10/30/2010

playing in the sky

  
  


Kanzan and Jittoku 寒山拾得


Kanzan:
Where shall we go to play?
To the mountains? To the river?

Jittoku:
Let us go right up to the sky !



Painting by 榊莫山 Sakaki Bakuzan



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遊べ世界の雲たちよ !

Visit from Nakamura Sakuo :
playing with the clouds



It all started with a rainbow at Sakai .

02 Sakai detail



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The first sunset

08 sunset clouds reeds



09 Ohaga sunset clouds



10 pink sunset clouds



autumn sunset
having played with clouds
in terraced rice fields

Sakuo


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54 Ryosanji sky clouds shadows



looking down the valley -
only clouds and
their shadows

Gabi




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70 pointing toward the sky



73 Ryosanji iwashigumo clouds sky END of Ryosanji





zigzag clouds -
a moment later
they are gone


71 zigzag clouds sky



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65 Ryosanji iwashigumo clouds sky





88 sky and tree




96 leaves sky clouds




95 fruit sky clouds




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playing with clouds -
the mystery of colors
and shapes




86 tanada flower clouds sky



84 shining flower again



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the last moment


G 102 last sky and clouds playing END







. Visit of Sakuo san
PHOTO ALBUM

You can take the Slide Show for each side.




Unfortunately my camera produced a dark spot in some images.

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With Nakamura Sakuo san, Red Leaves


Thank you so much, Sakuo san, for visiting our paradise and our valley.


. everyday Issa
Nakamura Sakuo




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The inspriation comes from Tanuma Takeyoshi,
田沼武能, a friend of Sakuo san.

遊べ子供たち


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10/29/2010

red leaves

  
  



G 100 red leaves backlight



autumn leaves -
a new collection
for every year



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G 99 leaves in evening sun




G 99 detail




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70 pointing toward the sky




autumn leaves -
the blue sky filled
with joy



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42 Takitani autumn colors




34 yellow leaf




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23 natural colors



Lady Murasaki
tries on her new robes -
just for me



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17 red autumn leaves














Take a walk with me :

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Laeves in all seasons
  





. Clouds playing in the sky
Visit of Nakamura Sakuo san




With Nakamura Sakuo san



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10/27/2010

first cold spell clouds

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sudden cold spell -
waiting for a friend
at the station



The weather has suddenly changed, over night, so to say.
Rain and cold wind from Siberia pound this side of Japan, while typhoon 14 is brewing in the south.

Hokkaido is expecting the first snow of the season.


And we plan to have dinner outside . . . ? !



Well, it was too cold for anything outside.
And now, on the morning of 27, it was just five degrees centigrade ... brrr ... and we will be shivering through a cold day.

Our friend is sketching the landscape.

We had some splendid sky formations over the mountains and tanada rice fields ... and a splendid sunset pink storm clouds raging in straight from Siberia ...


next morning


sudden cold spell -
I need another thick
blanket




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 . . . 遊べ 世界の雲たちよ 


89 dynamic sky and tree



. Clouds playing in the sky
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. Sakuo san visiting
Photo album - backwards
 



09 Ohaga sunset clouds


秋日暮れ棚田に雲と遊びたり


autumn sunset
having played with clouds
in terraced rice fields

Sakuo




Thank you so much for your visit, Sakuo san !

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10/24/2010

empty mind

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empty mind ...
I wonder who is chatting

inside




My Japanese sensei used to say

Empty your heart and mind completely, and receive the haiku as a present into this emptiness.
You can not MAKE a good haiku happen, it has to make itself through your empty mind.
Do not try to be witty or poetic or "deep" or anything ... just let nature do the talking through you.



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Selflessness
Bruce Ross

If affective perception determines much of haiku feeling, selfless perception often determines how haiku consciousness exists. For this reason Robert Spiess, the long-time editor of Modern Haiku, preferred the term "feeling" (senses centred on nature, aware) to "emotion" (very strong subjective feeling centred on non-rational mind) when discussing haiku poetics.

At the most basic level the personal "I" is usually left out of haiku. Basically, the personal "I", the Freudian ego and its mental constructs, let us say its emotion, gets in the way of the haiku experience. Empirical procedures and rational thinking that determine the Western mind also get in the way.

The Zen Buddhist idea of an empty mind, the openness to phenomenological presence, is suggestive of an appropriate mental climate.

A Zen saying explains the situation: "One thought follows another without interruption. But if you allow these thoughts to link up to a chain, you put yourself in bondage".

