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12/27/2009

WKD - Yellow Sand (koosa)

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Yellow sand 　黄砂 (こうさ) koosa
from the Gobi desert, blowing over to Japan

kigo for all spring
in Japan

tsuchifuru, bai 霾 (つちふる, ばい) "it is raining earth"
koojin banjoo 黄塵万丈（こうじんばんじょう）
"yellow dust/sand is whirling high up in the sky"
(The translations falling dust / dirt rain seem a bit problematic for these yellow sand storms.)

mookoo kaze 蒙古風（もうこかぜ）Mongolian wind
baiten 霾天（ばいてん）heaven full of yellow sand
baifuu 霾風（ばいふう）wind with yellow sand, sand strom
..... tsuchikaze つちかぜ

yonagumori 霾晦（よなぐもり）"cloudy with earth"
..... tsuchigumori つちぐもり
..... yonabokori よなぼこり

kosa kitaru 胡沙来る（こさきたる）yellow sand coming
kosa aru 胡沙荒る（こさある） yellow sand is wild

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shunjin 春塵 (しゅんじん) spring dust
haru no chiri 春の塵（はるのちり）
harubokori 春埃（はるぼこり）dust in spring (hokori)
sajin arashi 砂じんあらし（さじんあらし）storm of sand
suna-arashi, sunaarashi 砂あらし（すなあらし）
sand storm

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gelber Sand
Phänomen, wenn Löss aus China vom Wind aufgewirbelt und verbreitet wird.

distribution of yellow sand in February 2009

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A dust storm / sand storm is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

Asian Dust (also yellow dust, yellow sand, yellow wind or China dust storms) is a seasonal meteorological phenomenon which affects much of East Asia sporadically during the springtime months.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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cherry blossom time -
the yellow sand covers
everything

in 2007

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黄砂　the yellow sand from the Gobi Desert
koosa, hwang sa
in April 2008

Although the mountain cherries are out now, we can hardly see them on the other side of the valley. This year is pretty bad ... in many parts of Japan. Korea is also severely experiencing this phenomenon, with red alert in many cities. And Peking, Mongolia ...

Yellow sand in Peking

the Scourge of the Gobi
Yellow Sand Alert in Korea External LINK

YELLOW SAND MONITOR External LINK

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Today again ... (April 18, 2006)

strong currents brought the yellow sand from the Gobi desert in China.
Yellow sand blows into Japan from deserts in China and Mongolia each spring, sometimes reaching Kyoto and impeding the visibility of things.

Yellow Sand in Kyoto

On the other hand,
a Japan-China research team says yellow sand helps cool off the Earth.

The Gobi Desert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobi

yellow sand
drifts in the valley
ear, nose and throat

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Mongolian wind
in late december ...
climate changes

Gabi Greve, December 26, 2009

Strong currents brought it to many parts of Japan and also to my valley.

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Yellow sand was observed in wide areas of western Japan on Saturday in a rare winter occurrence of the phenomenon, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. It is the first time since 1993 that yellow sand has been observed in the nation in the month of December. The meteorological phenomenon, which usually occurs in spring, makes the sky hazy and reduces visibility.

Yellow sand was detected in Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Tottori, Hiroshima and other prefectures in western Japan. Visibility at many observation points in the prefectures was over 10 km, but it fell to 7 km in Tottori and 8 km in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. The sand is believed to have been carried from China by westerly winds, the agency said.
source : Japan Today, Dec. 27, 2009

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Ohaga, my Valley and Japan
March 20 / 21 of 2010

STORM 大荒れ

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March 20, 2010 at 10:10 am
A strong weather disturbance in Western China has hit Beijing with a huge sandstorm from the Gobi Desert. While Beijing suffers periodically from sand blown from the nearby desert, this is the most intense sandstorm to hit the capital city in years.

Experts said that affected by Mongolia cyclone, from Tuesday to Wednesday's afternoon, sandstorm covered most areas of northwest China and the northern and western areas of north China, including Beijing, together with five to seven degree strong wind.

An estimated 300 000 Tons of Sand Loaded on Beijing
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/beijing-hit-sandstorm-gobi-desert

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二荒山墨絵ぼかしに霾れり
Futaara san sumie bokashi ni tsuchi fureri

an ink painting
of Futarasan in all gradations -
it is raining sand

Matsuzaki Tetsunosuke 松崎鉄之介

. Futaara San in Nikkoo .

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. Mongolia Saijiki .

. YELLOW and haiku .

