Peter Levitt

Peter Levitt is a poet and translator whose numerous books of poetry include One Hundred Butterflies and Within Within. In addition, he is the author of Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom. He is the guiding teacher of the Salt Spring Zen Circle in British Columbia.

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Peter Levitt

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Blossom Awakening

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By Saigyo
Translated by Peter Levitt
Translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi
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Yin Mountain

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Translated by Rebecca Nie
Translated by Peter Levitt
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The Complete Cold Mountain

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By Kazuaki Tanahashi
By Peter Levitt
By Han Shan
The Essential Dogen

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Edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Edited by Peter Levitt
By Zen Master Dogen
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No Beginning, No End

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By Jakusho Kwong
Edited by Peter Levitt
Foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh

GUIDES

6 Books on Taoist Philosophy and Practice

Kazuaki Tanahashi: A Guide for Readers

Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan | An Excerpt from The Complete Cold Mountain

A Walk with Dogen into Our Time

In 1954 poet Allen Ginsberg wrote a poem called "Song" that acknowledges the weight of our human circumstance and suffering in a particular and somewhat unusual way. I believe it may also provide a gateway to the following writings by Zen master Eihei Dogen, who addressed the nature of reality as he came to understand the world of people and things through his lifetime practice of Zen.

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