Haiku Shuukan (Shuukan means week in Japanese) is a weekly haiku-meme to write haiku with a given prompt. Haiku is a reflection in words used as a painting to describe a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown in water. ++ Haiku Shuukan is part of Carpe Diem Haiku Family ++
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My excuses for not posting last Sunday September 13th, maybe that's also a choice to survive. As you all know I am hosting a daily haiku meme Carpe Diem Haiku Kai which gobbles a lot of my time. So to give this revival of Haiku Shuukan a chance to survive I have decided to make this a two weekly "poetry" meme.
Our prompt for this week is survival and that can mean a lot, but in present time I think this is the most important rule in our world. Look at the refugees from all over the world were the heat is on, for example: the Southern-East European and Asian countries ... they all will survive ...
As I was preparing this episode I thought of "I Will Survive"
Well ... I hope this episode will inspire you to write haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form. Have fun!
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until October 3rd at noon (CET).
Welcome at a new episode of Haiku Shuukan. After almost a year I have decided to revive this weblog and so here is the first prompt of a revived Haiku Shuukan, alone.I love to challenge you all to write a haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form inspired on this new prompt alone and I also have a picture to help you to become inspired.
And of course I will try to write my own inspired poem, haiku, tanka or another Japanese poetry form. So here is my inspired poem for this episode, alone.
without you the world will never be the same alone with my thoughts I will miss you more and more perfume of Honeysuckle
Well ... I hope I have inspired you and I hope to see you all very often here again. This episode of Haiku Shuukan is open for your submissions at noon (CET) and will remain open until next Sunday September 13th at noon (CET).
This week I haven't had enough time to post on time here at Haiku Shuukan. My apologies for that, but sometimes time is not at my side.
This week we will close our journey along the six (6) sounds of the greatest mantra I know "Om Mani Padme Hum". This week "hum" is the prompt and it stands for purifying aggression and hatred (hell realm) as you can read here after:
Om purifies
bliss and pride (realm of the gods); Ma purifies jealousy and need for
entertainment (realm of the jealous gods); Ni purifies passion and desire
(human realm); Pad purifies ignorance and prejudice (animal realm); Me purifies
greed and possessiveness (realm of the hungry ghosts); Hum purifies aggression
and hatred (hell realm).
And with this wonderful video we come at the end of our quest through this wonderful mantra ... this was also the last episode of this year here at Haiku Shuukan. I have to think it over if I will prolong this weekly haiku meme. Through lack of time and of course our daily haiku meme Carpe Diem Haiku Kai I can't promise you to be back here at Haiku Shuukan. Maybe I will migrate it to Wordpress and let it become one with our weekly haiku meme"Tackle It Tuesday" at Wordpress. We will see ...
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until the end of this year on December 31st at noon (CET).
Sorry ... I am a bit late, maybe that's the consequence of being in the nightshift, but ... well no time for excuses ... let's go and create an all new episode of Haiku Shuukan.
This week we are going further with exploring the powerful 'Om Mani Padme Hum', mantra. This week it's the fifth 'sound' , "me" ... I will give the mantra here again:
Om purifies bliss and
pride (realm of the gods); Ma purifies jealousy and need for
entertainment (realm of the jealous gods); Ni purifies passion and desire (human realm);
Pad purifies
ignorance and prejudice (animal realm); Me purifies greed and possessiveness (realm of
the hungry ghosts); Hum purifies aggression and hatred (hell
realm).
As we look at the mantra's fifth sound "Me" than we can see that it purifies greed and possessiveness (realm of the hungry ghosts) and this is what is said about this mantra by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche:
"The
mantra Om Mani Pädme Hum is easy to say yet quite powerful, because it contains
the essence of the entire teaching. When you say the first syllable Om it is
blessed to help you achieve perfection in the practice of generosity, Ma helps
perfect the practice of pure ethics, and Ni helps achieve perfection in the
practice of tolerance and patience. Päd, the fourth syllable, helps to achieve
perfection of perseverance, Me helps achieve perfection in the practice of
concentration, and the final sixth syllable Hum helps achieve perfection in the
practice of wisdom. "So in this way recitation of the mantra helps achieve
perfection in the six practices from generosity to wisdom. The path of these
six perfections is the path walked by all the Buddhas of the three times. What
could then be more meaningful than to say the mantra and accomplish the six
perfections?"
—Dilgo
Khyentse Rinpoche, Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones.
This fifth sound is connected with the fourth and together with that sound it refers to Wisdom. Om Mani Padme Hum is a very strong mantra and in it self the world of Buddhism ... it offers us the basic rules of Buddhism, one of the pilars of haiku.
This sound is about purifying greed and possessiveness, but what is wrong with greed or possession? I am greedy in a positive way:
As I read all the wonderful submitted haiku than I become greedy for more of those wonderful haiku written by you all, my dear Haijin, visitors and travelers. Something wrong with that? I think not.
Another one also with a touch of greed and possession in it with (in my opinion) a clear positive meaning:
first
cherry blossom
every day I look up with greed -
another cherry blossom
I love to have my Sakura in the backyard and I love to see it's blossoms and yes I am greedy for more of it's beauty, nothing wrong with I think.
