Ryokan, high in the tree,
\nplucked the bright persimmons
\ntasting them to test their ripeness.
\nBut then he ate them all himself,
\nforgetting the small boy
\nwho waited on the ground.<\/p>\n
I bought my persimmons
\nin the bright supermarket;
\none was soft, but was it quite ripe?
\nI plunged a spoon into it, and
\nit was almost perfect,
\nso I shared it with you.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
(The story of Ryokan and the persimmons appears in the introduction to John Stevens, One Robe One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan<\/em> [Shambala: 2006\/1977], but without any attribution.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ryokan, high in the tree, plucked the bright persimmons tasting them to test their ripeness. But then he ate them all himself, forgetting the small boy who waited on the ground. I bought my persimmons in the bright supermarket; one was soft, but was it quite ripe? I plunged a spoon into it, and it … Continue reading “Persimmon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-5989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations","tag-persimmon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5990,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}