Haiku Chain

[BigSkyDiamond]

south from Central, park 

your car on the street, see the

adobe abode

 

Edited Thursday at 05:04 PM by BigSkyDiamond

[Apech]

1 hour ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

south from Central, park 

your car on the street, see the

adobe abode

 

adobe abode

whitewash walls and shade within

mud hut aesthetics 

[心神 ~]

24 minutes ago, Apech said:

adobe abode

whitewash walls and shade within

mud hut aesthetics 

 

mud hut aesthetics

in this fragile, dusty mind;

maya, swept aside

 

[Mark Foote]

On 8/14/2025 at 11:45 AM, 心神 ~ said:

 

mud hut aesthetics

in this fragile, dusty mind;

maya, swept aside

 

maya, swept aside

she'll be back, with a vengeance

when you're in the boat

 

 

[BigSkyDiamond]

33 minutes ago, Mark Foote said:

maya, swept aside

she'll be back, with a vengeance

when you're in the boat

 

when you're in the boat,

and choppy waters toss, just 

lay down, rest, be lulled

 

 

(a counselor told me that once.  she said if it feels like i'm in a little boat (my life) and the waves are choppy and my little boat is being tossed, she said you can always just lay down for a bit in the bottom of your little boat and rest.  The movement and waves can be a lullaby like being rocked and lulled.  i love that and have used it for many decades. It doesn't make the storms disappear or go away, there will still be storms, but there is always safe passage for me, i rest in the calm that is always available to me within any storm.  i love that.)

 

Edited Friday at 09:17 PM by BigSkyDiamond

[Cobie]

 

58 minutes ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

when you're in the boat,

and choppy waters toss, just 

lay down, rest, be lulled

lay down, rest, be lulled
So many boats, but only

one reality

 

[Mark Foote]

21 hours ago, Cobie said:

lay down, rest, be lulled
So many boats, but only

one reality
 

one reality

in and out of the holes in

my face, with no trace

 

 

[BigSkyDiamond]

my face, with no trace

of makeup, because Mom said

you don't need that junk

[Cobie]

 

2 minutes ago, Mark Foote said:

one reality

in and out of the holes in

my face, with no trace

I never understand him 

Was this about golf?

[Mark Foote]

 

 

20 minutes ago, Cobie said:

I never understand him 

Was this about golf?
 

 

 

Linji said to the assembly, "There is a true man with no rank always going out and in through the portals of your face. Beginners who have not yet witnessed it, look! Look!"

("Book of Serenity", Hsing-hsiu [1166-1246], 38th case, tr. T. Cleary, Shambala p167)

 

 

Quote

(BigSkyDiamond)

my face, with no trace

of makeup, because Mom said

you don't need that junk
 

You don't need that junk

not the droids you're looking for

long since, far away

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 08:21 PM by Mark Foote

[Cobie]

     
 

21 minutes ago, Mark Foote said:

Linji said… 

 

        Yeah, that so did not help.   [真人 (zhen1 ren2) true man (Daoist ideal man)]

 

Quote

You don't need that junk

not the droids you're looking for

long since, far away

long since, far away 
Righto, now he’s calling mum

a memory droid. 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 08:41 PM by Cobie

[BigSkyDiamond]

2 minutes ago, Cobie said:

long since, far away 
Righto, now he’s calling mum

a memory droid. 

 

 

 

long since far away,

golf, droids, confusion woven.

Soul glows bright within

 

 

oops, the use by date for that has expired so going instead with:

 

a memory droid,

simile employed, or more

like metaphor mixed.

 

[Mark Foote]

55 minutes ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

 

long since far away,

golf, droids, confusion woven.

Soul glows bright within

 

 

oops, the use by date for that has expired so going instead with:

 

a memory droid,

simile employed, or more

like metaphor mixed.

 

"Use-by date"-- 

 

Cobie-- "Yeah, that so did not help."

 

Gautama stated that those who correctly practice “mindfulness of death” apply his teachings “for the interval that it takes to swallow having chewed up one morsel of food”, or “for the interval that it takes to breathe out after breathing in, or to breathe in after breathing out”.

(The Early Record)

 

 

All you have to do is apply the four Nikayas in sixteen volumes "for the interval" that stuff goes in or out of the holes in your face (hopefully the one morsel only goes in), and you will know the "true (person) with no rank" intimately!

like a metaphor mixed

or a cookie dough with chips

got to bake it up