WKD - Karma

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it all started from here:

grasshopper
your fool !
the tea is still hot

Of course we enjoy the tea outside, with a few tiny frogs and other friends along on the table. This one was just too nosy. Ouch!

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This ku was first called “happy teabreak”
BUT
apart from a lighter touch, it made me think about KARMA,
the inevitable link between all events.

If I had been born Chinese, my teacup would have a lid and poor grasshopper would not have boiled his feet.

If a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazon jungle, we might end up with a taifun over here in Japan.

If the grasshopper was ment to hop in my teacup to meet his end there, well, what can I do about it but accept it with a haiku?

Has anyone ever explored the connection between haiku and karma?
I wonder?


The net of Indra comes to mind again, we were talking about it at WHCWorkshop a while ago.
Here is a great holographic version of Indra’s net :


http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/indras-net.html




And a great Tibetan Mandala version of Indras Net:


http://www.bremen.de/info/nepal/Gallery-3/Cosmos/9-1/Kosmos0.htm



Googeling around about the NET of Indra on the interNET of the human mind, I found a lot more, but just some LINKS, but check them only if you have a lot of time.
http://www.heartspace.org/misc/IndraNet.html



This is a little too much on the weird side but who knows.
http://www.sacredscience.com/store/commerce.cgi


Skydancer has a lot of interesting photos and text about many places in Japan too.
http://www.skydancers.com/main/sitemap.html




Indra’s NET or the interNET,

you can get lost googeling at it, in it ...
So for now, it is time to get out of the net and to the reality of making lunch.

Today is fish, caught in a hemp NET!


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The Buddha refused to deal with those things that don't lead to the extinction of dukkha (suffering). He didn't discuss them.

Take the question of whether or not there is rebirth after death.
What is reborn?
How is it reborn?
What is its “karmic inheritance”?

These questions don't aim at the extinction of dukkha. That being so, they are not the Buddha's teaching nor are they connected with it. They don't lie within the range of Buddhism. Also, the one who asks about such matters has no choice but to believe indiscriminately any answer that's given, because the one who answers won't be able to produce any proofs and will just be speaking according to his own memory and feeling.

The listener can't see for himself and consequently must blindly believe the other's words. Little by little the subject strays from dharma until it becomes something else altogether, unconnected with the extinction of dukkha.

source : - Buddhadasa Bhikkhu from "A Single Handful,"
Tricycle Winter 1996

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KARMA ...
I don't know wheather
I know



KARMA ...
the name of my cat is
HAIKU


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the last step
blending truth and falsehood
karma blooming

- Shared by Zaya Nergui, Mongolia -
Joys of Japan, 2012


. WKD : MONGOLIA SAIJIKI .

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