With regard to attitude towards life, people tend to reminisce the past, worry about the future, and have no time for the present. Phe’s poems assert that all things past are in fact bygones and we cannot practically do anything about the past and the future is yet to come and will come, anyway; and that the only thing that exists and is real is the present.
What we can do is take time and enjoy what the world has to offer: nature, love, care, respect, and togetherness in the 'here and now.” - Professor Thai Van Nguyen, Philadelphia, PA. The poetry reflects Phe’s background in the Vietnamese culture. Many poems describe aspects of his family and of his hometown in Vietnam. Several compare and contrast the virtues and the vices of both cultures. Phe particularly describes, with exquisite visual imagery in words, his impressions of the two cultures in which he has developed... Phe shows us, through his poems, the worldview of the Bodhisattva: one who rejects the calm of nirvana in order to assist other people to discover Buddhism in this world.
Phe particularly emphasizes his distaste of our societies, both East and West, as we toss garbage into our environment. He compares that to the way in which our corporate society treats individuals as garbage as well. His abhorrence of this practice is evident, which goes along with his personal development of karuna, or compassion. - Helen Alexander, Sacramento, CA
- Author: Phe Xuan Bach
- Paperback.
- Pages: 167 .
- Dimensions: Height 9' x Width 6' x Thickness 0.4'.
- Weight: 13.2 ounces.
