(01) Haiku and Happiness: August 2004

8/08/2004

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My Favorite Quotes to Enjoy with Haiku

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How people treat you is their karma;
how you react is yours.

A Buddhist Saying

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Fear Less, Know More

Nothing in life is to be feared,
it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more,
so that we may fear less.

Madame Marie Curie

http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html

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It is not that you must be free from fear.
The moment you try to free yourself from fear,
you create a resistance against fear.
Resistance, in any form, does not end fear.

What is needed, rather than running away
or controlling or suppressing or any other
resistance, is understanding fear; that means,
watch it, learn about it,
come directly into contact with it.

We are to learn about fear,
not how to escape from it,
not how to resist it through courage and so on.

J. Krishnamurti

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Let us not pray
to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.

Muriel Strode

In our haiku life, the trail is of course marked by haiku!

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If we are to achieve a richer culture,
rich in contrasting values,
we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric,
one in which each diverse human gift
will find a fitting place.

Margaret Mead

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each human gift
each human haiku <>
full autumn moon

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The breezes at dawn
have secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.

Jalaluddin Rumi
http://www.khamush.com/

If you are fast enough, you can catch the haiku they are trying to tell you !

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You may be capable of great things,
But life consists of small things.

Tao and Smallness
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/2213

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Do not be small minded.
Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God,
when you should be asking for pure love
and pure knowledge
to dawn within every heart.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Great Swan by Lex Hixon

you might ask for a pure haiku once in a while ... :o)

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All sorrows can be borne
if you tell a story about them.

Karen Blixen

you can also write a haiku ...

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An autumn night -
don't think your life
didn't matter.

- Basho

More is here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/2268

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Don't be content with looking at a rose as beautiful flower.
Look at her with Love, so that she enters into your heart
and awakens other forces in your heart and soul.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

and then, compose a haiku ...

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As one can see
when the eyes are open,
so one can understand
when the heart is open.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Bowl of Saki

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/sufi/saki.html

and so one can write haiku
when the mind is open

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Always be on the lookout
for the presence of wonder.

E.B. White
Charlotte's Web
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/charlotte/

and of course, for the presence of haiku

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Appreciation of life itself,
becoming suddenly aware
of the miracle of being alive,
on this planet,
can turn what we call ordinary life
into a miracle.

Dan Wakefield
http://www.danwakefield.com/

turn life into a miracle with your haiku !

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Be contented with what you possess in life;
be thankful for what does not belong to you,
for it is so much care the less;
but try to obtain what you need in life,
and make the best of every moment of your life.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
Gayan

Make the best of it, and make a haiku of it.

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Stillness within one individual
can affect society beyond measure.

And from this inner stillness, a haiku emerges ...

oo oo oo

So much of modern life is a feverish anticipation
of future activity and excitement.

We have to learn to step back from this
into the freedom and possibility
of the present.

Fr. Bede Griffiths

and within that freedom find our daily haiku.

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Any place is sacred ground,
for it can become a place of encounter
with the divine Presence.

David Steindl-Rast
A Listening Heart
www.gratefulness.org/brotherdavid/bio.htm

And

it can become a place of encounter wiht a haiku !

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There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

how very true.

The conditionless joy of every moment !
The conditionless joy of every haiku !

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As irrigators lead water where they want,
as archers make their arrows straight,
as carpenters carve wood,
the wise shape their minds.

The Buddha

a poet shapes the words <> Haiku

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Each minute of life
should be a divine quest.

Paramahansa Yogananda
http://www.yogananda-srf.org/py-life/

each minute of life
could be a quest
for haiku

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Aim at the sun and you may not reach it;
but your arrow will fly far higher
than if you had aimed at an object
on a level with yourself.

-- F. Hawes

aim your haiku high
so it will fly higher
and higher and higher

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Any kind of expectation creates a problem.

We should accept, but not expect.
Whatever comes, accept it.
Whatever goes, accept it.

The immediate benefit is
that your mind is always peaceful.

Sri Swami Satchidananda
http://www.yogaville.org/

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When a haiku comes to mind, accept it ...
When no haiku comes to mind, accept it ...
(and do not call it * writers block * with negative feelings)

coming and going <>
to the haiku mind
no difference

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The source of a true smile
is an awakened mind.
Smiling helps you approach the day
with gentleness and understanding.

Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace Is Every Step

The source of a true haiku ...

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We need a renaissance of wonder.
We need to renew, in our hearts and
in our souls, the deathless dream,
the eternal poetry,
the perennial sense that
life is miracle and magic.

-- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973)
American Writer

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in your haiku life,
every moment is
miracle and magic

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Just once,
everything, only for once.
Once and no more.
And we too, once.

And never again.
But this having been once,
though only once,
having been once on earth -
can it ever be cancelled?

Rainer Maria Rilke

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A haiku is only once. Only now. Only you.

Do not waste your words.
Do not waste your life.
Do not waste your haiku.

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The little things?
The little moments?
They aren't little.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The little Haiku?
The short Haiku?
They aren't little !

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/1244

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I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.

-- Confucius (Chinese Philosopher) 551-479 B.C.

