Monday, July 22, 2013

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Do not dwell in the past

do not dream of the future,

concentrate the mind


on the present moment.



Thich Nhat Hanh



concentrate your mind

on the present haikuAfter silence,

that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music.



Aldous Huxley



. . . . . that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible,

is haiku"It does not require many words to speak the truth."



Archie Fir Lame Deer, Lakota



it does not require

many words to write -

haikuFor me, the essence of a medicine man's life is

to be humble,

to have great patience,

to be close to the Earth,

to live as simply as possible,

and

to never stop learning.



Archie Fir Lame Deer, Lakota



sounds like the essence of a haiku poet's life . . .We are all flowers in the Great Spirit's garden.

We share a common root, and the root is Mother Earth.

The garden is beautiful

because it has different colors in it,

and those colors

represent different traditions

and cultural backgrounds.



Grandfather David Monongye (Hopi)



different colors

different traditions

different haikuSlow down and take the time to really see.

Take a moment to see what is going on

around you right now, right where you are.

You may be missing something wonderful.



J. Michael Thomas



take the time

to really see

this haikuPainting is silent poetry,

and (but) poetry is painting that speaks.



Die Malerei ist schweigende Poesie,

aber Poesie ist Malerei, die spricht.



Plutarch



painting a poem

with silent words -

haikuHappiness

is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves.

It is not something we see, like a rainbow,

or feel, like the heat of a fire.

Happiness is something we are.



John B. Sheerin



happiness -

something we are

with haikuAnything that is given can be at once taken away.

We have to learn never to expect anything,

and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.



John McGahern



haiku -

a gift on loan

in time and spaceIf we learn to open our hearts,

anyone, including the people who drive us crazy,

can be our teacher.



Pema Chodron



this shrieking bird

drives me crazy -

haiku teacherWatch your thoughts; they become words.

Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habit.

Watch your habits; they become character.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.



Lao Tzu



watch your words - they become haiku !The Old Man said,

`you are both ugly and handsome and you must accept your ugliness as well as your handsomeness in order to really accept yourself."My Grandfather told me one time

that any person who is judgmental to another is also judgmental to themselves.

If we want to be free of being judgmental,

we need to first work on how judgmental we are to ourselves.

If we quit judging ourselves and start accepting ourselves as we are,

we will start accepting others as they are.

Then we will experience a level of new freedom.my haiku -

both ugly and handsome

and then someDo not anticipate trouble or worry

about what may never happen.

Keep in the sunlight.



Benjamin Franklin



keep in the sunlight -

find a haiku

right thereWe spend most of our time and energy

in a kind of horizontal thinking.

We move along the surface of things

going from one quick base to another,

often with a frenzy that wears us out.



We collect data, things, people, ideas,

"profound experiences,"

never penetrating any of them. . . .



But there are other times.

There are times when we stop.

We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory.

We listen

and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.



James Carroll



a pile of leaves -

a new world begins

to whisperIf you want to stand out,

don't be different,

be outstanding.



Meredith West



if you want to write good haiku

don't try to be different,

be outstandingIn the measurement world,

you set a goal and strive for it.

In the universe of possibility,

you set the context and let life unfold.



Benjamin and Rosamund Zander



in the world of haiku

you disappear

and let the seasons unfoldWhen one is prey to one's emotions,

one is not one's own master.



Baruch Spinoza



In that case better not write a haiku

until you are the master of your emotions

and can leave them behind to observe nature.The older I grow,

the more I listen to people

who don't talk much.



Germain G. Glidden



The older I grow,

the more I listen to people

who write haiku.So I prayed, but I had to pray from my heart.

All of my concentration and thoughts

went from my head to my heart.

All of my senses

- hearing, smell, taste, and feeling -

were connected to my heart.



Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA



The heart is the gateway to the Unseen World, to the Spirit World.

It takes real concentration to do this.

To connect to our own heart is also a mental state.

It starts in the head and transitions to the heart.

This mental state is our inner stillness.

Be still and know.

This place of the heart is very joyous and peaceful.

It is this place that we become one with God, our Creator.



Elder's Meditation of the Day - September 29inner stillness -

then write haiku

from the heartReal development

is not leaving things behind,

as on a road,

but drawing life from them,

as from a root.



Gilbert Keith Chesterton



DRAWING LIFE

FROM THE ROOTS OF HAIKU -

ORA GA HARU



Ora ga haru, My Spring, by IssaThe man who lies to himself

is the quickest to take offense

to the opinions of others.



Fydodor Dostoyevsky



This reminds me of the many "haiku wars"

about opinions on HOW TO !Listen to all the teachers in the woods.

Watch the trees, the animals, and all living things -

you'll learn more from them than from books.



Joe Coyhis, STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE



and then

write a haiku about what you learned !If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,

if a blade of grass springing up in the fields

has power to move you,

if the simple things of nature have a message

that you understand,

rejoice, for your soul is alive.



Eleonora Duse



rejoice, for you can write a haiku !You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.

Each day is a different one,

each day brings a miracle of its own.

It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.



