The Poetry of Cold Mountain: All You Have Is Seeds

In the final session of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, participants share their overnight translations of Hanshan’s poems — working from character-to-word guides across five poems. The range and depth of what emerges moves Peter Levitt and Kaz Tanahashi to reflect openly on the nature of creative work. Peter observes that the participants had nothing but seeds — elements borrowed from a poet writing… Source

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The Poetry of Cold Mountain: All You Have Is Seeds is an episode from Upaya Zen Center by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot.

This episode is 1:01:54 long.

This episode was published on Mar 15, 2026.

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