I compose a haiku
and
I know

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.. .. .. Freedom and Haiku
Musings by Gabi Greve, March 2005
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/1266

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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Robert Bresson

To make it visible, make a haiku about it.

the unseen
covered in words -
a new spring

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Happiness because...

You are not happy because you are well.
You are well because you are happy.
You are not depressed because trouble has come to you,
but
trouble has come to you because you are depressed.

You can change your thoughts and feelings,
and then the outer things will come to correspond,
and indeed there is no other way of working.

-- Emmet Fox

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there is a haiku because you are well
there is a haiku because you are depressed
there is a haiku because you are

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There are obviously two educations.
One should teach us how to make a living
and the other how to live.

-- James Truslow Adams

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there are also two ways to a haiku:
learn how to make a haiku
learn how to live a haiku life

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There is much satisfaction in work well done,
but there can be no happiness
equal to the joy
of finding a heart that understands.

-- Victor Robinsoll

That holds for haiku.
Sharing with friends who appreciate it, that is one of the joys of writing haiku.

Thanks to the Internet, these circles of friends are expanding rapidly !

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Aim at the sun and you may not reach it;
but your arrow will fly far higher
than if you had aimed at an object
on a level with yourself.

-- F. Hawes

http://www.clio.ne.jp/home/hara73/d33.htm

That is an interesting thought.
My Kyudo (Archery) Teacher would say:

.......................... Aim behind the target !

and the Kendo Teacher:

Batteling with five opponents, use your force as if they were seven.

Can we apply this to Haiku?

Write each haiku as if it was your last one !
There is no tomorrow to reach,
there is only NOW to write.

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Nothing in the world is more valuable
than every moment of your life.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

if you come along such a valuable moment, a haiku is born.

every moment
a haiku is born <>
my precious life

................... here is a picture of a precious moment

http://cgee.hamline.edu/see/goldsworthy/gold_icestar.gif

Thanks for the picture go to Andy Goldsworthy.
http://cgee.hamline.edu/see/goldsworthy/see_an_andy.html

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Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.
Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

right and left
left right
where they belong

:o)

December 2004

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To the dull mind all nature is leaden.
To the illumined mind
the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

.. .. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
http://www.transcendentalists.com/1emerson.html

the world burns
and sparkles with light -
a haiku is born

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A bird does not sing because he has an answer.
He sings because he has a song.

Joan Walsh Anglund

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/qu/blquangl.htm

this moment
just came along my way <>
catch the haiku

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.. .. .. just hang in the air <>
.. .. .. catch the haiku

my beautiful mountains
covered in first snow <>
just catch the haiku

December 2004
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/971

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Happiness makes up in height
for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

http://www.ketzle.com/frost/butterfly.html
http://www.ketzle.com/frost/

.. .. .. .. .. Haiku makes up in depth
.. .. .. .. .. what it lacks in length

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Oh, that my monk's robes were wide enough
to gather up all the people
in this floating world.

-- Ryokan, Zen monk
http://www.amie.or.jp/daruma/Ryokan.html

.. .. .. .. typhoon <>
.. .. .. .. in the folds of my robe
.. .. .. .. a bee hiding

My Typhoon Haiku
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/303

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No Money, No Buy

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied,
"I love to go and see all the things I am happy without."

Jack Kornfield
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

I love to go and see for free (maybe some PHOTO shopping) .

all things
I am happy without
but haiku

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In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that within me
there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus (1913-1960)
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/camus.htm

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Little by Little

However much concerned I was at the problem of misery in the world,
I never let myself get lost in broodings over it.
I always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a
little to bring some portion of it to an end.

Albert Schweitzer

http://www.schweitzer.org/english/aseind.htm

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Life is not holding a good hand;
Life is playing a poor hand well.

-- Danish proverb

May all the jokers be haiku !

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half moon half stone
eternity written in
sand

Photo Gallery of Japanese Zen Gardens
All photographs by Frantisek Staud

http://www.phototravels.net/kyoto/zen-gardens-index.html

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Living and Existing

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.

-- Jack London

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/

Writings of Jack London
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/

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Making Mistakes

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing.
They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

-- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

Ahh, he was a good friend in my youth, studying Chinese Philosophy at Heidelberg University...

http://www.wisdomportal.com/Enlightenment/WangYangMing.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/wangyang1.html

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What lies behind us and
what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.

-- William Morrow

Within us are all the haiku of the universe.

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Writing Excellent Haiku

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but rather we have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

-- Aristotle

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Here is just a short quote taken a bit out ouf context from a Buddhist teaching:

... you may find yourself wanting to do all sorts of things that do not bring happiness, just to fill up time somehow.
A fear of boredom kicks in and so one starts chasing all sorts of promises of happiness to the point that one never really comes home to oneself to acknowledge the riches within.

--- By Lama Shenpen Hookham
http://www.ahs.org.uk/sanghaspace/

Never write a haiku just to fill up some time.
Haiku is one of the riches within, you have to find it there
and let it surprise you from within.