Haboob, sandstorm Arizona, USA

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7/03/2007

grains of sand

　
beach park -
these grains of sand look
really different

浜遊び　変わるがわるは　砂の粒　

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beach walk -
each grain of sand
looks different

You are of course right in remarking that we can not watch the sand closely whilst walking ... in Japanese, I use "hama asobi", playing at the beach, enjoying the beach, a kigo for summer.

Well, it was a leisure walk, not an exercise one, whilst I was taking lots of photos, bending down, on my knees most of the time. Closely watching the different kinds of grains, different colors and marvelling at the shapes. Their reflection of ths sunshine let them look like little diamonds at times.

Lunch taken whilst sitting in the sand showed us more of these miniature marvels, sticking to the fingers and food too ....

I would need a much better macro lens to capture these individual grains. Maybe next time.

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Of course the plain statement is just a cliche, since we all know that snowflakes and grains of sand are different.

We KNOW in our educated minds ... but how many of us grown-ups have really leisurely bent down to the sand, looked at it for a while and then experienced the difference of the sand grains really personally ?

It is nothing spectacular indeed, just another wheel invented again and again, if the inner child is out there to marvel at things.

.................... A friend remarked this :

.. your first line; it doesn't add much to the poem. if you were to come up with another first line to contrast or compare with the thoughts of lines 2 & 3 ...

Dear friend,
my first line includes the kigo and I do not want to change that. I am not a friend of forced juxtapositions, that do not fit the experience when the haiku was conceived. I do not like to add some kind of first line for the sake of special effects.
I do like the ordinary in haiku, after all, my daily life is quite ordinary, grin ...

By the way, today, after a long period of rain, maybe I paraphrase this (with a BIG smile)

rainy season -
these drops of rain look
really similar

Last night I watched a tea master explaining a bit of his WAY. While the visitor sits there in the small room of two tatami mats (not much bigger that a large cupboard), he holds his hands in his lap so that the thumbs touch lightly and tries to relax. In good time he will quieten down his heart and become aware of the small things around him, the simmering water cattle, the pattern of the tatami mats, the breath of his fellow tea friends ... and somehow the smallness of the room can transform to a large universe in his heart and mind ...
Once the judgemental mind is quiet, you can experience the whole universe in a small tea room ...

just one cup of tea
served the right way
enfolding universes

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scots translation:

daunerin the links -
ilka dottle o saun
leuks unalik

John McDonald

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Gabi, once I wrote:

each grain // thinks it is the sandcastle // the tide rises.

But now, while I'm inspecting each 'contrary' grain, I'll remember your good lines.
_Magyar

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Romanian translation:

plimbare pe plaja
fiecare graunte de nisip
arata altfel

Vasile Moldovan

WHW comments

Thank you all so much for your efforts !

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Observing snow falling
yuki no metsuki　雪の目つき

 Tea Ceremony Saijiki 茶道の歳時記　

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natsuyama ya yoku kumo kakari yoku haruru

summer mountains -
sometimes in the clouds
sometimes in sunshine

Takahama Kyoshi 高浜虚子

This is a haiku of extreme objectivity. There is a sense of spaciousness in it. I also like the fact that the observation takes place over a summer-long period of time. I like haiku that include a sense of time passing, if for no other reason than to confound those who cling to the notion that a haiku should only be about an "a-ha 'moment'."

Larry Bole
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translatinghaiku/message/1847

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a Malayalam translation

venal malakal -
palappozhum meghangalil
palappozhum soorya-prakaashathil

and a Sanskrit translation

greeshma parvathaani-
bahu-vaare megheshu
bahu-vaare soorya-prakaashe

Narayanan Raghunathan, India

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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts--
once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness--
simple tastes, a certain degree of courage,
self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all,
a clear conscience.

George Sand

and love of haiku ...

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9/16/2008

autumn sunset

autumn sunset ...
patterns of my life
in the sky

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autumn sunset ...
patterns of my life
in the sand

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autumn sunset ...
patterns of my life
in the water

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Shiraishi Sunset September 2008
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From 01 to 70.

Benten Island Album

白石島　遍路　Shiraishi Island Henro Pilgrimage 2006

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My Favorite Quotes to Enjoy with Haiku

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My Haiku Quotes / Part 2

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Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.

Muriel Strode

In our haiku life, the trail is of course marked by haiku!

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If we are to achieve a richer culture,
rich in contrasting values,
we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric,
one in which each diverse human gift
will find a fitting place.

Margaret Mead

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each human gift
each human haiku <>
full autumn moon

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The breezes at dawn
have secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.

Jalaluddin Rumi
http://www.khamush.com/

If you are fast enough, you can catch the haiku they are trying to tell you !

