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summer solitude -
two herons circle
to gain hight
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They are extremely beautiful
in contrast with the green walls of my valley !
They came in from the lowest entry to our rather small round valley and circled their way up, as they always do in the evening spin of the wind.
With the bamboo and forest so green, they were just beautiful, first seing their white backs way down, then at eye level and finally against the blue sky up high ... and off over the highest part of the valley to the next one ...
Heron (aosagi)
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6/04/2008
6/03/2008
Buzzard
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tea break ...
we watch a buzzard shit
from the telephone pole
He sat there for a while on the only pole amongst the rice paddies, then lifted his tail feathers, took a deep breath (so to say) and then squeezed a huge white load out, more than a meter behind himself ... where it then made its way toward the earth ...
Since this spring, we see him more often, trying to compete with the local tombi, the black milan.
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tea break ...
we watch a buzzard shit
from the telephone pole
He sat there for a while on the only pole amongst the rice paddies, then lifted his tail feathers, took a deep breath (so to say) and then squeezed a huge white load out, more than a meter behind himself ... where it then made its way toward the earth ...
Since this spring, we see him more often, trying to compete with the local tombi, the black milan.
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6/02/2008
Tanada Matsuri
| Tanada Matsuri - Rice Paddy Festival 棚田祭り ２００８  village festival - the smell of wild boar from the barbeque   tents in the park  |
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The wild boars have been rather a nuisance in the last few years, as you might remember me writing about them and the hunters quite often.
This hunter had brought the result of his winter activities and shared a delicious shashlik with all of the villagers.
Start the walk from HERE (16 photos) !
Tanada Photo Album
My Village Ohaga and the Tanada rice paddies
Ohaga Michi no Eki
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a sad smile
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rainy season ...
I begin this day
with a sad smile
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Kigo Hotline ...
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rainy season ...
I begin this day
with a sad smile
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Kigo Hotline ...
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5/31/2008
rainy season starts
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rainy season ...
a heavy downpoor
bumps on my dreams
rainy season ...
a heavy downpoor
bumps on my dreams
rainy season ...
time to surf for more
internet stories
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5/30/2008
Ichigo Ichie
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Ichigo Ichie 一期一会
One Time, One Encounter
Many people are easily bored with routines such as sweeping the floor, making a bed, or preparing a meal. The motto in the Japanese tea ceremony schools is ichigo ichie which means "one time, one encounter." Though all the intricate movements of the tea ceremony can be repeated, they are never the same.
For the Japanese, each moment is unrepeatable and special in its own right. Those who want to live the spiritual life would be wise to adapt this motto and apply it to everything we do. Cleaning the floor today is different from the time we did it a few days ago. The light in the room may be different or the velocity of our sweeping motion.
With ichi-go ichi-e, boredom is vanquished.
.. quoted from .. www.spiritualityandpractice.com/
One Time
One Encounter
One Haiku
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................................. ichi go ichi e
one life, one meeting
one chance, one meeting
one moment in the endless flow of time
"Treasure every meeting, for it will never recur."
"Be grateful for this never-to-be-repeated moment."
"We only have one chance
to enjoy this present moment."
© しのパパ
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Ichigo Ichie 一期一会
One Time, One Encounter
Many people are easily bored with routines such as sweeping the floor, making a bed, or preparing a meal. The motto in the Japanese tea ceremony schools is ichigo ichie which means "one time, one encounter." Though all the intricate movements of the tea ceremony can be repeated, they are never the same.
For the Japanese, each moment is unrepeatable and special in its own right. Those who want to live the spiritual life would be wise to adapt this motto and apply it to everything we do. Cleaning the floor today is different from the time we did it a few days ago. The light in the room may be different or the velocity of our sweeping motion.
With ichi-go ichi-e, boredom is vanquished.
.. quoted from .. www.spiritualityandpractice.com/
One Time
One Encounter
One Haiku
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................................. ichi go ichi e
one life, one meeting
one chance, one meeting
one moment in the endless flow of time
"Treasure every meeting, for it will never recur."
"Be grateful for this never-to-be-repeated moment."
"We only have one chance
to enjoy this present moment."
© しのパパ
More haiga are HERE !
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5/29/2008
BACKUP
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a haiku
just for the moment ...
no backup
Data can be lost on the Internet at any time !
So
I advise you all to take private copies or a print-out of your favorite pages of the World Kigo Database, since you (and certainly I) knever know when it will be gone one day ...
GABI
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a haiku
just for the moment ...
no backup
Data can be lost on the Internet at any time !
So
I advise you all to take private copies or a print-out of your favorite pages of the World Kigo Database, since you (and certainly I) knever know when it will be gone one day ...
GABI
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5/26/2008
darkness between
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googeling ...
the darkness between
my ignorance
quote
the darkness between the stars
is a tone poem/haiku in which I tried to invoke the darkness/void/loneliness of deep space; out where there is nothing. 99.9999+ percent of the universe is an empty lonely place.
while I was writing this piece I imaged myself floating in the darkness of deep space billions of miles from any other being, billons of miles from even just another object, with just the faint dots of stars everywhere in the black void.
source : (2005) by Ed Sharpe
inspired by some friends poems ...
starry night the darkness between fireflies
Bill Kenney
(Published in Acorn #20)
source : www.magnapoets.com
googeling ...