.. .. .. .. .. .. snowing again <>
.. .. .. .. .. .. a rich heart
.. .. .. .. .. .. keeps me warm

8/05/2004

Kawahigashi Hekigoto

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Kawahigashi Hekigoto 河東碧梧桐
(1873-1937) 1873年02月26日～ 1937年02月01日
Kawahigashi Hekigodo, Hekigotoo, Hekigodoo

日本の俳人。1873年（明治6年）愛媛県松山市に生まれる。高浜虚子と同級で、虚子とともに正岡子規に兄事した。1893年第三高等学校に入学したが、翌年退学。子規の死後は従来の形式にとらわれない新傾向俳句を唱えて無中心論を説く。1932年還暦を迎えて俳壇から引退した。
代表句「蕎麦白き道すがらなり観音寺」「赤い椿白い椿と落ちにけり」など。
http://www.jinmei.info/data/20050208004.html

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kigo for late winter

Hekigotoo Ki 碧梧桐忌 Hekigotoo Memorial day
"Day when the cold ends", Kan-ake Ki 寒明忌（かんあけき）

. Memorial Days of Famous Poeple .

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Hekigotou Kawahigashi was born 5th son to father, Kon Kawahigashi (his pen name was Seikei), a samurai belonged to feudal domain of Matsuyama, and mother, Sei (her second name was Takemura). His real name was "Heigorou".
In 1887 (Meiji 20), he entered Iyo Ordinary Junior High School. He was in the same class with Kyoshi Takahama.

Hekigotou was taught baseball by Shiki when Shiki came home in 1887 (Meiji 20). Shiki had been asked to hand a ball to Hekikotou by Hekigotou's elder brother, "Kitou" who was Shiki's schoolmate.

Hekigotou had been concerned with Haiku taking advantage of this matter. He became the selector of the Haiku column of Newspaper "Nippon", but he changed his style into "the new trend of Haiku" and made this tendency stronger through a tour of the whole country.
He made up the records of this travel into "Sanzen-ri - Three southands of miles".
As times went on, he had been opposed to Kyoshi's conservatives.

He retired from the Haiku world at his 60th birthday in 1933 (Showa 8).
He died in 1937 (Showa 12) at the age of 65. His grave was located in the precinct of his father, Seikei's Houtouji Temple in Nishiyama, Matsuyama.
http://www.lib.ehime-u.ac.jp/KUHI/ENG/hekigotoeng.html

Another Short Biography

Kawahigashi Hekigodo (1873-1937) was, along with his friend Takahama Kyoshi, one of the most prominent students of the great modern haiku master Masaoka Shiki. Hekigodo was born in Matsuyama, like Shiki, and was the son of a Confucian scholar.

Perhaps the best word to describe Hekigodo is "restless". He dabbled in mountain climbing, calligraphy, Noh dancing, traveled to Europe, North America, China, and Mongolia, and wrote journalism, literary and social criticism, and poetry. At Shiki's death in 1902, Hekigodo succeeded him as editor of the haiku pages in the newspaper Nihon (or Nippon) and for a brief time was the most important figure in the Japanese haiku world.

One of Shiki's radical innovations was to abandon all the rules for writing haiku except for the 5-7-5 count of onji and the kigo, or season word. Hekigodo took the experiment one step further and abandoned the count of 17 onji in favor of "free verse" haiku.
He retained the kigo because he felt it was an essential connection to the natural world.

Hekigodo's students, led by Ogiwara Seisensui (who actually had been fooling around with free verse even before Hekigodo), broke with him and began even more radical experiments. They abandoned the use of the kigo, breaking the last connection with traditional haiku. Takahama Kyoshi, who had left haiku to write novels, came back to poetry and advocated a return to traditional haiku in the pages of the once radical Hototogisu. Caught between these two groups, Hekigodo became an increasingly frustrated and isolated figure in the world of haiku.

Before he died, he increasingly devoted himself to the study of traditional haiku, especially that of Yosa Buson.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=978050

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Kawahigashi became haiku editor of the magazines Hototogisu (“Cuckoo”; in 1897)
and Nippon (“Japan”; in 1902).

Kawahigashi Hekigoto carried Shiki's reform further with two proposals:
1. Haiku would be truer to reality if there were no center of interest in it.
2. The importance of the poet's first impression, just as it was, of subjects taken from daily life, and of local colour to create freshness.
http://www.preneo.com/nwylde/haikU/haikuresources.html

Shiki left many disciples behind, and these poets of the twentieth century continued to create the legacy of the haiku. Poets such as Kawahigashi Hekigoto still used the tradition form of Basho's haiku, but used new subjects (many Japanese poems are based around a selection of traditional subjects, such as frogs, cherry blossom or the moon)... until he gained a disciple named Ogiwara Seisensui who began to abandon the Basho-school haiku form.
The haiku, under the New Trend Haiku Movement, gained a fluidity, a lack of rules, so that the haiku could capture reality with ease. At least, that was the theory.
In reality, the New Trend Haiku were 'bumpy', and did not flow with the ease of the haiku of Basho.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1369507

Kawahigashi Hekigoto was probably the most famous of Shiki's students. He was of the younger generation of haiku greats. His earlier poems followed the traditional haiku format. Later in his career he began to abandon the traditional form. He wanted his poems to come as close to reality as possible without the interference of man made rules. He started the New Trend Haiku Movement. He experimented with disregarding the seventeen syllable pattern.

