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Choiceless Awareness
Krishnamurti / Jiddu Krishnamurthy
To suspend judgment is difficult. To do so voluntarily, as a witness to one’s own thoughts, is the ‘methodless method’ called ‘mindfulness’ or ‘choiceless awareness’ that is used to achieve a meditative state. Choiceless Awareness is the closest there is to the stereotypical and uninformed impression that meditation is relaxation and letting go and doing nothing. Popularized by Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Indian philosopher and educator, it is the state of being fully aware of the moment without awareness being focussed on any physical or mental image/object/meditation object. It is the state of pure contemplation.
Step 1:
Remind yourself that you exist here and now.
Nobody can live in the past or the future, even though your existence in this world is the sum total of many aspects of reality and experience such as physical makeup, your cultural, social and educational background, thought, emotion, future ambitions etc. The attempt should be to accept life as it exists in the present moment - no matter how banal or stressful, it is all that you have.
Step 2:
Be aware of the activities going on in and around you in the moment.
From obvious and hidden bodily processes to the numerous physical, chemical and biological changes that are occurring simultaneously in the world outside your skin, observe everything.
Step 3:
Start doing everything with awareness.
This may be distracting to do, as it is recommended to be remembered while doing the most mundane, routine things, such as drinking water or walking, such as what you experience when you swallow or how your hands move while you walk.
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For a friend with problems.
To suspend judgment is difficult.
I think this is where in haiku the problem with personification comes in ... when we do NOT suspend judgement ...
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Here is some advise on suspending judgement
from Isabelle Prondzynski for the haijin of Kenya.
I shall concentrate on just one thing, which is observation. The haiku poet (in Japanese : haijin) just stands back and observes. There is no judgement -- the poet does not tell the reader whether something is nice or awful, but describes accurately what is there, leaving the feelings to the reader.
For instance :
scorching son
and running cloud
bad morning
Here, we have a good observation (scorching sun and running cloud) followed by a judgment (bad morning). As the reader is not given any clue, she or he cannot know why the morning is bad. There is heat and there is running -- so perhaps the morning is bad because someone has
run away in a fit of hot anger? It is better to say so, for instance :
scorching sun
and running cloud --
my wife left me
It is for the reader to judge that this is indeed a bad morning.
dark clouds
moving to west
uncertainly
Here too, the haijin is making a judgement, stating that the clouds are moving uncertainly. My response would be, how does he know? What has he observed? Could it be this :
dark clouds
moving to the west --
first raindrops
The next one is this :
cold weather
over mountain tops --
too humid
The "too humid" is a judgement. Let the reader judge. The haijin will give the reader the facts.
cold weather
on the mountain tops --
falling mist
And here, we get into a judgement praising something nice :
a bright glow
of the flowers abroad
pleasant sight
This too needs to be said through observation rather than judgement :
bright glow
of the flowers outdoors --
my smiling face
And here is a sad one :
children eating
dusty cabbage leaves
sad morning
The reader does not know where the sadness is coming from. Is it the cabbage leaves? Too dusty or too few? Is it another problem which the children are experiencing? Is it a problem which the writer is experiencing? The haijin has to make sure that the reader can understand. Haiku is constantly asking us to look, listen, smell, touch and taste :
children eating
dusty cabbage leaves --
funeral day
It is a funeral day. No one is looking after the children. They eat what they can find. It is a sad day, and now we know why.
Observation is needed here too :
Soweto weather
and poverty together
may God help
The statement here is general. What a haiku needs is a keen observation of a small and particular scene, which makes the reader understand that there is a general point to be made too.
chilly morning
people wear sweater
feeling cold
This haijin has assumed that the people are feeling cold, but that is his own judgement, and he may not be right! The observation could be like this :
chilly morning --
my brother is racing around
with his new sweater
Greetings to you all, Isabelle.
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3/16/2009
3/15/2009
spring sunshine
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spring sunshine
on the cat's belly -
mountain hermitage
Haiku kun is my best teacher.
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Cats in the Paradise Hermitage
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spring sunshine
on the cat's belly -
mountain hermitage
Haiku kun is my best teacher.
