Poets, Verses and the Pure Land - a teaching on Buddhism

The Buddha once said that in the future monks will listen to “literary works of poets, elegant in sound, elegant in rhetoric” and will lose the true teachings. The concern was that poetry will delude rather than enlighten. In Shin, reading and writing poetry is pretty popular. How can we read an appreciate poetry without falling into attachment? This talk will look into how to read buddhist and non-buddhist poetry. Poets like by Frost and Yeats will be read. Presented by Kogen.