Zen influenced Haiku poems, Haikus are 17 syllable poems. Typically, 5 syllables for first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the 3rd line. Traditionally a haiku presents a pair of contrasting images, one suggestive of time and or a place, while the other is vivid, ephemeral observation. Help me write a haiku! Let's see who can write the best relating to Mahayana Buddhism!
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Haiku for Mahayana Buddhism?
Haiku for Mahayana Buddhism?
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Re: Haiku for Mahayana Buddhism?
i remember when i was young, in elementary school, and we had to write haikus
i wrote this one without knowing the buddhist significance of it:
what if life's a dream
where nothing is what it seems
i want to wake up
(something along those lines)
many years later when i got into buddhism and philosophy i made the connection and thought it was neat
i wrote this one without knowing the buddhist significance of it:
what if life's a dream
where nothing is what it seems
i want to wake up
(something along those lines)
many years later when i got into buddhism and philosophy i made the connection and thought it was neat
Re: Haiku for Mahayana Buddhism?
this life is a dream
nothing can be grasped or seen
where do you wake up?
nothing can be grasped or seen
where do you wake up?
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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White Lotus
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Re: Haiku for Mahayana Buddhism?
clouds, trees,
all i see is empty.
right here right now typing.
all i see is empty.
right here right now typing.
in any matters of importance. dont rely on me. i may not know what i am talking about. take what i say as mere speculation. i am not ordained. nor do i have a formal training. i do believe though that if i am wrong on any point. there are those on this site who i hope will quickly point out my mistakes.
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PadmaVonSamba
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Re: Haiku for Mahayana Buddhism?
7=5=7 is only in base 10.
If you write haiku in base 3 it's 12-21-12:
A day on Mars will stretch the five second food rule,
The blooming of a garden rose is missed by the snail who blinks at the very same time,
Haiku’s meter thus warped when composed in base three.
If you write haiku in base 3 it's 12-21-12:
A day on Mars will stretch the five second food rule,
The blooming of a garden rose is missed by the snail who blinks at the very same time,
Haiku’s meter thus warped when composed in base three.
EMPTIFUL.
An inward outlook produces outward insight.
An inward outlook produces outward insight.
Re: Haiku for Mahayana Buddhism?
counting syllables
trying to make a haiku
guess iv'e missed the point.
trying to make a haiku
guess iv'e missed the point.
An Autumn night---
Dont think your life
didnt matter
-Basho
Dont think your life
didnt matter
-Basho