transcendental level in Basho’s poem. There are no concepts that stay forever. They were impermanent.
3. Zen reflected through imageries and implied
metaphor in Basho’s stormy sea poem
The visual and the auditory imagery are The aurora is the sky phenomenon, and the sound of crashing waves is the earth phenomenon and
appear in the poem. Meanwhile both of them are in the same view that were stretching out along the horizon and were separated by imaginary line.
In the perspective of Zen, there is a situation called Nirvana, the highest circumstances that human can reach through doing dharma or good deeds and
meditation. In the other side there is human earth, the middle circumstances that is bounded by karma, or the circle of life and death Suzuki, 1988: 121.
Since the metaphors in this poem, are the heaven river and the sea in this poem, heaven and earth are separated, but they exist like two sides in a coin.
According to Suzuki, when someone is attached on one side there is thought, when there is a thought there is attachment, when there is attachment there is no
freedom 1988: 17. In Zen Buddhism, when someone has no freedom means he fails to realize the satori.
The non attachment of Zen is the idea that relied upon the poem of stormy sea. In Zen when someone attached to nirvana or the earhtly life he cannot attain
the satori, Basho was in the middle of it in his stillness that showing the non- attachement. In this poem Basho showed his awareness on the experience of non
attachment, and this experience is expression within his Haiku. He experienced the non attachment.
4. Zen reflected through imageries and implied metaphor in Basho’s poem
of cicada’s cry
From the auditory imagery ‘the sound of cicada’s cry’ and the metaphor ‘the sign and the cicada’ this poem conveys Zen idea. Someone that practices
meditation for long time may have the experience of unity with nature. Zen gave an immense feeling to the native feeling for nature, not only by sharpening it to
the highest degree of sensitiveness but also by giving it a metaphysical and religious background Suzuki, 1988: 363.
The sound as the sign is the metaphor for the time; since the existence is live, the sign is the sign of life. While Basho was drowned in his meditation,
suddenly he heard cicada’s cry. When Basho meditated in his loneliness or in the Japanese terminology
called wabi Suzuki, 1988: 23 and drown himself in the meditation of the question of existence, he practiced koan. In Zen there is a method called koan or
the question to help somebody to concentrate his mind to enter the state of meditation.
While he suddenly realized that there is the sound of cicada’s cry, without
the appereance of cicada. When he experienced it, he experienced himself lives in time. As he experienced the sound of cicada, he experienced time.
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