too hanabi
oto shite nani mo
nakarikeri

far fireworks
sounding, otherwise
not a thing

Read more of his haiku with translations here:
http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/lessons/bnakama/hekigoto.html

The kigo is fireworks .
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The leading disciple of Masaoka Shiki, Kawahigashi Hekigoto visited Saikoji Temple in Wada in 1897. The haiku-loving head priest was greatly impressed by Hekigoto, and switched to writing Shiki-style haiku, even being inspired to start the Etsuyukai poetry society.
"Zoku Sanzenri" contains references to Hekigoto's return visit to Saikoji Temple.

http://www.manabi-takaoka.jp/03/eng/category/detail/1815/1/detail.html

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Kawahigashi Hekigoto, a new wave haiku poet, was one of the most active researchers on Buson. He wrote about Buson's letters included in the 'Collected Letters of Buson' in his magazine 'Heki' .
河東碧梧桐の個人雑誌『碧』

http://www.nime.ac.jp/~saga/images/heki.html

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.....................................Haiku by Hekigoto

From a bathing tub
I throw water into the lake -
slight muddiness appears.

http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#kawahigashi

There is no explicit kigo, but the season is definitely summer.

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akai tsubaki shiroi tsubaki ochi ni keri

red camellia
white camellia
falling down

(Tr. Gabi Greve)

The kigo is Camellia (tsubaki) .

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TWENTIETH CENTURY JAPANESE PHILOSOPHICAL HAIKU:
IV HEKIGODO

by Hugh Bygott

The three poets, Shiki, Kyoshi and Hekigodô were close friends in Shiki’s time. Kyoshi was most faithful to Shiki’s ideals, but Hekigodô developed new ideas. At Shiki's death, Hekigodô succeeded him as editor of the haiku pages in the newspaper Nihon, and for a brief time
was the most important figure among the haiku poets in Japan.
Hekigodo went further than Shiki’s reforms, abandoning Shiki’s strict 5-7-5 form and developing free verse.

If Kyoshi can be called the father of modern Japanese haiku, Hekigodô can be called an innivator in philosophical haiku. In these we see Hekigodô going beyond some of the rules which have become fossilized in modern haiku. I refer specifically to the rule that a haiku must
always be in the present tense.

蝿打つまで蝿叩なかりし
hae utsu made haetataki nakarishi ... 15

There are two verbs in this haiku. I consider the final verb as past tense with the suffix -shi. It is a verb with a negative component and an existential verb. There are two clauses linked by the particle made which indicates a time limitation for actions or events. It is unmistakeably “until.”

I consider Makato Ueda’ s 1976 translation as faultless.

Until I hit the fly, the fly-swatter did not exist.

This haiku is gloriously and unmistakeably past tense.

[I recall the great debates in my philosophical youth; Ryle’s disputing dispositional properties, David Armstrong, my great teacher and protagonist, and the clarity of Peter Geach, now a ninety year who regularly attends Mass at Blackfriars, Cambridge.]

Does the fly-swatter exist potentially? Is the flat swift surface of the instrument a dispositional property?

We see that Hekigodô has abandoned the 5-7-5 = 17 structure. There is a kigo but is there a break with a recognized kireji word? Some might argue that it is the particle made. We have come a long way since Henderson’s silly comment that kireji are meaningless, or Asatarô
Miyamori’s equally silly comment that only ya and kana are important kireji.

Since English punctuation is superior to Japanese kireji, we can easily pause at the comma, and this is expected in English speech.
Do Japanese listeners make the mental break at made?

Quoted from: Translating Haiku

Footnote by Gabi Greve

I was reminded of this haiku above just yesterday, June 28, 2006.
We had human visitors, sitting outside enjoying freshly baked bread. There were also a few visitors from the animal realm. As they grew more noisy, one human took the nearby newspaper, rolled it hard and ... SWAT ! thus ended the life of one fly. And then a few more.

My translation of the haiku, which seems pure shasei (sketching from reality) in this context, would thus be:

until I hit that fly,
this was not
a fly-swatter

Thus it would not be a problem of philosophical existence, but simply one of using and naming things as life proceeds on hot summer days ....

........... nakarishi
... sonzai shinakatta ... did not exist ??
... de wa nakatta ... was not

Read the discussion about the fly-swatter, a tool and a person.
Fly, mosquito and fly-swatter are kigo for summer.

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Memorial Stones (ku-hi 句碑)

温泉めぐりして戻りし部屋に桃の活けてある

back from the hot bath
in my room in the vase
peach blossoms

(Tr. Gabi Greve)
The kigo is Peach Blossom.

http://www.lib.ehime-u.ac.jp/KUHI/JAP/michi4.html

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さくら活けた花屑の中から一枝拾う

from the cherry blossoms
arranged in the vase
I take out one branch

(Tr. Gabi Greve)
The kigo is Cherry Blossom ...

