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08-11 Suffering and Resilience
high-definition creative commons posters depicting Suffering and Resilience from Kobayashi Issa’s The Spring of My Life together with further information.
The sources explore suffering and endurance through nature and Japanese folklore. A narrator compares their unhappy life to a stunted chestnut tree that is constantly crushed by winter snows. Several poems and prose sections further detail the bitter cruelty often endured by stepchildren, including physical abuse and starvation. Finally, a miraculous stone Buddha intervenes to save a starving boy, prompting his cruel stepmother to show kindness.
The posters and summaries were generated by
Gemini Notebook
under the direction of
Anandajoti Bhikkhu
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License