How does one not get bogged down in thought and experience haiku consciousness? A haiku by Kai Falkman offers a response:

the skier stops
to leave room
for the snow's silence


The first two lines of this poem describe the cessation of what Zen Buddhists call the "monkey mind", a continuous flow of thought. Enlightenment or clear mind, the present-tense clarity of perception, cannot occur when the monkey mind is present.
In effect one must clear one's mind to allow things to speak for themselves.
The phenomenological reduction, the skier stopping, accomplished, the snow, its silence, can speak for itself. Here the personal "I" is not used. The poet, his will, is not stopping the skis. The snow's silence is. The "I" is not what is important. What is important is the snow's silence. The stopping is a mere notation leading to the snow's silence. In many ways this poem becomes an evocation of a kind of enlightenment experience.

A monk asked Li-shan: "What is the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from the West?"
"There is no ‘what' here," said Li-shan.
"What is the reason??"
"Just because things are such as they are," replied Li-shan.

- Zen mondo

source : The Essence of Haiku
By Bruce Ross. autumn 2007



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ZEN KOAN METHOD
Empty your Mind and enter in tune with the Cosmic Mind
Lao Tzu Chapter 11


11.Usefulness of Emptiness
Empty your Mind


Thirty spokes are united in one hub (to make a wheel);
But the usefulness(the function) of the wheel depends on the empty space- the center hole of the hub.
Clay is molded into a vessel or a bowl
But it is the empty space within that makes it useful.

Doors and windows are cut out of the walls of a house,
But it is the empty (open) space inside that makes it useful (livable) .

Therefore take advantage of what exists (what the mind receives),
But use the emptiness (to open a way to enter in tune with the Cosmic Mind).



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zerplatzen . . .
zen zen zen





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10/19/2010

Daruma Sushi

  
  







Daruma Sushi -
an artistic touch
for my dinner














. WASHOKU
Daruma Sushi だるま寿司



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10/18/2010

spider

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bedtime -
an uninvited spider
sits on the wall



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Daruma Dew

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Daruma Dew -
a fresh drop for
each morning








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pine and gate

  
  



look at this pine !
a home is growing
fairytales



19 pine above the gate








. 亀甲 - Kamenoko in Okayama   


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Tamago Egg Festival

  
  

たまごまつり 
Egg Festival in Kamenoko



亀甲黄福通りに遊びに来てみんちゃい~
美咲町

2010年10月18日(日)10:00~15:00



06 tensui no sato tent



07 tensui vegetables


10 tensui no sato stamp

"Tensui no Sato" Club
A group of my village, Ohaga


. 天水の郷クラブ Tensui no Sato



20 Egg Festival Eggs


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写真集 






. Egg (tamago, ran 卵) and KIGO  


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10/13/2010

dear flower

  
  



dear flower -
please teach me to grow old
so gracefully




10 growing old gracefully









. My Lady Murasaki


. Yellow Orchids




04 clouds reflected

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Takitani Pond Album






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No one gets out of here alive.

although we all like to believe
we will be the exception,
our death is inevitable


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Lady Murasaki

  
  




22 colors of hope






Lady Murasaki
tries on her new robes -
just for me





23 natural colors








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. Murasaki the Color and Kigo

Genji Monogatari and Murasaki Shikibu ... 紫式部




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orchids

  
  




15 yellow orchids by the roadside




haiku TBA



17 two orchid faces




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25  three violet faces up END






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10/11/2010

ten past ten

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ten past ten -
a long minute
for a short wish





Today is the tenth day
of the tenth month in the year
two thousand and ten.




Sunday (10/10/10)
Sunday, October 10, 2010








Double Tenth Day in Taiwan
10/10 The national day in Taiwan,
the anniversary of the Wuchang rebellion of 1911.



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10/10/2010

Autumn Festival

  
  

02 autumn festival at Ichi no Miya Shrine




autumn festival -
ever more moss
on the pines




05 moss and stone




06 the pine stem




07 more moss








. Wadakita Autumn Festival 2010
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01 Wadakita Aki Matsuri .. Till Nr. 35


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9/28/2010

colors of hope Tanada

  
  




Tanada 01 higanbana till 05




before the storm -
all the colors
of hope




Tanada 04 just one yellow




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before the storm -
all the colors
of hope




Tanada 05 storm coming












TANADA 棚田 大垪和西

. Ohaga Nishi - the Terraced Rice Fields  



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