Definition of Terms INTRODUCTION
The realm where artistic impulses are securely kept away from our superficial utilitarian life. Zen also lives here, and this is where Zen is of great help to artists
of all kind Suzuki, 1988: 225. He explained how the artist of Haiku is also a person who learned Zen. For
example, Chiyo, once told to be in deep meditation before she composed good Haiku. Her meditation of cuckoo sound told by DT. Suzuki in the sense of Zen
meditation. Chiyo’s all night meditation on cuckoo sound helped to open up her
unconcious. What she used to do before this experience was to contemplate the subject she would use in composing a Haiku.
In the eyes of DT. Suzuki, for the reason above whatever Haiku she produced was always conducted with a certain amount of artificiality or mere
cleverness that had really nothing to do with poetry in its proper sense. It just happened as a meditation process. Chiyo for the first time realized that a Haiku,
as long as it is a work of poetical creativity, ought to be an expression of one’s inner feeling altogether devoid of the sense of ego. Haiku poet in this sense is a
person who learned Zen Suzuki, 1988:226. DT. Suzuki in analyzing Basho’s Haiku used Dr. R.H Blyth’s comments
to find answer in Basho’s Haiku. He considered Basho as the founder of modern school of Haiku. He also, quoted Dr. R.H Blyth, as one of authority on the study
of Haiku. Dr. R.H Blyth wrote, Haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightment,
in which we see into the life of things. From this view D.T. Suzuki put a position that Basho’s Haiku are the expression of Zen. The position of Basho who is
related to Zen is explained by D.T.Suzuki’s with a reason, that whether
“temporary” or not, Basho gives his seventeen syllables a significant intuition into reality Suzuki, 1988:229. It means that both Haiku and Zen are the matter of
moment where intuition sublimes with reality. Furthermore Suzuki explained deeper into the relation between Zen and
Haiku, Haiku and Zen are not to be confused. Haiku is Haiku and Zen is Zen. Haiku has its own field, it is poetry, but it also partakes of something of Zen, at
the point where a Haiku gets related to Zen. That is what the writer tried to develop in this thesis.
Dr. R.H Blyth wrote in his study of Basho’s Haiku entitled The Gentlest and the Greatest Friend of Moon and Winds that Haiku is the revealing of the
preaching by presenting us with the thing devoid of all our mental twisting and emotional discoloration; or rather, it shows the thing as it exists at one and the
same time outside and inside the mind, perfectly subjective, ourselves undivided from the object in its original unity with ourselves. Dr. R.H Blyth examined Haiku
as an expression. He wrote: It is a way to returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry-
blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short to our Buddha nature. It is a way in which the cold winter rain, the swallows of
evening, even the very day in its hotness and length of the night become truly alive share in our humanity, speak their own silent
and expressive language. http:www.haikupoetshut.combasho.html. The Gentlest and the
Greatest Friend of Moon and Winds Soji, 1996