wordless smile

spring is here ! three wordless smiles by the roadside

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One of Buddha's disciples
reveals his enlightenment through
a 'wordless smile.'

This smile was passed along until the Bodhidharma (Daruma san) brought it to China, where the smile was transformed into thundering laughter.


Alan Watts called haiku “the wordless poem”.

. Wordless smile, wordless poem 　　




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