7/19/2008

very early morning

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cicadas, frogs 'n crows ...
the sounds of my valley
above the clouds



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The rainy season is over, but still the moisture of the nearby lake producing a "Sea of Clouds" in the early morning hours.

The scene of life below my window is breathtaking!


The photo is one of the evening delights.


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7/18/2008

first cicada

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tsuyu akete semi no koe no tani to naru
梅雨明けて 蝉の声の 谷となる



rainy season is over ...
my valley is swamped with
cicada shrills




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new eyes

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The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.




Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

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How very true about the voyage of a haiku poet !



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7/17/2008

Tantra

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Human mind naturally inclines to obtain what it does not have, seek knowledge of things ‘not known’. This mind disapproves Tantra for the Tantra takes off with the real, instinctive, inborn, inherent in nature, that is, ‘what is’, or ‘that which is the best known’ – the body, nature, desires or whatever.

... the Tantra accepts all actions as they are, transmuting them into inner awareness, and further into a creative evolution, all desires, into the vehicle of transcendence, and all energies, into the ultimate means of liberation.

,,, It identifies the ‘Being’ in the Being itself, not in its negation or non-acceptance, but rather in its fuller acceptance.


There is a great article at EXOTIC INDIA
http://www.exoticindia.com/article/tantric/




Somehow I feel it relates to haiku too ...
just accepting ... what is now ... and state it in simple words



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tantra ...
another word that leads me
to haiku



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A friend wrote:

The 'here and now' is actually the most difficult to observe because it requires concentration and acceptance. It's hard not to put layers of meaning on what actually is; we always want it to mean something else, so we never see the world as it is supposed to be seen. Much has been written about this very engrossing theme.

I'm thinking of something I read recently on 'shasei', and how it curbs active participation in poetry forums. Somehow, I think your topic on tantra touches on that as well. There is actually some participation going on, but not where one might usually expect it. Looking at the 'here and now' is, I think, a discipline in itself, an alternative to the habit of running away or overloading
a subject with meaning.

This will keep me thinking through the rest of the evening, and long after I go to bed.
Thanks for posting it here, Gabi.
WHCworkshop, July 2008



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The Chanda Maharoshana Tantra teaches us:

When you see form, look!
Similarly, listen to sounds,
Inhale scents,
Taste delicious flavours,
And feel textures.



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Tantra ~ Aphorisms Of Elucidations
by Narayanan Raghunathan, India



Tantra is the Key-word:
The Key to these affirmations.

Tantra questions everything:
Tantra believes everything too.
That is the irony of this projection.

If Maya is a magic veil,
Tantra seeks the magician behind
the veil, also the magic veil.

To Tantra, the world is a perfect sign language-scattered
symbols eternally reconstructing Shiva.

The most complex minds have
laboriously unearthed the simple minded
theorems of Tantra.

Be suspicious of Tantra:
But Tantra is no fool's paradise.

Read more here:
source :  Aum Infinite Cosmoses



The India Saijiki


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The Secret Tantra (haiku)

I wanted you to
heal my heart with tantric sex.
You did. You said, 'No.'


Marc Mannheimer Cleveland, USA


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7/15/2008

early morning

  





akeyasushi 明易し


dawn comes early -
this cool breeze
on my cheeks






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The nights are rather muggy these days, with temperatures not really getting much lower. The rainy season is hovering around with humidity and morning mist.

But this morning was different !




More about this kigo :
. . . Long day, short day, long night, short night





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7/13/2008

monsterlins

  
  


short night ... mijika yo
at the stroke of twelve
the monsters dance









rainy afternoon -
catching monsters and
a few ghosts






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Fudo stabbing a Monster Cat (bakeneko)


and

More Gongen caught this afternoon !



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healthy food

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healthy food
on our dinner table ...
life indeed



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It's been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish... all before making a human. He made and provided what we'd need before we were born. These are best and more powerful when eaten raw. We're such slow
learners...

God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!

God's Pharmacy! Amazing!

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food. ( Tomatoes are best when cooked that is why the are categorized as lipophilic- their nutrional
value increases when cooked. Doc)

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs.
Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.


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7/09/2008

bedsheet

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muggy night ...
the coolness of
new bedsheets





The Japanese have developed some kind of new material and weaving technique to make sheets keep you cool in summer ...



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7/08/2008

Tanabata

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Tanabata ya
another opportunity
missed





Star Festival (Tanabata, Japan) July 7

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7/06/2008

summer heat

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summer heat ...
my cat hides under
the silk carpet





Haiku kun sneaked into my cooled room and peeks out from under the fringes of the carpet ... fully knowing he is not supposed to be there ...




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7/02/2008

seeds

  
  




haiku -
picking the seeds
from real life







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7/01/2008

last day of june

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last day of June ...
the broad smile
of my healthy husband





. . . . Summer Purification Ceremonies in Japan
June 30






last night of june ...
wild boars trample
through the grove


they are back! in the bamboo grove!




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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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6/28/2008

dark night

  
  


dark night -
just one firefly
in the rain






we are expecting heavy rain this night ...







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rain again

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tsuyu sanaka, in the middle of the rainy season



rainy season ...
dark coulds huddle
below light clouds



rainy season ...
the green of the forest
deepens




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Here are a couple to add, Gabi.


as if silence
were enough . . .
the monsoon!




a groaning in the
jungle, that dragon
made of water


robert d. wilson



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