Which of the Zen Buddhist Concepts Are Reflected in Haiku

question 43

Multiple Choice

Which of the Zen Buddhist concepts are reflected in haiku poetry?

• A)All of life's events are worth preserving in verse and can be covered in seventeen syllables.
• B)Life's greatest mysteries, in the hands of a master poet, can be explained in only seventeen syllables.
• C)Most of humankind is incapable of understanding the world's great mysteries, unlike the great poets.
• D)The hardest concepts in life to understand can never be understood, so true poets never need try.
• E)The conviction that the greatest mysteries of life can only be stated but never analyzed.

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