After reading several poems from Man’yoshu, I strongly feel the great influence of Buddihim which is presented in those poems, especially some poems of Yamanoue Okura.
In his poems, he mentioned the emotion of helplessness many times, for instance, “our helplessness in this life,” “I am living in this world and cannot hold time back,” “the cold leaves me helpless,” “is it so helpless and desperate , the way of live in this world?” “…but I cannot fly away-I am not a bird.” Through reading these words, do you feel helpless? Do you have the feeling of helplessness because you have no alternative when you are suffering?
The suffering idea in Okura’s poems comes from the Buddhism view of suffering. The notion of suffering conveys that the birth, the old age, the sickness, the death, the separation, the anger, the covetousness and the pain of human beings are unavoidable. For Buddhists, they believe that suffering is a pragmatic belief which inhibits people’s desire and assists people to receive the real happiness in their life.
People never can be satisfied in their life time. Pursuit of enjoyment is what we can reach if we know how to deny the pursuit of unrealistic.
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