Philosophy

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The self is not something that one finds.
It is something that one creates.

-- Thomas Szasz (1920-)
American Psychiatrist


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for haiku, it is often the other way round for me:

A haiku is not something that one creates.
It is something that one finds.

How about your haiku creation process ?

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Dear Gabi San,
Thanks you much for your continuous help to create.

With due honour to the American psychiatrist I may say that according Indian philosophy, our belief, the divine like the tao is already present in us and outside us. We have to contact it to find ourselves. A way of thinking it may be, as the modernist may say. but it is like is-ness, am-ness.

Now the next about Haiku as you invite, I have just penned these three lines-

Everything is there;
you have to put them in the
right place to create.

Warmly-
© Aju Mukhopadhyay, India, 2007


MORE
..... Philosophical Haiku ... from India



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autumn sunshine -
I find the right spot
to sit down



Nice Gabi San, yours too.
I have kept a copy of it- haiku out of philosophic discussion.
Warmly,
Aju Mukhopadhyay

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More thoughts on philosophical haiku as opposed to pure shasei haiku

After doing a little cursory research, it seems that the term 'philosophical', when applied to haiku, is a catch-all term for haiku which: have for subject matter an idea or concept; draw a moral; present or hint at a religious belief system; incorporate metaphysical elements; etc.

Larry Bole has more HERE !

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earthworm

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nothing new -
a listless earthworm
in slow motion







ミミズ鳴く　日々の暮らしもさりげなく




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Dear Gabi San,
Seeing your earthworm just now, I have just penned a haiku for you to add another flavour.


If we do our work
silently like an earthworm
the earth will be blessed.


© Aju Mukhopadhyay, India, 2007


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EARTHWORM, mimizu ミミズ　蚯蚓　みみず
ミミズ鳴く, mimizu naku, a kigo



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ten takashi

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high autumn sky -
a late mosquito
at my feet


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Clear Autumn Sky (ten takashi, Japan)
... high autumn sky, spacious sky


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sleepless night

autumn downpoor - the new roof drums a new melody

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More haiku about my
ROOF !



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aki matsuri

秋祭り autumn festival - a streak of sunshine on the priest

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Considering most of the day was rainy, the priest picked the right moment to read his prayers.



Autumn Festival (aki matsuri, Japan)



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First Snow

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初雪のお知らせありて　冨士の山









first snow
late on Mount Fuji ...
says the news








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It is 5 days later than a "normal" year and 1 day earlier than last season.


First Snow ... a KIGO


Fuji, Mt. Fuji, Fujiyama, Fujisan and haiku





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nadeshiko

撫子や nadeshiko ya wild carnation - the fragile features of this old courtesan

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歌麿の幻の肉筆画「女達磨図」
喜多川歌麿（１７５３～１８０６年）
They found the original of this old courtesan/Daruma
painting by Kitagawa Utamaro !!



Oiran to Daruma 花魁と達磨　
Daruma and the Courtesans (geisha)


Carnation, Nelke ... Wild Carnation (nadeshiko)




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Badgers Narrow Road

獣道　　kemonomichi autumn of the badgers ... their narrow road to the deep forest

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Basho / Oku no Hosomichi ... 2007



kemonomichi, the footpath of wild animals in our area ... this year, the badgers crossed the road from the forest to the field below, and left their dirty footprints all over the asphalt too after a night of rain.




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sun rays

sunrays cutting through the morning mist - spiders over graves sunrays cutting through the morning mist - no place for JUX

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JUX, or JUXT, an abbreviation often used for juxtaposition, an ingredient for haiku, especially loved by my American friends ...

For my German ear, JUX is something else .. or maybe not ? ??



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visitors

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Ryokan sweeping fallen leaves



waiting for guests ...
I sweep the path again
and again







. Ryokan san and Tamashima Daruma 　


. Ryokan Memorial Day 　



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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


. WKD - Ryokan Memorial Day . 　

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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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Daishizen

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Nature is great 大自然　daishizen






namu amida
sunshine is my friend
drought is my friend


nature is great
rain is my friend
typhoon is my friend


namu amida
life is my friend
death is my friend







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Higanbana

higanbana - finally you show your beautiful face HIGANBANA flowers for the autumn equinox this year they are more than two weeks later than usual. The ricefields, where they present a beautiful red frame to the yellow fields, are already cut and brown.

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Spider Lilies, cluster amaryllis (higanbana, manjushage) KIGO



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Dragonfly teacup

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teabreak -
a dragonfly hovers
over my cup



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She seemed quite to enjoy her little "steam bath"!


Dragonfly, a KIGO



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Woodpeckers

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these rotten trees ...
the woodpecker family
works overtime



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Many trees are rotting away here in our woods around the house. Maybe the typhoon of two years ago is finally showing its results as the half-uprooted trees struggle to survive. Or the tons of chemicals in the fields around the wood ...


This morning their frentic knock knock knock woke us up rather early ...




My WOODPECKER haiku !


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Shaka with beard

秋深し　髭をはやしたる　石仏 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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