Here are the last two questions on the interview:

4 Any advice on writing haiku?

All the adages you’ve already heard, apply. Please study what the masters studied but do not imitate. Show, don’t tell. Over the tongue, 1,000 times (meaning, edit). And so on.

One night, I was talking with Shu-Un Mitsuzen Lou Hartman, a venerable Zen priest who practiced at Tassajara, and Green Gulch, and City Center. (Full disclosure: he knew I’ve offered haiku workshops at Green Gulch and City Center.)

Haiku can’t be taught, he said.

After long silence, I asked him to please continue.

Smiling faintly, he continued.

Haiku can’t even be written. That is, the moment you put into words on paper what had somehow become an experience in your heart, haiku gets one, razor-thin slice away from that. Then, when you read it, another razor-thin slice away. If you try to teach it, still…