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You may be capable of great things,
But life consists of small things.

Tao and Smallness
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/2213

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Do not be small minded.
Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God,
when you should be asking for pure love
and pure knowledge
to dawn within every heart.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Great Swan by Lex Hixon

you might ask for a pure haiku once in a while ... :o)

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All sorrows can be borne
if you tell a story about them.

Karen Blixen

you can also write a haiku ...

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An autumn night -
don't think your life
didn't matter.

- Basho

More is here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/2268

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Don't be content with looking at a rose as beautiful flower.
Look at her with Love, so that she enters into your heart
and awakens other forces in your heart and soul.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

and then, compose a haiku ...

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As one can see
when the eyes are open,
so one can understand
when the heart is open.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Bowl of Saki

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/sufi/saki.html

and so one can write haiku
when the mind is open

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Always be on the lookout
for the presence of wonder.

E.B. White
Charlotte's Web
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/charlotte/

and of course, for the presence of haiku

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Appreciation of life itself,
becoming suddenly aware
of the miracle of being alive,
on this planet,
can turn what we call ordinary life
into a miracle.

Dan Wakefield
http://www.danwakefield.com/

turn life into a miracle with your haiku !

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Be contented with what you possess in life;
be thankful for what does not belong to you,
for it is so much care the less;
but try to obtain what you need in life,
and make the best of every moment of your life.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
Gayan

Make the best of it, and make a haiku of it.

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Stillness within one individual
can affect society beyond measure.

And from this inner stillness, a haiku emerges ...

oo oo oo

So much of modern life is a feverish anticipation
of future activity and excitement.

We have to learn to step back from this
into the freedom and possibility
of the present.

Fr. Bede Griffiths

and within that freedom find our daily haiku.

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Any place is sacred ground,
for it can become a place of encounter
with the divine Presence.

David Steindl-Rast
A Listening Heart
www.gratefulness.org/brotherdavid/bio.htm

And

it can become a place of encounter wiht a haiku !

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There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

how very true.

The conditionless joy of every moment !
The conditionless joy of every haiku !

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As irrigators lead water where they want,
as archers make their arrows straight,
as carpenters carve wood,
the wise shape their minds.

The Buddha

a poet shapes the words <> Haiku

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Each minute of life
should be a divine quest.

Paramahansa Yogananda
http://www.yogananda-srf.org/py-life/

each minute of life
could be a quest
for haiku

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Aim at the sun and you may not reach it;
but your arrow will fly far higher
than if you had aimed at an object
on a level with yourself.

-- F. Hawes

aim your haiku high
so it will fly higher
and higher and higher

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Any kind of expectation creates a problem.

We should accept, but not expect.
Whatever comes, accept it.
Whatever goes, accept it.

The immediate benefit is
that your mind is always peaceful.

Sri Swami Satchidananda
http://www.yogaville.org/

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When a haiku comes to mind, accept it ...
When no haiku comes to mind, accept it ...
(and do not call it * writers block * with negative feelings)

coming and going <>
to the haiku mind
no difference

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The source of a true smile
is an awakened mind.
Smiling helps you approach the day
with gentleness and understanding.

Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace Is Every Step

The source of a true haiku ...

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We need a renaissance of wonder.
We need to renew, in our hearts and
in our souls, the deathless dream,
the eternal poetry,
the perennial sense that
life is miracle and magic.

-- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973)
American Writer

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in your haiku life,
every moment is
miracle and magic

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Just once,
everything, only for once.
Once and no more.
And we too, once.

And never again.
But this having been once,
though only once,
having been once on earth -
can it ever be cancelled?

Rainer Maria Rilke

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A haiku is only once. Only now. Only you.

Do not waste your words.
Do not waste your life.
Do not waste your haiku.

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The little things?
The little moments?
They aren't little.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The little Haiku?
The short Haiku?
They aren't little !

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/1244

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I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.

-- Confucius (Chinese Philosopher) 551-479 B.C.

I compose a haiku
and
I know

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.. .. .. Freedom and Haiku
Musings by Gabi Greve, March 2005
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/1266

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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Robert Bresson

To make it visible, make a haiku about it.

the unseen
covered in words -
a new spring

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Happiness because...

You are not happy because you are well.
You are well because you are happy.
You are not depressed because trouble has come to you,
but
trouble has come to you because you are depressed.

You can change your thoughts and feelings,
and then the outer things will come to correspond,
and indeed there is no other way of working.

-- Emmet Fox

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there is a haiku because you are well
there is a haiku because you are depressed
there is a haiku because you are

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There are obviously two educations.
One should teach us how to make a living
and the other how to live.

