Spirit - East & West

These two "haiku" have always summed up for me the difference between the Eastern and Western approaches to spirit:

A day of quiet gladness
Mount Fuji is veiled
In misty rain.                (Basho)

Catfish fighting for his life
and winning
Splashing us all.             (Kerouac)

I don't need precepts
I need love
I need the Vision of Love
VISIONS OF LOVE

Jack Kerouac