Posted on August 15, 2012, in Poetry, Senryu, Writing and tagged Ascension, Non-attachment, Positivity, Senryu. Bookmark the permalink. 14 Comments.
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“You should stop words and letters, and learn to withdraw and reflect on yourself. When you do so, your body and mind will naturally fall away, and your original Buddha nature will appear.” – Dogen.
Now, where can I find . . . ?
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Stacked in the back room
Filed but not forgotten
Admissions of a structure junky
Stringy theories . . .
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Ben Naga 
lovely haiku!! i wish i knew how to write such a magnificent piece.. 🙂
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This was, literally, inspired. The middle line leapt out at me from a post I was reading, crying out to become the core of a senryu. I counted … yes, seven syllables! Then the third line arose in my mind(accompanied by the music 😉 )from that song by The 5th Fifth Dimension,
I counted … five syllables! Absolute magic! Then the first line emerged in my consciousness from I know not where. In fact, it was only the title I had to do any work on at all. 😛
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Great idea!
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Worries? Not today, thank you. 😀
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perfect! 😉
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Thank you. You just have to keep out of the way. This morning I read:
“Let everything go where it naturally wants to go and you will always be successful. Try to force things to go the way they don’t want to go and you will have nothing but failure.” – Lao Tzu
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very wise words..if everyone could live by them the world would be a far better place.
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“You in your small corner
And I in mine” 😀
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Wonderful, Ben! 🙂
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Thank you Lauren, I can take little credit for this, though. 🙂
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Why?
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See my reply to abichica above. 🙂
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Looking down on you.
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Nothing elevated in looking down on others, surely.
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