《砌石与寒山诗》:禅意浓厚的劳动礼赞

Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems:Gary Snyder’s hymn of manual labor skills

在《砌石与寒山诗》这一诗集中,斯奈德经常将荒野劳动者及其劳作生活列入其诗歌创作的对象。由寒山诗所描述的禅修以及寒山得以安居于寒岩之中所依靠的简单的劳动技能,斯奈德找到了荒野劳作与禅修之间的联结点。斯奈德和寒山都向自然寻求归宿,而在斯奈德看来,传统手工劳动技艺是人类得以栖居荒野、回归自然并与之和谐相处的根本。《砌石与寒山诗》使得栖居美国荒野的劳动者斯奈德跨越时空地将隐居避世的诗僧寒山接纳为与自己类似的荒野劳动者,同时也将自己的劳作之道视作禅修,故而这部诗集本质上可看作禅意浓厚的荒野劳动礼赞,斯奈德也由此表达了其对于自然的深刻和独到的理解。

In Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems , Gary Snyder frequently writes about the manual labor workers and their workin the wilderness. Snyder creates a bond between the labor work in the wilderness and Zen practice through HanShan s poems. Both his Zen meditations and simple manual labor work support himself when dwelling in thewilderness. Both Snyder and Han Shan turn to nature and wilderness that can be the ultimate residence for them,whereas Snyder considers the traditional manual labor skills as the premise of dwelling back in the wildernessharmoniously. This collection offers a chance that makes Snyder, a worker in American wilderness, recognize andaccept Han Shan, a hermit Zen poet in ancient China, as a fellow worker like himself regardless of their wide span oftime and space;meanwhile, Snyder categorizes his own practice of manual labor skills into the framework of HanShan s Zen practices. Therefore, this collection of poems can be regarded as a hymn of manual labor skills with Zenmeditation.