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Cats in the Paradise Hermitage
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3/14/2009
second spring storm
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haru no niban 春の二番
second spring storm -
the wind dances
with the roof
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haru no niban 春の二番
second spring storm -
the wind dances
with the roof
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3/09/2009
dead sparrow
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spring begins -
a dead sparrow
at my doorstep
Japanese Haiku -
how important it seems
to be different !
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haru ni naru . it becomes spring
Seasons beginning
Remembering a good friend.
And fierce discussions about English Language Haiku.
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spring begins -
a dead sparrow
at my doorstep
Japanese Haiku -
how important it seems
to be different !
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haru ni naru . it becomes spring
Seasons beginning
Remembering a good friend.
And fierce discussions about English Language Haiku.
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3/05/2009
seed syllables
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There is one for every Buddha in the Buddhist Pantheon.
They are also used to meditate on it.
There is also a special meditation called AJIKAN for the seed syllables.
Reference : ajikan
Seed sylable mandala 種字 曼陀羅
Reference : seed syllables
For my RENKU friends.
. Temple Jindai-Ji 深大寺 and Sanskrit
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seed syllables - the kigo seedlings begin to grow A seed syllable in a Japanese flower garland. |
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There is one for every Buddha in the Buddhist Pantheon.
They are also used to meditate on it.
There is also a special meditation called AJIKAN for the seed syllables.
Reference : ajikan
Seed sylable mandala 種字 曼陀羅
Reference : seed syllables
For my RENKU friends.
. Temple Jindai-Ji 深大寺 and Sanskrit
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3/04/2009
snow pheasant
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late snow -
a pheasant calls
in the morning mist
late snow -
tiny icicles lace
the old roof
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late snow -
a pheasant calls
in the morning mist
late snow -
tiny icicles lace
the old roof
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2/27/2009
late snow
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morning surprise -
deep frost covers
the window panes
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late snow -
the bamboo bows
deeply
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Some friends are quarreling in unexpected ways.
And snow keeps falling in the valley ...
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morning surprise -
deep frost covers
the window panes
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late snow -
the bamboo bows
deeply
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Some friends are quarreling in unexpected ways.
And snow keeps falling in the valley ...
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2/24/2009
first plum blossom
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first plum blossom -
I try to write haiku
without any fuss
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The idea and the last line in inspried from a friend.
So this is a lesson,
trying to write simple haiku without overt personification or more than one kigo and and and ...
Why argue about the use of language?
This is the approach eventually taken by Humpty Dumpty in "Alice in Wonderland"
all words mean
what one chooses them to mean ...
neither more nor less
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first plum blossom -
I try to write haiku
without any fuss
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The idea and the last line in inspried from a friend.
So this is a lesson,
trying to write simple haiku without overt personification or more than one kigo and and and ...
Why argue about the use of language?
This is the approach eventually taken by Humpty Dumpty in "Alice in Wonderland"
all words mean
what one chooses them to mean ...
neither more nor less
. . . Read my Haiku Archives 2009
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2/22/2009
coincidence
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dinner time
snow glides
from the roof - cheese melts
in my mouth
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dinner time
snow glides
from the roof - cheese melts
in my mouth
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clouds
cold rain ... the mountains turn canvas |
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A few days later, in response to a friend
early morning ...
my mountains grow invisible
with clouds
group/simply_haiku
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2/19/2009
sparrow and Buddha
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winter rain -
a sparrow shits
on my stone Buddha
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winter rain -
a sparrow shits
on my stone Buddha
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2/18/2009
crocus
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cold sunset -
the crocus shuts
its blossoms
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They are out since two days, even if it gets minus four centigrade in the morning.
Crocus KIGO
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cold sunset -
the crocus shuts
its blossoms
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They are out since two days, even if it gets minus four centigrade in the morning.
Crocus KIGO
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2/06/2009
Buddha in Light
winter sunset - half of my Buddha still in the light |
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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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2/04/2009
roof painting
painting the roof - spraying color - the smell lingers in the valley |
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Check all PHOTOS here ...
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2/02/2009
spring begins
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spring blossoms -
the old farmer
coughs blood
You met him and his blossoms before here
spring blossoms, here to be read as a verb ...
The Japanese Haiku Spring starts on February 4
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spring blossoms -
the old farmer
coughs blood
You met him and his blossoms before here
spring blossoms, here to be read as a verb ...
The Japanese Haiku Spring starts on February 4
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. . . Read my Haiku Archives 2009
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