, Eastern Philosophy book. Four Huts is a meditation on the simple life seen through the lens of four ancient Japanese poets....
The short works collected in Four Huts give voice to one of the most treasured aesthetic and spiritual ideals of Asia—that of a simple life lived in a simple dwelling. The texts were written between the ninth and the seventeenth centuries and convey each author's underlying sense of the world and what is to be valued in it. Four Huts presents...
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- Pages: 112 pages
- ISBN: 9781570629464 / 1570629463
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Four Huts is a meditation on the simple life seen through the lens of four ancient Japanese poets. It is an arc where each in their time write about their own personal choice to leave the hustle and bustle of society and live in a simple dwelling with nature, their faith (typically Pure Land Buddhism) and their own thoughts as their... praises of solitude It's easy to get caught up in the subtitle of this book, "Asian Writings on the Simple Life," and draw conclusions about Asian views of what life should really be like after reading this book. Don't be so hasty. Each of the four authors are far from simple people. All of them were members of the ultra-literate elite of their day. All...