Paulo Coelho



. . . . and then, write a haiku about it !



each day

has a different color !

trust in NOWAnyone who keeps the ability

to see beauty

never grows old.



Franz Kafka



Anyone who keeps the ability

to write haiku

never grows old.You see things as they are;

and you say "Why?"



But I dream things

that never were;

and I say "Why not?"



George Bernard Shaw



why not haiku ?What is a weed?

A plant whose virtues

have not yet been discovered.



Ralph Waldo Emerson



what is a haiku?

a poem whose virtues

are yet to be discovered

or maybe are already discovered ?Look at everything

as though you were seeing it

either for the first or last time.

Then

your time on earth will be filled

with glory.



Betty Smith



my first haiku

my last haiku

my haiku nowNature tops the list

of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers.

The mere sound of moving water

has been shown to lower blood pressure.



Patch Adams



- the sound of water

- the healing sound of moving water

- the sound of haiku



Natural Healing Properties of Tranquil Flowing Water



at amazon.comLet us be of good cheer,

remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear

are those which never happen.



James Russell Lowell



a haiku never experienced

a haiku never written

and yet - a haikuSome people

are making such thorough preparation

for rainy days



that they aren't enjoying

today's sunshine.



William Feather



today's rain

today's sunshine

today's haikuLife begins as a quest of the child

to become a man or woman and

ends as a journey by the man or woman

to rediscover the child.



Laurens van der Post



to rediscover the child

discover haikuUse what talents you possess;

the woods would be very silent

if no birds sang

except

those that sang best.



Henry Van Dyke



use

what talents you possess -

write your haikuLife is a great and wondrous mystery,

and the only thing we know that we have for sure

is what is right here right now.

Don't miss it.



Leo Buscaglia



Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia Ph.D.

(31 March 1924 - 12 June 1998)

also known as "Dr Love," was an author and motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.

... Buscaglia worked actively to overcome social and mental barriers that inhibited the expression of love between people, from family to acquaintances to people with disabilities, the institutionalized, and elderly, to complete strangers, often making his own forwardness on the subject a topic of self-deprecating humor.



Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past,

with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done

(both utterly useless and weakening)

or

in a future which we either long for or dread. . . .

There is only one minute in which you are alive,

this minute, here and now.

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

Which is exactly what it is --

a miracle and unrepeatable.



Storm Jameson



Margaret Storm Jameson

(8 January 1891 - 30 September 1986)

was an English writer, known for her 45 novels, and criticism.Every thing or living being that exists in this world,

be it trees, flowers, birds,

grasses, rocks, soil of the earth,

or human beings,

has its unique manner of existence -

its essence, its spirit that makes it what it is.

That is what is meant by connectedness.Scientists are finally realizing what the Elders have taught for thousands of years - everything is connected. Because everything is interconnected, whatever you do to any one thing, you do to everything. If you poison any part of the earth, the poison eventually affects everything else.

If you poison the plants, the birds will eat the plants, which poisons the birds. The birds are eaten by humans which poisons the humans. The humans will have babies who could be deformed because the plants were poisoned. We must learn to live in harmony with the earth. We must learn to think good things.



Every good thought is felt by everything, which causes everything to be happy.



Let us write Happy Haiku Today!One does not need to fast for days

and meditate for hours at a time

to experience the sense of sublime mystery

which constantly envelops us.



All one need do is to notice intelligently,

if even for a brief moment,

a blossoming tree,

a forest flooded with autumn colors,

an infant smiling.



Simon Greenberg



to notice intelligently

to notice more intelligently

to notice a haikuCreativity is inventing, experimenting, growing,

taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes,

and having fun.



Writing haiku is - - -

inventing, experimenting, growing,

taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes,

and having fun.If we could see the miracle

of a single flower clearly,

our whole life would change.



the Buddha



The moment one gives close attention

to anything, even a blade of grass,

it becomes a mysterious, awesome,

indescribably magnificent world in itself.



Henry Miller



a single flower

a blade of grass -

a haiku day"What day is it,?" asked Pooh.

"It's today," squeaked Piglet.

"My favorite day," said Pooh.We must learn that we cannot be loved by all people.

That is the ideal.

In the world of people, it is not often found.

We can be the finest plum in the world,

ripe, juicy, sweet, succulent and offer ourselves to all.



But we must remember

that there will be people who do not like plums.



he likes me

he likes me not -

pickled plumsThere are days

when you don't have a song in your heart.

Sing anyway.



Emory Austin



There are days

when you don't have a haiku in your heart.

Find a haiku anyway.grasping at a thought

grasping at nothing

Kent Dorsey



there're days

when you don't find haiku in your heart

I'll read one for you ...

Hideo Suzuki



there are days

when it's cold in the kitchen

I rise to find haiku

Geoff Sanderson



Joys of JapanThe teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you

to enter the house of his wisdom

but rather leads you to threshhold of your mind.



at the threshhold

of my mind I find

- haikuThe opposite of a fact is a falsehood,

but the opposite of one profound truth

may very well be another profound truth.



Niels Bohrobserving nature -

the profound truth

of haiku
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