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Japanese Links 日本語のリンク

Haiku
http://www.kagyushinsha.com/roheki.html
http://www.suien.net/hekigodo/kansyo.htm

Life
.........................................His Grave

http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Oak/6788/hekigoto.html
http://www.suien.net/hekigodo/
http://www002.upp.so-net.ne.jp/sohtensya/tanshijin.htm
http://www.lib.ehime-u.ac.jp/KUHI/JAP/kuhi143.html
http://joho.ehime-iinet.or.jp/syogai/jinbutu/html/020.htm

........................... His Handwriting

Large:
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/gabigreve2000/imgs/1/6/1611b858.jpg
http://www.e-tmm.info/gakugei-2.htm

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http://hccweb6.bai.ne.jp/kakimori_bunko/tokuten02-haru.html

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Fly-swatter, hae tataki　蝿叩き,蝿叩　

... how long has the term fly swatter been around?
Carole ...

Read the answer HERE:
Fly-swatter, a kigo in the World Kigo Database 　　　　　　　　　　

Daruma san and many others are using a . fly whiks (flywhisk) 払子,hossu . to get rid of the flies in his sourroundings.

Gabi Greve

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「林檎をつまみ云ひ尽くしてもくりかへさねばならぬ」
ringo o tsumami ii-tsukushite mo kurikaesaneba naranu

munching apples ....
even after all is said,
it needs to be repeated
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Read a discussion about this haiku by
Hugh Bygott, Translating Haiku Forum

I pick up an apple;
I've said everything that was to be said,
But still must repeat.

Tr. Donald Keene

Read more of the discussion about this haiku

munching apples...
even after all is said,
it gets repeated...

Larry Bole, Translating Haiku Forum

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. Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水
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The Labyrinth and the Honey Pot

As you know, one of my professions is a specialist in Apitherapy, using the BEE products to help keep human beings healthy and heal diseases.

Checking many things about the bees, I found some information about the honeypot in connection with the labyrinth. Well, my separate interest in Mandala and Bees had finally merged !

.. .. .. .. .. The Honeypot and the Labyrinth

going in circles -
a honeypot at the end
of the quest

Mandalas and labyrinths have been known for more than 4000 years. Some have been used as tools for meditation. Labyrinths come in many ways, usually the ones where you get lost and have to find your way out. The Walking Mandala in the picture above is of a different kind, there is only one path and you can not get lost, but you have to keep going.

This one has its original in the Grand Cathedral in Chartres, France, where it was built in the 13th century. Pilgrims used to walk the labyrinth in the middle of the church to find their final place with God.

It has been so successfull that Church authorities later forbade to use it. Nowadays it is open again and many copies of it are made all over the world to have this experience.

Read a lot more details about the labyrinth later here:
http://www.veriditas.net/about/labyrinths.html

For now, let us get to the honeypot part of the story.

This story takes us back to ancient Greece and the island of Knossos. There was an inaccessible palace called "Labytinth". More than 2000 years ago, the culture of Minos flourished on this island.

According to ancient greek myths, the great greek King Aegeus was forced to pay tribute to King Minos of the Minoans, whose kingdom was on the island we now call Crete. Every year the tribute included seven young men and seven young maidens. Underground far below King Minos' palace at the city of Knossos lay a huge maze built for him by the inventor and master architect Daedalus. Inside the maze Minos kept a monster called the Minotaur. The Minotaur was a hideous creature that was half man and half bull.
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The fourteen young people from Greece would be let loose into the maze, the labyrinth, where they would become hopelessly lost and eventually be eaten by the Minotaur.

According to the legend, King Aegeus' son, Thesesus, decided to volunteer as one of the sacrificial victims, so that he could attempt to kill the Minotaur. Thesesus was successful. He slew the Minotaur, then used a trail of twine he'd started laying down at the entrance of the labyrinth to find his way out of the maze.

The name "Labyrinth" comes from the word "labrys" meaning "double-ax", and the dynasty of King Minos was referred to as the "House of the Double-Ax". Clearly there is history behind the myth here, for many images of double-axes have been found by archaeologists on Crete from a time even earlier than that of the mythological heroes.

Let us go back to Theseus and Ariadne.
One year the Athenian king sent his own son Theseus as part of the sacrifice. Theseus was determined finally to stop the slaughter, and to this end he was aided by Ariadne, daughter of the Minoan king, half-sister to Asterion and Mistress (or High Priestess) of the Labyrinth. Ariadne shared with Theseus the secrets and mysteries of the Labyrinth, and taught him the means by which Asterion might be killed. This she did because she loved Theseus.

Theseus entered the Labyrinth, and, aided by Ariadne’s secret magic, bested the tricks of the Labyrinth and killed Asterion in combat. Then, accompanied by Ariadne and her younger sister Phaedre, Theseus departed Crete and its shattered Labyrinth for his home city of Athens.

This labyrinth was constructed by Daedalus. Here is a bit about his legend:

He fled to the island of Crete, where he began to work at the court of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae, in the magnificent palace of Knossos. There he constructed a wooden cow for the queen to hide in to satisfy her amorous longings for a white bull sent by Poseidon, and by which she became pregnant with the Minotaur.
When the Minotaur was born, Daedalus built the Labyrinth to contain the monstrous half-man, half-bull. For years Minos demanded a tribute of youths from Athens to feed the creature.

We know that Theseus solved the problem, but that spelled trouble for Daedalus.
Daedalus decided that he and his son Icarus had to leave Crete and get away from Minos, before he brought them harm. However, Minos controlled the sea around Crete and there was no route of escape there. Daedalus realized that the only way out was by air.

http://thanasis.com/daedal2.gif

And as you see in the above picture, off he went with his son Ikarus.

