Going deep,
I enter the pathway
of the god –
where transcendent, above all
in the wind of the pines.
~Saigyo (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)
Author: brenda
wpc: evanescent
Views…
Our Enemy
Our enemy wears the colors of ideology.
Our enemy wears the label of liberty.
Our enemy carries a fancy appearance.
Our enemy carries a big basked filled with words.
Our enemy is not man.
If we kill men, with whom shall we live?
~Pham Day (Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names)
…views themselves are ideas or perceptions. Any perception has two parts: a viewer (subject) and that which is being viewed (object). A self view, a person view, a living-being view, and a life span view are all objects of perception. They are neither independently existing or permanent. Like everything else, they are of the nature of interbeing.
~Thich Nhat Hanh, The Diamond that Cuts through Illusion
scattered
Unable to sleep,
I gaze at the flowers of the bush clover,
as the dew forms on them from the long night,
till suddenly before dawn
they are scattered by the wind.
~Ise Tayu (K Rexroth & I Atsumi, The Burning Heart)
No reset…
Each time we say or do something, write a line of poetry, disseminate an idea, send a letter, we go out in many different directions. Once we have set out in these directions, there is no way we can pull ourselves back to the place we were before.
~Thich Nhat Hanh (Understanding our Minds)
black & white sunday: music
singing insects, too
make music
in this world
~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)
I love being drawn by the music that fills the air as one wanders about town on a Sunday afternoon. Image submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s Sunday photo challenge.
consciousness
“…when consciousness manifests, it is not, at that moment, born. When it does not manifest, it does not, at that time, die. When consciousness manifests, there is differentiation and discrimination (vitalpa). Discrimination says, ‘this is self, and that is other than self.’ It is the sword that cuts and divides what is self from what is not self. But discrimination is not the truth. It is an imaginary construction, a fabrication of the mind. The Chinese ideogram for the term vitalpa means ‘universal comparing.’ To compare is to say, ‘This is inside, but that is outside. This continues to exist, but that ceases to exist.'”
~Thich Nhat Hanh, Understanding the Mind
lost in thought
The colors of the flowers fade
as the long rains fall,
as lost in thought,
I grow older
~Ono No Komachi (K Rexroth & I Atsumi, The Burning Heart)
spring night dream
The floating bridge
of my spring night dream
has broken away
and lifting off a far peak –
a cloudbank trailing in the sky.
~Fujiwara no Teika (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)
spring snow
an early spring –
sent back into seclusion
by morning snow
~Socho (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)
serene
For a heart serene
there is no scattering
of blossoms.
~Satomura Joha (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)
passing through
No grieving!
Our waking world, too,
is a spring dream.
~Oka Kosetsu (S Carter, Haiku Before Haiku)
a meditative journey 
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