Category: Haiku

The flash of insight

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A lightning flash:

between the forest trees

I have seen water.

Shiki Masaoka – (1867-1902)

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“All spiritual teachings are about one thing – what it is to be fully and positively human – in the world, with others.

This we do in relation to that Whole – out of which we each are an infinitesimally small, temporary, wave-form.

We live in order to awake to that mysterious Whole, overcome ego and learn to serve better – ‘Awake; De-egotise; Serve’  – That’s it!   But we need to start somewhere.  And simplicity is better than complexity.

We can (re)start right now with Thích Nhất Hạnh Zen Buddhist master’s teaching on mindfulness; ‘Smile: Breathe and Go slowly/consciously’ – try it!  Instant success is built in from the first smile.  Its’ irresistible!

The rest is a matter of cultural clothing & historical accident of birth.  

True religion helps, false religion hinders –  in getting the realizations needed.” – RP

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Share your questions or insights on these or any other issues via ‘comments’

Namaste – Roger

Dr Roger Prentice

PS The secret of life it seems to me is in the haiku above.

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Wilber aphorisms

To take nourishment rapidly, as in the beautiful explosion of a great Haiku or short Zen poem,

furuike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no oto
the old pond / a frog jumps in– / water’s sound [1686]   Wiki

I am putting together some of my favourite short Wilberisms – aphorisms if you like, more direct than concepts.

SFB = The Simple Feeling of Being pub. Shambhala

Blocked emotions

 …when we rest as ever-present Witness, we are not in time.  p248

Every form of mditation is bsically a way to transcend the ego, or die to the ego.  p148.

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts.  To  understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole.  Sch is the circle of understanding.  p200

When I am not an object, I am God.  When I seek an object, I cease to be God, and that catastrophe can never be corrected by more searching for more objects. p249

The entire Kosmos exists as a network of rights and responsibilities correlative with degrees of depth and consciousness.  p200

The block is released when feeling-attention can flow through that area in a full and perfectly unobstructed fashion on its way to infinity. p119

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