-- James Truslow Adams

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there are also two ways to a haiku:
learn how to make a haiku
learn how to live a haiku life

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There is much satisfaction in work well done,
but there can be no happiness
equal to the joy
of finding a heart that understands.

-- Victor Robinsoll

That holds for haiku.
Sharing with friends who appreciate it, that is one of the joys of writing haiku.

Thanks to the Internet, these circles of friends are expanding rapidly !

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Aim at the sun and you may not reach it;
but your arrow will fly far higher
than if you had aimed at an object
on a level with yourself.

-- F. Hawes

http://www.clio.ne.jp/home/hara73/d33.htm

That is an interesting thought.
My Kyudo (Archery) Teacher would say:

.......................... Aim behind the target !

and the Kendo Teacher:

Batteling with five opponents, use your force as if they were seven.

Can we apply this to Haiku?

Write each haiku as if it was your last one !
There is no tomorrow to reach,
there is only NOW to write.

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........................................... my arrow flies
........................................... toward the sun

harukaze ya ...
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Nothing in the world is more valuable
than every moment of your life.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

if you come along such a valuable moment, a haiku is born.

every moment
a haiku is born <>
my precious life

................... here is a picture of a precious moment

Thanks for the picture go to Andy Goldsworthy.
Reference : Andy

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Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.
Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

right and left
left right
where they belong

:o)

December 2004

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To the dull mind all nature is leaden.
To the illumined mind
the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

.. .. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
http://www.transcendentalists.com/1emerson.html

the world burns
and sparkles with light -
a haiku is born

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A bird does not sing because he has an answer.
He sings because he has a song.

Joan Walsh Anglund

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/qu/blquangl.htm

this moment
just came along my way <>
catch the haiku

.. .. .. this song
.. .. .. just hang in the air <>
.. .. .. catch the haiku

my beautiful mountains
covered in first snow <>
just catch the haiku

December 2004
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/971

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Happiness makes up in height
for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

http://www.ketzle.com/frost/butterfly.html
http://www.ketzle.com/frost/

.. .. .. .. .. Haiku makes up in depth
.. .. .. .. .. what it lacks in length

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Oh, that my monk's robes were wide enough
to gather up all the people
in this floating world.

-- Ryokan, Zen monk
http://www.amie.or.jp/daruma/Ryokan.html

.. .. .. .. typhoon <>
.. .. .. .. in the folds of my robe
.. .. .. .. a bee hiding

My Typhoon Haiku
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/303

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No Money, No Buy

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied,
"I love to go and see all the things I am happy without."

Jack Kornfield
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

I love to go and see for free (maybe some PHOTO shopping) .

all things
I am happy without
but haiku

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In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that within me
there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus (1913-1960)
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/camus.htm

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Little by Little

However much concerned I was at the problem of misery in the world,
I never let myself get lost in broodings over it.
I always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a
little to bring some portion of it to an end.

Albert Schweitzer

http://www.schweitzer.org/english/aseind.htm

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Life is not holding a good hand;
Life is playing a poor hand well.

-- Danish proverb

May all the jokers be haiku !

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Fear Less, Know More

Nothing in life is to be feared,
it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more,
so that we may fear less.

Madame Marie Curie

http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html

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half moon half stone
eternity written in
sand

Photo Gallery of Japanese Zen Gardens
All photographs by Frantisek Staud

http://www.phototravels.net/kyoto/zen-gardens-index.html

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Living and Existing

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.

-- Jack London

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/

Writings of Jack London
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/

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Making Mistakes

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing.
They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

-- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

Ahh, he was a good friend in my youth, studying Chinese Philosophy at Heidelberg University...

http://www.wisdomportal.com/Enlightenment/WangYangMing.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/wangyang1.html

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What lies behind us and
what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.

-- William Morrow

Within us are all the haiku of the universe.

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Writing Excellent Haiku

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but rather we have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

-- Aristotle

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Here is just a short quote taken a bit out ouf context from a Buddhist teaching:

... you may find yourself wanting to do all sorts of things that do not bring happiness, just to fill up time somehow.
A fear of boredom kicks in and so one starts chasing all sorts of promises of happiness to the point that one never really comes home to oneself to acknowledge the riches within.

--- By Lama Shenpen Hookham
http://www.ahs.org.uk/sanghaspace/

Never write a haiku just to fill up some time.
Haiku is one of the riches within, you have to find it there
and let it surprise you from within.

.. .. .. .. .. .. snowing again <>
.. .. .. .. .. .. a rich heart
.. .. .. .. .. .. keeps me warm

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