To escape, Daedalus built wings for himself and Icarus, fashioned with feathers held together with wax. Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, as it would melt his wings, and not too close to the sea, as it would dampen them and make it hard to fly.
They successfully flew from Crete, but Icarus grew exhilarated by the thrill of flying and began getting careless. Flying too close to the sun god Helios, the wax holding together his wings melted from the heat and he fell to his death, drowning in the sea.

These wings, held together with WAX, another product of the bees.

Let us look at an ancient tablet of the time, with the following inscription

pa-si-te-o-i me-ri
da-pu-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja me-ri

To all the gods, one honey amphor,
To the Mistress of the Labyrinth, one honey amphor

http://www.escaped.it/doublevision/texts.htm

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Be sure to take this Honey as a gift
to give the Lady of the Labyrinth.

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/HL/ritual.html

The Mistress of the Labyrinth is of course Ariadne, who helped Theseus escape. In ancient times, the honeybee was the symbol of death and rebirth.

When offering honey to the Gods, a dance was performed, known as Geranos.

We learned of Theseus who killed the Minotaur at the labyrinth of Knossos. On his way back to Athens, Theseus stopped at Delos where he offered sacrifice to the gods for having saved him. During the sacrifice, he danced a dance with serpentine movements which represented his tortuous path through the maze and the tight ring in which the fight with the Minotaur took place. This is the dance of the labyrinth or Geranos ( Geranos ) as it is known in the ancient texts. Historians put this myth at the time of the power of the Minoan civilization, that is more than 3000 years ago.

Some 3400 years ago, an unknown scribe employed at Knossos, site of the fabled labyrinth and prison for the unfortunate Minotaur, recorded on a clay tablet the offering of a pitcher of honey to
"Potnia of the Labyrinth."

This is the first evidence for the use of Labyrinthos - the original Greek word we now know as Labyrinth.

http://www.labyrinthos.net/

The name "Potnia" or "po-ti-ni-ja," "The Lady," has survived inscribed on tablets at Knossos.
"Potnia of the Labyrinth," or "da-pu-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja."
A Knossos tablet describes an offering of honey to her, assuring us that she had a sanctuary dedicated to her in some part of the Labyrinth at Knossos. Only this particular temple was referred to in antiquity as the Labyrinth.
http://www.widdershins.org/vol8iss6/07.htm

With the above the connection between the Labyrinth, Ariadne and Honey is firmly established, I believe.

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Links used for this story, where you find more details:
http://www.unmuseum.org/minot.htm
http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC030435/Theseus_Minotaur_Analysis.htm
http://www.pccc.cc.nj.us/asrc/readwrit/theseus.html
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Ariadne.html
http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/labyrinth.html
http://www.saradouglass.com/theseus.html
http://thanasis.com/icarus.htm
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/HL/ritual.html

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From this link, you can launch the ONLINE labyrinth walker.

Grace Cathedral has two labyrinths. The outdoor labyrinth is made of terrazzo stone and is located to the right of the cathedral doors. This labyrinth is open 24 hours daily for walking.

source www.gracecathedral.org/labyrinth/

Here is the worldwide Labyrinth Locator.

The World-Wide Labyrinth Locator has been designed to be an easy-to-use database of labyrinths around the world. Information about labyrinths you can visit, including their locations, pictures, and contact details, are accessible here, along with information about the many types of labyrinths found worldwide. Labyrinths occur in many forms, shapes, and sizes, and the Locator contains both historic and modern examples.

If you input JAPAN you will find the one in my garden and the one we made in the city of Tsuyama.
http://wwll.veriditas.labyrinthsociety.org/

Pictures of our Labyrinth in Tsuyama Japan and more worldwide labyrinth types are here:

. Tsuyama 2004 - Labyrinth Photos .

. 津山のまちなか・元気ラビリント　 .

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Read more about my Mandala Therapy
Mandala Therapy .. coloring mandala patterns

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Lavender Labyrinth
Kastellaun, Germany.

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。。　。。　。。　迷路の中の蜂蜜ポット

曼陀羅や迷路は4000年も前から瞑想の道具として使われたそうです。でもこちらのパターンは迷路ではなく、曼陀羅です。実物はフランスの有名なチャルトレス市の大聖堂の床にあります。13世紀で作ったものです。古典的な遍路道で、11回のサークリングができます。中央に本当の自分と出会うことが出来ます。

曼陀羅のサークルを歩きながら心が晴れてきて、今まで見えないものが見えてくる。生きる力が湧いてくる。　この曼陀羅の道は一本道です。どこかの分かれ道で物事を決定することが必要ありません。身を任せるだけです。人生にもそう言う捕らえ方があるといいですね。歩きながらものを考えるのではなくて、自分の真の感情に直面することが出来る。

オンラインでも迷路を行く曼陀羅を見つけた。ぜひやってみてください。
http://www.gracecathedral.org/labyrinth/interactions/index.shtml#

