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10/24/2010

empty mind

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empty mind ...
I wonder who is chatting

inside




My Japanese sensei used to say

Empty your heart and mind completely, and receive the haiku as a present into this emptiness.
You can not MAKE a good haiku happen, it has to make itself through your empty mind.
Do not try to be witty or poetic or "deep" or anything ... just let nature do the talking through you.



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Selflessness
Bruce Ross

If affective perception determines much of haiku feeling, selfless perception often determines how haiku consciousness exists. For this reason Robert Spiess, the long-time editor of Modern Haiku, preferred the term "feeling" (senses centred on nature, aware) to "emotion" (very strong subjective feeling centred on non-rational mind) when discussing haiku poetics.

At the most basic level the personal "I" is usually left out of haiku. Basically, the personal "I", the Freudian ego and its mental constructs, let us say its emotion, gets in the way of the haiku experience. Empirical procedures and rational thinking that determine the Western mind also get in the way.

The Zen Buddhist idea of an empty mind, the openness to phenomenological presence, is suggestive of an appropriate mental climate.

A Zen saying explains the situation: "One thought follows another without interruption. But if you allow these thoughts to link up to a chain, you put yourself in bondage".

How does one not get bogged down in thought and experience haiku consciousness? A haiku by Kai Falkman offers a response:

the skier stops
to leave room
for the snow's silence


The first two lines of this poem describe the cessation of what Zen Buddhists call the "monkey mind", a continuous flow of thought. Enlightenment or clear mind, the present-tense clarity of perception, cannot occur when the monkey mind is present.
In effect one must clear one's mind to allow things to speak for themselves.
The phenomenological reduction, the skier stopping, accomplished, the snow, its silence, can speak for itself. Here the personal "I" is not used. The poet, his will, is not stopping the skis. The snow's silence is. The "I" is not what is important. What is important is the snow's silence. The stopping is a mere notation leading to the snow's silence. In many ways this poem becomes an evocation of a kind of enlightenment experience.

A monk asked Li-shan: "What is the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from the West?"
"There is no ‘what' here," said Li-shan.
"What is the reason??"
"Just because things are such as they are," replied Li-shan.

- Zen mondo

source : The Essence of Haiku
By Bruce Ross. autumn 2007



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googeling at random


The Empty Mind is not just for martial artists, but for anyone who wishes to improve themselves both spiritually and physically

Amazon.com: The Empty Mind: Ueshiba Moriteru

The beginner’s mind is an open mind, an empty mind, a ready mind,

An Open Mind is not an Empty Mind.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.


Empty Mind. Musings, observations, rantings and commentary by a libertarian Christian Zen Master.

Taoist Art. Learning to be free in the empty mind.


... an empty mind goes a long way toward ensuring a full pocketbook.

one of the basic things that individuals can do to improve the quality of their "thinking" is to have an empty mind.

MySpace profile for empty mind with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more.


Empty Mind gifts from the CartoonStock directory


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ZEN KOAN METHOD
Empty your Mind and enter in tune with the Cosmic Mind
Lao Tzu Chapter 11


11.Usefulness of Emptiness
Empty your Mind


Thirty spokes are united in one hub (to make a wheel);
But the usefulness(the function) of the wheel depends on the empty space- the center hole of the hub.
Clay is molded into a vessel or a bowl
But it is the empty space within that makes it useful.

Doors and windows are cut out of the walls of a house,
But it is the empty (open) space inside that makes it useful (livable) .

Therefore take advantage of what exists (what the mind receives),
But use the emptiness (to open a way to enter in tune with the Cosmic Mind).



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frieden und freude
zerplatzen . . .
zen zen zen





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10/18/2010

Daruma Dew

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Daruma Dew -
a fresh drop for
each morning








. The Buddhist Channel -
Dharma Dew




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5/03/2010

wordless smile

  
  



spring is here !
three wordless smiles
by the roadside



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One of Buddha's disciples
reveals his enlightenment through
a 'wordless smile.'


This smile was passed along until the Bodhidharma (Daruma san) brought it to China, where the smile was transformed into thundering laughter.


Alan Watts called haiku “the wordless poem”.

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10/04/2009

Amida no namida

  
  




02 cedar tree tears



古杉や涙涙の南無阿弥陀


old cedar tree -
namida namida no
namu amida





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namida means tears in English.


Namu Amida ... The Amida Prayer



This tree is more than 1000 years old!
It stands in the precincts of our temple

. 両山寺 Temple Ryoosan-Ji  




old cedar tree -
with tears in my eyes
I pray to Amida




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Tear, tears (namida) Japan. Träne, Tränen


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6/26/2009

all the birds

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early summer morning
I am
all the birds




autumn sunset
I am
all the colors




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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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2/06/2009

Buddha in Light

  
  



winter sunset -
half of my Buddha
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winter sunset -
a little pink hope
for tomorrow
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http://haikuandhappiness.blogspot.jp/2010/12/winter-sunset.html


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10/28/2008

dream

  
  











autumn morning ...
the four sleepers
still in my dream






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四睡図 / 黙庵霊淵

Original
The Four Sleepers
attr. to Mokuan Reien, 14 C. Muromachi




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6/29/2008

almost missed

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looking for fireflies ...
I almost miss
the dramatic night sky




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A friend suggested to leave out the"dramatic" .

