Which of the Zen Buddhist concepts are reflected in haiku poetry?
A) All of life's events are worth preserving in verse and can be covered in seventeen syllables.
B) Life's greatest mysteries, in the hands of a master poet, can be explained in only seventeen syllables.
C) Most of humankind is incapable of understanding the world's great mysteries, unlike the great poets.
D) The hardest concepts in life to understand can never be understood, so true poets never need try.
E) The conviction that the greatest mysteries of life can only be stated but never analyzed.
E
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