Georgie Laws’s Reviews > One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan > Status Update

Many of those poems make me feel melancholy. They are beautiful, but always seem to have a tinge of loneliness. It makes me wonder if being an isolated monk w no other monks around would be the most arduous part. Without spending time with people who understand me, I feel lost and very alone even when there are people around me. It must be hard to think this way and have no one to even talk to about it.