I am rather fond of adjectives lately ... grin...

this was not just any dark night sky, it was one with thunderclouds racing in many layers of gray like spotlights and would make a haiku in itself to discribe it.
I want to make sure, using the adjective, that it was a very special night sky and I did not realize it in the beginning because I was focussed looking below in my valley for the fireflies. Only when I looked up I saw what I was missing there ...


looking for fireflies ...
I almost miss
the night sky

that gives me a much more quiet evening which I experience most often, but not the drama of the other night.

Maybe another adjective would work ?
Then he suggested:


looking for fireflies
I almost miss
the thunderclouds



thanks so much for your help, B.


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2/10/2008

Salt and Happiness

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Salt and Happiness

An aging Hindu master grew tired of his apprentice complaining, and so, one morning, sent him for some salt. When the apprentice returned, the master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.

"How does it taste?" the master asked.

"Bitter," spit the apprentice.

The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake, and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, "Now drink from the lake."

As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the master asked, "How does it taste?"

"Fresh," remarked the apprentice.

"Do you taste the salt?" asked the master.

"No," said the young man.

At this, the master sat beside this serious young man who so reminded him of himself and took his hands, offering, "The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. . . .

Stop being a glass. Become a lake."

Mark Nepo in

The Book of Awakening




Salt Lake

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a glass of water
a glass of salt
a glass of haiku




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12/27/2007

roses and clouds

  
  




03 roses in foreground



sea of clouds -
my roses breathe
so carefully



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06 roses and clouds







frost melting
on my roses -
the beauty of NOW




07 frost melting






winter roses -
each petal has
its own spark



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The Art of Meditation in Taoism

Contemplative Taoists will be happily to sit with yogis and Zennists for as long as is reasonable and comfortable, but when nature tells us that we are 'pushing the river' we will get up and do something else, or even go to sleep...

... or even write a haiku ...

Basically, Taoist meditation is more like a sort of wisdom achieved by close observation of the things and phenomena in the world surrounding us. Such wisdom should help us go alongside with things and not against them, and is surely related to the wu-wei (nondoing) concept.
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12/26/2007

Long Moment

  
  



winter morning -
the long moment
from dark to light




  
  



  
  




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winter morning -
this long moment




  
  

from dark


  
  

to light




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Version THREE


  
  



winter morning -
this long moment




  
  

from birth


  
  

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woke up too early today, enjoying the warmth in bed while staring at the window ...



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12/16/2007

Haiku Seeds Haiku Flowers

  
  




haiku flowers -
Japanese seeds
for the whole world




For Taisen Deshimaru
who brought Zen seeds to France




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Taisen Deshimaru (birth name: Yasuo Deshimaru) (1914-1982) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. Born in the Saga Prefecture of Kyushu, Deshimaru was raised by his grandfather, a former Samurai before the Meiji Revolution, and by his mother, a devout follower of the Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism.

He received dharma transmission from Master Yamada Reirin.

In 1967, Deshimaru came to Europe and settled in Paris in order to fulfill his master's wish and spread the teachings of Zen. In the 1970's, his mission grew and he received dharma transmission from Master Yamada Reirin and became kaikyosokan (head of Japanese Soto Zen for a particular country or continent) in Europe.

He trained many disciples, and was the catalyst for the creation of a multitude of practice centers. His teachings and multitude of books helped spread the influence of Zen in Europe and America, particularly of the Soto sect. He founded the AZI in 1970 and La Gendronnière in 1979. He died in 1982, after having solidly established Zen practice in the West.

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I learned this again from Deshimaru Sensei


haiku seeds are from Japan
but haiku flowers blossom
in the whole wide world




  
  










the flowers of haiku
in the whole world
Japanese seeds









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12/01/2007

Temple Tanjo-Ji

  
  



photo number 52: graves and momiji. CLICK to go to the Album START !




autumn deepens -
the unfettered beauty
of this Amida temple





34 breathtaking RED






autumn deepens -
the beauty of prayer
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DRAGON BRANCHES


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Amida Buddha


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Temple Tanjo-Ji in my neighbourhood
Temple Tanjo-Ji in Okayama
Saint Honen was born here !


Saint Honen, born at this temple ..
by Gabi Greve



Joodo Paradise where we meet again ..


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***** pickled radish, takuanzuke 沢庵漬
kigo for all winter

..... Takuan was a famous Zen Priest, who invented this dish. It is very popular. Zen monks are supposed to eat their slices of Takuan radish without making any noise. There are usually two slices on the plate, used to carefully clear out the bolws afer eating and then munching the Takuan in silence.
If you want to know the secret of eating Takuan in silence, contact me :o) !

The Unfettered Mind. by Takuan Soho



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11/29/2007

suspended leaf

  
  


like this leaf
suspended in mid-air -
namu amida butsu









一枚の落ち葉のごとし南無阿弥陀




南無阿弥陀仏





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南無阿弥陀仏
Namu Amida Butsu, the Amida Prayer



Click on the leaf !