迷路の真中に蜂蜜のポットが待っています。

話は古代クレタ島のクノッソス市にもどります。
盛時にはラビリンス（迷宮）と呼ばれていた宮殿は、今でも迷宮だ。そのクノッソス宮殿。紀元前2000年頃にミノア文明時代のクレタの王ミノスがデダロス名大工に築らせたと言われている。ところで現在では迷宮と訳されているラビリンス Labyrinth という言葉だけど、本来の意味は違っていただそうです。クノッソス宮殿の玉座の間には、双頭の斧が置かれていた。その双頭の斧のことをラブリュス Labrys と呼んだらしい。これがミノアの宗教において重要な意味を持っていた。宗教と政治を司る王の宮殿には、聖なる双頭の斧が置かれる。つまり「双頭の斧の家」。それがラビリンスの本来の意味だと言う話。
これから有名なテセウス神話の世界になりますが、英雄テセウスと王妃アリアドネの話はこちらで読んでください。
http://forum.nifty.com/fworld/pictures/greek0205/04.htm
http://www.infoaomori.ne.jp/~yappi/w.history/100kodai/111chichukai1.html
このテセウス神話は実に有名です。羽や蜜蝋で翼を作り、迷路から逃げるデダロス、イカロス親子の話も、半分雄牛のミノタウロスなどヨーロッパで親しまれた英雄やアイヂアがたくさん登場します。

考古学の発掘でわかったのですが、あるクノッソスの紀元前1400年のタブレットから次の文書が現れた：
Linear B tablet KN Gg702

pa-si-te-o-i me-ri da-pu2-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja me-ri

To all the gods, one honey amphor,
To the Mistress of the Labyrinth, one honey amphor
http://www.escaped.it/doublevision/texts.htm

神々に蜂蜜のアンフォーラを
迷路の女神に蜂蜜のアンフォーラを

迷路の女神はやはりテセウス神話にでるアリアドネのことです。
me-riはmel, mielつまり蜂蜜のことです。
当時では蜂蜜は死や再生のシンボルでもありました。蜂蜜を神様にささげる踊りの時にもつかいました。女神にささげる特別なダンス、Geranosゲラノス踊りはテセウス神話に登場する迷路を再現するダンスです。その話はまだ長いのですから省略。

古いクノッソスのタブレットはこちらです。
Some 3400 years ago, an unknown scribe employed at Knossos, site of the fabled labyrinth and prison for the unfortunate Minotaur, recorded on a clay tablet the offering of a pitcher of honey to "Potnia of the Labyrinth."
http://www.labyrinthos.net/

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. Parikrama - circumambulation .
of a holy place, in Hinduism, Buddhism etc.

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Finally a Japanese version of the book

聖なる道を歩く
黙想と祈りのラビリンス・ウォーク

source :　www.amazon.co.jp

ISBN-10: 4324098549

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Mandala Therapy

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Mandala Therapy

I use a kind of therapy forwarded by the German Doctor Ruediger Dahlke.

What you do is very simple:
Just color a given pattern as you like.

The result is usually stunning, it looks pretty whatever you do and the teacher or parent can praise you with full intention (not just pretending...). So children feel encouraged to do more. Older people feel the long-lost artist awakening. Everyone feels his power of concentration getting better and better, school results are improving, elderly people become more active.

Books with Mandala patterns now range in the hundreds in Germany. From simple ones for kindergarden level through all kinds of school ages. From various cultures to various patterns in nature. From geometrical patterns to the most complicated ones used in Buddhist mandalas. See the links below.

You can choose a pattern that you like and try your hand. Doing it before going to bed will bring you a solid sleep. All anger and anxiety is gone by the time your mandala is finished.

It is a pretty cheap way to reach a transformation, so not very much appreciated by the medical profession (nobody can get rich, nobody studies it).

To color the given patterns is more creative than you might think in the beginning. You really get in the creator mood, start seeing patterns and feel your own life is your own creation within the limits of the patterns of human beings. Thus a feeling of freedom arises you might not have experienced before. From this feeling, healing results in the long run.

Here are some of Dahlke's books in English.

Mandalas for Meditation by Ruediger Dahlke

Intrinsically beautiful, the intricate round patterns of mandalas are wonderful tools for self-reflection, meditation, and self-therapy. In this unique workbook, you will encounter basic principle mandalas that you can color and use in various rituals and exercises. Despite the associations of coloring with childhood, coloring mandalas has remarkable therapeutic effects--and it's fun too.

Use mandalas to treat depression, midlife crises, and even physical complaints. Harmonize your flow of energy, improve your concentration and relaxation, and gain strength from your own center. By coloring, a person accepts the orderliness of the mandala, which seems to help the soul to create order as well and to place everything where it belongs. It teaches a degree of patience and helps make difficult issues seem simpler. Through mandala therapy you can intuitively regain perspective on what really matters in life, and focus on what is essential to you.
http://www.bighappybuddha.com/maforme.html

Mandalas of the World: A Meditating and Painting Guide,
by Rudiger Dahlke,
Sterling Publishing, 1992.

A wonderful source book of mandala designs from around the world. Line drawings cover both Eastern and Western circular patterns of many kinds.

