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This haiku is a deep reflection on the truth of reality, which is by nature transient and fleeting. When we are unable to accept this truth we become distressed. However, recognition of this truth could at least bring a sense of poignancy to all of us human beings, who inevitably experience and witness it. There is even an aesthetic of this recogni
... See morePatricia Donegan • Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
the world is too full to talk about.
ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
The Last Sky
Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
Season of Glass
‘spring passes
and one remembers one’s innocence
summer passes
and one remembers one’e exuberance
autumn passes
and one remembers one’s reverence
winter passes
and one remembers one’s perseverencethere is a season that never passes
and that is the season of glass’– Yoko Ono ’80
In the utter darkness
Of a moonless night
A powerful wind embraces
— Bashō
Soon this short verse sprang free from renga and began to articulate aesthetic qualities, such as a sense of beautiful aloneness (sabishisa) and restrained elegance (furyu).
Sam Hamill • The Pocket Haiku (Shambhala Pocket Library)
sick on my journey ,
my dreams go wandering
on this withered field
Matsuo Basho, Death Haiku, 1694