It must have been caught in some spiders net, but as you can see, it is clearly FREE !


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11/25/2007

River Crossing

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女一人僧一人雪の渡し哉
onna hitori soo hitori yuki no watashi kana

one woman
one monk - river crossing

in the snow

Naitoo Meisetsu 内藤鳴雪
Tr. Gabi Greve




This reminds me of the Zen story

Monk carrying Woman across the River

Two traveling monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across. One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other bank. She thanked him and departed.

As the monks continued on their way, the one was brooding and preoccupied. Unable to hold his silence, he spoke out.
"Brother, our spiritual training teaches us to avoid any contact with women, but you picked that one up on your shoulders and carried her!"

"Brother," the second monk replied,
"I set her down on the other side,
while you are still carrying her."


Zen Stories


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From a discussion about haiku



a friend remarked :

..... the 'form/ technique' are the banks
that allow the river to flow.
The river could be the poem/ the creation/ the spirit.



Gabi wrote

I like the image of a river, that whirls and swirls ...
but in the end, if it looses its "banks",
ends up in the ocean of "short form poetry".



And we exchanged some quotes:



Creativity is the art of taking a fresh look at old knowledge


John E. Arnold





No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river
and he's not the same man.


Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535 – c. 475 BCE)


. Joys of Japan - 2012 .


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11/21/2007

Day Moon

  
  



day moon -
the clock has stopped
ticking





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day moon -
he looks for satori
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For a friend at the Zen Temple Sogen-Ji (Soogen-Ji 曹源寺) in Okayama.

Morning Dewdrops of the Mind

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satori,
Japanese for what is usually translated as "enlightenment in Zen".
I find the word .. enlightenment .. too long here in the haiku, it disturbs the smooth reading for me, so I use the Japanese.


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I wondered if the quotes add anything, although it's occurring to me that maybe it's a way to point out that "wrong" is sometimes a matter of perception...


Gabi

indeed, "right" and "wrong" ... they should be in quotation marks at any time ! to make us humans stop and remember who made these decisions ... grin ...


Is the sunshine right or wrong ?
Is the moonshine right or wrong ?


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cold winter wind
passing through
the day moon

etsuko yanagibori



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day moon --
a passing eagle blocks
my observation


Caxton Okoth, Nairobi


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10/05/2007

visitors

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Ryokan sweeping fallen leaves



waiting for guests ...
I sweep the path again

and again







. Ryokan san and Tamashima Daruma  


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Sweeping the mental path, polishing the dustless mirror ... the daily zen activities ...


And with the autumn leaves now falling, sweeping is a real activity. Checking for the most beautiful to entertain the visitors, sweeping, bowing down, looking at autumn colors, sweeping a bit more.

When all is clean, turn around, just to see another leaf fallen on the path ...


Ryokan with his broom ... my good friend ! Click on the little photo above.




sweeping the leaves
with a broom like old Jittoku -
again and again


Fallen Leaves and Jittoku


Kanzan and Jittoku 寒山拾得

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Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian experiences enlightenment while sweeping

Kanō Motonobu 狩野元信 Kano Motonobu (1476–1559)
kyoogen kyakuchiku 香巌撃竹

Kyōgen Chikan 香嚴智閑
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. . hatsubooki 初箒(はつぼうき)first (use of the) broom .
hakizome 掃初 (はきぞめ) first cleaning
... fukihajime 拭始(ふきはじめ)beginning to clean
... hatsusooji 初掃除(はつそうじ)
kigo for the New Year


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. hooki 箒 / ほうき Hoki, broom, Besen .
hookishi 箒師 making brooms in Edo
hookiya 箒屋 vendor of brooms

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10/02/2007

Shaka with beard

  
  




秋深し 髭をはやしたる 石仏



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meditation -
even the Stone Buddha
is growing a beard




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The Beard is ...
minomushi, "straw raincoat bug" a KIGO for haiku !



Maybe some remember him
with a KARL in his eye ... !

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Greetings, Gabi
I love this stone buddha. i remember that photo of it with the frog in its eye. and now to see the same buddha with a minomushi (bagworm) on its beard is so very funny. i'm so glad you shared your friend's wonderful humor :)
hugs, B.


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9/29/2007

autumn wind

  
  




秋風に吹かれて笑う地蔵かな
akikaze ni fukarete warau Jizoo kana









his smiling face
in the autumn wind -
Little Jizoo




blown by autumn wind
he is simply smiling ...
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The first fresh breeze after a hot day, finally!
Autumn is here in my valley!
It is a feeling of joy and relief that the hot and humid summer is over,
but
on the other side, it is a reminder of harder times to come soon, winter looming ...

akikaze, wind of autumn, carries a lot of meaning ...



Wind in various KIGO !


Jizoo Bosatsu (Kshitigarbha) 地蔵菩薩 and haiku




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8/24/2007

eternity

  
  


  
  








eternity -
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After the rain, there was just this long one thread stretching from the stones to the chair on the terasse, sparkling in late sunlight.

I should get a better camera, but I hope you will see the beauty anyway.




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