Check it out in more detail on this page:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0806985267/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-2113014-6890240#reader-link

On this link you can find more books with Mandala patterns for coloring.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806985267/claregoodwinsman/103-2113014-6890240?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1

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Here is a page (or rather eight) with online mandala patterns for you to print and fill in with colors.
........... ............. .............. Look at some:
http://www.nicoles-funworld.de/windowcolor/Malvorlagen/mandala/mandala005.gif

http://www.nicoles-funworld.de/windowcolor/Malvorlagen/mandala/mandala099.gif
http://www.nicoles-funworld.de/windowcolor/Malvorlagen/mandala/mandala087.gif

Here is the rest where you can copy your favorite.
http://www.nicoles-funworld.de/windowcolor/malvorlagen-mandala.php

Another link with many of the German Books about
Malvorlagen
http://www.om-esoterik.at/thema.mandala.html

For example the Celtic Mandalas, one of my favorites

http://tinyurl.com/8rq6f
http://www.om-esoterik.at/

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A German Link with many buttons to click.
http://www.adhikara.com/mandala_zum_ausmalen/mandala_malbuch_und_zeichnungen.htm

Here is one sample to print and start coloring

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There are other forms of Mandala Therapy.
Here are some links.

MANDALA - ANCIENT HEALING TOOL WORKS WITH TRAUMA THERAPY

The word "mandala" comes from Sanskrit meaning squared circle, circle and the center. Most of the known mandalas are from Tibet and India, but the idea and the use of mandalas can be found in every culture: Stonehenge in England, the old calendar stone of the Aztecs in Mexico, the bronze marriage mirror of the Tang dynasty in China. In the northern Finland shamans have drawn mandala-type drawings and symbols on their drums. North American Indians have used mandalas as an important part in their healing traditions as well as Australian Aborigines in their ground-paintings. Whirling dervishes (the Near East) have created mandalas by dancing. An astrological chart is a mandala, and so are I Ching charts in China.

In a mandala there is a center, cardinal points and a symmetry, and sometimes a circle. In a cathedral or you'll see a mandala in stained-glass windows, in the architecture etc. It can be found in "normal" art and psychedelic art, in wall paintings, in the designs of bowls, in ceremonial cloths and in byzantic textiles.

"Mandala means a circle, more especially a magic circle, and this form of symbol is not only to be found all through the East, but also among us; mandalas are amply represented in the Middle Ages. The specifically Christian ones come from the earlier Middle Ages. Most of them show Christ in the center, with the four evangelists, or their symbols, at the cardinal points. This conception must be a very ancient one because Horus was represented with his four sons in the same way by the Egyptians ... For the most part, the mandala form is that of a flower, cross, or wheel, with a distinct tendency toward four as the basis of the structure."- C. G. Jung (Commentary to Secret of the Golden Flower)

This is an interesting approach. Check it out here:
http://www.scorpitos.com/articles/mandala.htm

Instructions for your own Mandala
http://www.scorpitos.com/mandalas/maninst.htm

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Hawaii

The Peace that passes understanding is the quiet mind, the mind in which all inner dialogue is suspended. Mandala therapy is one way in which your mind can rest, going inward toward the center of your loving Heart. Your Heart is the source of your power and your wisdom. Your intuition arises from your Heart. When your mind is quiet you can hear your intuition which is your most powerful source of guidance.
http://www.innerjourneyshawaii.com/MandalaTherapy.htm

Some Modern Fun Mandala
A mandala is a circular image which is created as a healing or spiritual symbol for meditation or reflection. It has become popular as a form of art therapy because the ritual aspect of its creation seems to induce a sense of calm so it appears a safe way of journeying within - the circle gives boundaries to the work of art.
http://www.art-asylum.co.uk/mandalatherapy.htm
http://www.art-asylum.co.uk/mandalamobile.htm
Moving around
http://www.art-asylum.co.uk/mandalatrip.htm

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India

"Mandala is about working out your problems."
It's a way of expressing and solving problems through colour and line.
It's not an art and the whole point is to understand your own language, which is not very difficult. You have to create your own Mandala and not look at some one else's.

In a Mandala, the picture and the colours matter altogether. It's not about personalities; it's about working out your (own) problems. With its help you can tell stress levels, suppressed anger and what you should do about it.

©　Rohini Gupta
October 9, 2003

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More Links about Mandala

Mandala: The Art of Power...The Power of Art, Ray Whiting
Carl Jung and the Mandala.
Yantra: Hindu Tantric Diagrams
Early Tibetan Mandalas: The Rossi Collection.
Mandala-Universe.Com, by Judith Cornell.
Mandala 101, by Betty Jiron.
Sand Mandala by the Venerable Losang Samten
http://www.infography.com/content/202843838465.html

Books about Mandala
http://www.abgoodwin.com/mandala/ccprint.shtml

Some links about Mandala making from a friend

http://raysweb.net/making_mandalas/

http://georgep.stanford.edu/~paplinda/mrspcorner/digitalart/oldmastermandalas/mandalas.htm
http://community.webshots.com/user/karina3884
http://community.webshots.com/user/cox_g

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/linda-mandala.htm
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Cynthia-mandala.htm
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/geomath.htm

Linda

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Do not miss my Mandala Haiku Gallery
MANDALA .. Just the Beginning

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Labyrinth .. Ariadne and the Honey Pot

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