"the darkness between" haiku
Mason Jennings The darnkess between the fireflies
Waking in the Darkness Between Us
the darkness between the stars
In the Darkness Between Worlds
"The Darkness Between" by Jeremy Minton
"The Darkness Between You And Me"
and so on googeling ...
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googeling ...
the darkness between
my ignorance
quote
the darkness between the stars
is a tone poem/haiku in which I tried to invoke the darkness/void/loneliness of deep space; out where there is nothing. 99.9999+ percent of the universe is an empty lonely place.
while I was writing this piece I imaged myself floating in the darkness of deep space billions of miles from any other being, billons of miles from even just another object, with just the faint dots of stars everywhere in the black void.
source : (2005) by Ed Sharpe
inspired by some friends poems ...
starry night the darkness between fireflies
Bill Kenney
(Published in Acorn #20)
source : www.magnapoets.com
googeling ...
"the darkness between" haiku
Mason Jennings The darnkess between the fireflies
Waking in the Darkness Between Us
the darkness between the stars
In the Darkness Between Worlds
"The Darkness Between" by Jeremy Minton
"The Darkness Between You And Me"
and so on googeling ...
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Yonago Temple Town
| peace for the world ! just some flowers by the temple gate  |
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Join me on my walk through
Yonago Temple Town
This "Peace Pole" stands in front of many temples in Japan and in other places.
So my haiku is just a bit of shasei, sketching what is in front of my eyes.
May Peace Prevail on Earth !
http://worldpeace.org/blog/?p=18
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5/25/2008
Azuma dancer
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this Azuma Dancer ...
she throws a quick kiss
at her patron
Azuma dance and more
Geisha Dances in Japan
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In line 1, I use the word THIS on purpse, to strengthen the idea of this special one, which I saw on TV the other night.
THIS can be used to translate a cut marker, and here it would be YA at the end of the line.
It is not just any dancer (Azuma dancer, an Azuma dancer, the Azuma dancer) ... as line 1 would read otherwise.
After the cut, the haiku continues with the same image. It is therefore in the "ichibutsu jitate" tradition of Japanese haiku.
The CUT in Japanese Haiku
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this Azuma Dancer ...
she throws a quick kiss
at her patron
Azuma dance and more
Geisha Dances in Japan
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In line 1, I use the word THIS on purpse, to strengthen the idea of this special one, which I saw on TV the other night.
THIS can be used to translate a cut marker, and here it would be YA at the end of the line.
It is not just any dancer (Azuma dancer, an Azuma dancer, the Azuma dancer) ... as line 1 would read otherwise.
After the cut, the haiku continues with the same image. It is therefore in the "ichibutsu jitate" tradition of Japanese haiku.
The CUT in Japanese Haiku
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5/22/2008
sound of water
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summer evening -
the gentle dripping
from my well
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summer evening -
the gentle dripping
from my well
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5/20/2008
mukade
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pulling weeds ...
a centipede hides under
the stone Buddha
This Buddha is rather a small statue in a corner of my garden and when I lifted him up to clear away the weeds, there was a huge centipede there, grinning at me !
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The messenger (retainer) of the deity Bishamonten was thought of as a centipede!
Bishamon and the Centipede
Daruma Museum
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pulling weeds ...
a centipede hides under
the stone Buddha
This Buddha is rather a small statue in a corner of my garden and when I lifted him up to clear away the weeds, there was a huge centipede there, grinning at me !
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The messenger (retainer) of the deity Bishamonten was thought of as a centipede!
Bishamon and the Centipede
Daruma Museum
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5/19/2008
rainbow body
| spring sunshine - the pure energy of this rainbow body  |
A rainbow body (Chinese: 虹光身 / 光蘊身; Cantonese: Hong Gworng Sun / Gworng Whun Sun; Tibetan language: Jalü or Jalus (Wylie 'ja' lus ) is a body not made of flesh, but consists of pure light.
Besides secret and unrevealed scriptures, the rainbow body is also mentioned in some Mahayana Sutras, for example, Mahayana Secret Sublime Sutra (大乘密嚴經, Taisho Tripitaka 0681, 0682) says:
They had therefore achieved the Wisdom Concentration, and acquired Mind-Created Bodies, which are adorned with mighty supernatural powers. Such bodies are free of any interspaces, bones, or substances, they are like the sun and the moon, like rainbows, electricity, finest gold, luminous pearls, Sphatikas, Pravadas, Hridaras, Campakas, Pavonine Flowers and Moons, and the images from mirrors.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
More about the Rainbow Body
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My friend send me this beautiful postcard from India.
Look at some more
Medicine Buddha of Tibet
A very special Daruma from Tibet
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5/14/2008
bright moon
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my storehouse burned down-
nothing obstructs my view now
of the bright moon
Masahide, 政秀 Zen poet
the thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window
Ryokan 良寛
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MORE ABOUT
Mizuta Masahide 水田 正秀
(1657-1723)
MORE of my
Quotes with HAIKU
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my storehouse burned down-
nothing obstructs my view now
of the bright moon
Masahide, 政秀 Zen poet
the thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window
Ryokan 良寛
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MORE ABOUT
Mizuta Masahide 水田 正秀
(1657-1723)
MORE of my
Quotes with HAIKU
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5/07/2008
Pregnant spider
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first bonfire -
a pregnant spider
runs for her life
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Today we opened the season with the first bonfire outside in the fireplace.
The season is just beginning ...
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first bonfire -
a pregnant spider
runs for her life
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Today we opened the season with the first bonfire outside in the fireplace.
The season is just beginning ...
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