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early summer morning
I am
all the birds
autumn sunset
I am
all the colors
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early summer morning
I am
all the birds
autumn sunset
I am
all the colors
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my . MORNING . haiku
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Philosophy or not ?
Instead of regarding Heaven as great and admiring it,
Why not foster it as a thing and regulate it?
Instead of obeying Heaven and singing praise to it.
Why not control the Mandate of Heaven and use it?
Instead of looking on the seasons and waiting for them,
Why not respond to them and make use of them?
Instead of letting things multiply by themselves,
Why not exercise your ability to transform [and increase] them?
Instead of thinking about things as things,
Why not attend to them so you won't lose them?
Instead of admiring how things come into being,
Why not do something to bring them to a fun development?
Hsun Tzu, Han-Dynasty period
quote from
A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
Wing-Tsit Chan
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963
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10 comments:
Joyful verse it puts a lightness in my heart.
I cant offer anything of an opinion or an answer to your query so I hope to learn something here and will follow with interest.
Best T.
The four Aphorisms of Vedanta are known as the Mahavakyas, or the great truths
Pragnanam Brahman - Consciousness is Brahman
Tat twam asi - That thou art
Ayam Atman Brahman - This Self is Brahman
Aham Brahmasmi - I am Brahman
snip
You are the consciousness in all, that is what this mahavakya says and your haiku echoes it.
Lovely! The profound in simplicity!
I very much like the simple philosophy - there are mornings where just the sheer joy of being there makes you feel part of it.
Of course if the poet were not there to observe it - would it exist?
In my opinion this is an internal haiku, allowing the reader to experience the emotion felt.
Very enjoyable to contemplate Gabi - thanks A.
Very nice Gabi
B.
Wonderful feeling in your poem Gabi san.
Nice thread, esp RE Indian origins vis a vis Buddhist awareness and haiku.
B.D.
Hello, Gabi san,
A lovely haiku
It reminds me of a book I read in which Ayurvedic practices in medicine were compared to theories in unified-field physics.
Have you heard of the "Theory of Everything"?
What's sad is if you read about it from the western end of things, there are references to ideas going back to the Ancient Greeks, but no mention of eastern philosophies at all. And yet this book I read convinced me that there is great correlation.
neko
The Perennial Philosopy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy
Gabi
> early summer morning
> a different bird song
> from every leaf
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> Michael Baribeau
Gabi,
I have no problem with the break with tradition. It gives the verse a certain freshness. The poem made me think of J. Krishnamurti's 'I am the world and the world is me'. Thanks.
K.
No philosophy needed for the beauty of this to come through. Or is that a philosophical observation?
B.NY.
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