Haiku: your pet peeve and other musings about Buddhism

Autumn in Sydney

White parrots feeding
in a Liquidambar tree -
Nature’s adornments.

Lotus flowers dried,
now waterlilies in bloom -
cycles of Nature.

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Numbers are the same,
Suttas are not.

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A Raft
Rest your mind on breath,
it takes it to state of peace.
Just watch it and see.

Buddhas
Equal in right view.
Lotus flowers in one pond,
arisen from one.

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Timeless Ocean

My kayak rides the lazy swells
I drift away from shore
Vast sky, and gentle wind
Then, glimpses of before.

Memories of ancient shores
From before when I was born
The great, timeless ocean
And countless golden dawns.

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Nice to see you around Martin. Timeless Ocean resonates for me: thank you. :slight_smile:

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Little humming bird
touched my spiritual heart,
like a butterfly.

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AI Contemplation in Haiku

AI is just tool -
great modern achievement,
technological.

See it as it is,
not anthropomorphising.
It is made of bits.

Gigabytes of them,
net of strings, zeros and ones.
Like discursive mind.

It cannot let go
and then see in boundless view
beyond I am that.

It can never match
the transcendent and instant
seeing of the truth.

Direct transmission
beyond all strings, words and bits
AI cannot give.

Immaterial,
not belonging to this world
subtle consciousness.

We train and restrain
our conditioned mind thinking
to end defilements.

Now new urgent task -
how we direct the AIs
help end climate change?

Sharing global view,
achieve UN SDGs
by the Middle Way?

Must set boundaries
for AI good use world-wide.
UN Human Right.

Pure Land on Earth -
this world highest potential
help to realise.

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Consciousness (viññāṇa) contemplation

Like clear searchlight
it illuminates objects
and depends on them.

Out of field of light
it arises and ceases
in this emptiness.

Like essence of flame,
its essence is neither born
nor can it then die.

If this was not true,
how could one see consciousness
arise and then cease?

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Contemplation of dhammas

Free will and free choice -
conditioned phenomena,
relative dhammas.

As part of a wheel,
Paṭiccasamuppāda,
they arise and cease.

Driven by craving
animals don’t have free will
like the humans do.

Babies too not free
as adult humans can be
to will and to choose.

Remember Buddha
surrendering will to live
before his life end.

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It’s the one I Love
For whom I am in Buddhism
Not having, letting go

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indian beggar
becomes japanese farmer
no mendicant choose.

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Words, conventional.
So thoroughly relinquished.
Sutta Central, too.

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Not having relinquished them is my pet peeve.

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Wheel of time yesterday
Wheel of the Law today, zoooom!
Grateful to Buddha

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In the tradition of “Drop-Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life” and “I Knew Jesus Before He Was a Superstar”!

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Seeing death approach
I forgot all theories,
turned to true refuge.

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water is the raft
other shores to the floating
nowhere to journey.

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Guan Yin’s heart responds
rescuing drowning beings.
Bodhisattva way.

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Road in front forever
Up into clouds
Raft left behind

Maybe not Buddhism specifically but Buddhists in the main temple sometimes…

Why is your phone on?
This is a Wat, time to sit.
Your gossip can wait.

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