This book is about emptiness and silence—the mind-expanding emptiness of Zen painting, and the reverberating silence of haiku poetry. Through imaginative participation in the visions of painters and poets, its readers are led to the realization that, in the author's words, «emptiness, silence, is not nothingness, but fullness. Your fullness.»<br><br>This cultural tradition has informed many distinguished lives and works of art. The work of painters like Niten, Liang...