In a way this fifth sound "Me" brings me the feeling of happiness of being greedy and possessive, and that happiness is more in the way of I am happy with the things I have, the beauty of haiku, the beauty of Cherry Blossoms ... that's what this fifth sound means to me. This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and I hope it will inspire you to write wonderful haiku (or tanka) ... I am looking forward to all of your wonderful posts with a kind of greed ... (smiles). This episode is open until next Wednesday December 17th at noon (CET) Have fun.
I am so happy that I have some spare time to create this new post for our Haiku Shuukan ... really it's a joy to have finally a little bit of time to be on time with publishing here.
This week we are going on with our quest through the six "sounds" of the mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum". And this week we have the fourth "sound" of this mantra "Pad". Before I dive in this episode I will share the meaning of "Om Mani Padme Hum" here again.
Om purifies
bliss and pride (realm of the gods); Ma purifies jealousy and need for
entertainment (realm of the jealous gods); Ni purifies passion and desire
(human realm); Pad purifies ignorance and prejudice (animal realm); Me purifies
greed and possessiveness (realm of the hungry ghosts); Hum purifies aggression
and hatred (hell realm).
And I love to share a video:
This week's sound is "Pad" and it stands for diligence and purifies ignorance and prejudice (animal realm). It's color is blue and the symbol the deity is equanimity and wishes to be born in the presence of the Protector.
H.H. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, "On the meaning of: OM MANI PADME HUM":
"It is
very good to recite the mantra Om mani padme hum, but while you are doing it,
you should be thinking on its meaning, for the meaning of the six syllables is
great and vast... The first, Om [...] symbolizes the practitioner's impure
body, speech, and mind; it also symbolizes the pure exalted body, speech, and
mind of a Buddha[...]"
"The
path is indicated by the next four syllables. Mani, meaning jewel, symbolizes
the factors of method: (the) altruistic intention to become enlightened,
compassion, and love.[...]"
"The
two syllables, padme, meaning lotus, symbolize wisdom[...]"
"Purity
must be achieved by an indivisible unity of method and wisdom, symbolized by
the final syllable hum, which indicates indivisibility[...]"
"Thus
the six syllables, om mani padme hum, mean that in dependence on the practice
of a path which is an indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can transform
your impure body, speech, and mind into the pure exalted body, speech, and mind
of a Buddha[...]"
Thoughts to
be had whilst chanting transcribed in simplification keeping essence:
Being and
non-beings proliferate loving compassion and indivisible intelligent
equanimity; Om Mani Padme Hum.
That is the
natural ubiquitous pervasive force of consciousness. These frequencies are in
the Sanskrit tongue, act as a harmonic sound resonance against blocking energy,
or sleeping energy. Plants reflect this action as well because of the phonetic
strength of vibration that is stimulated by natural pronunciation.
How to respond on this all with a haiku? ... Not an easy task ... as I look at the above explanation I think I will go for the wise animal/bird Owl to write a haiku with, because the two "sounds" "Pad-Me" symbolize wisdom. So here is my try to write a haiku in response on this week's prompt "Pad".
lost in the
field
only stars as my compass -
cry of a snowy owl
mysterious
fields
hidden in mists and greyness -
the cry of an owl
the cry of
an owl
resonates through the night
mysterious fields
Well ... I hope you did like this post and I hope that it will inspire you to write an all new haiku and share it with us all here at our Haiku Shuukan, our weekly haiku-meme and part of the Carpe Diem Haiku Family.
This episode will be open for your submissions today at noon (CET) and will remain open until next Friday December 5th at noon (CET). Have fun!
After not being here for a week, just because I hadn't time to write a post, I am here again to create you an all new episode of our weekly haiku-meme Haiku Shuukan.
As you all know we are busy with the well known mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum" and this week we have arrived at the third sound of this mantra "NI" which purifies passion and desire (human realm). Here is the complete mantra and the meaning of the divers sounds.
Om purifies
bliss and pride (realm of the gods); Ma purifies jealousy and need for
entertainment (realm of the jealous gods); Ni purifies passion and desire
(human realm); Pad purifies ignorance and prejudice (animal realm); Me purifies
greed and possessiveness (realm of the hungry ghosts); Hum purifies aggression
and hatred (hell realm).
Not a strong response I think, but I like the scene (a bit of humor).
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday November 28th at noon (CET). Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all.
Last week we started with a new series of weekly haiku-prompts and it was fun to make that episode, it's a bit sad to see that there are not that much contributors to this weekly haiku meme, maybe that's because of my choice of prompts or they cannot find the way to Haiku Shuukan.
It all doesn't matter, but I would like to see more contributors. The upcoming prompt is "MA" and it is the second syllable or sound of the mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum" which means:
Om purifies
bliss and pride (realm of the gods); Ma purifies jealousy and need for
entertainment (realm of the jealous gods); Ni purifies passion and desire
(human realm); Pad purifies ignorance and prejudice (animal realm); Me purifies
greed and possessiveness (realm of the hungry ghosts); Hum purifies aggression
and hatred (hell realm).
So this week's prompt is about purifying jealousy and need for entertainment (realm of the jealous gods). It means that with this "syllable" or "sound" you become free of jealousy and the need for entertainment. I think "Om Mani Padme Hum" is a very strong mantra and I love to share here a video of monks chanting this mantra:
I hope it will help you to become inspired to write an all new haiku in response of "Ma".
Not a very strong haiku, but it was one of the first which came in mind as I listened to the mantra sung by those Buddhist monks ... in some way I realized that mirrors are the source for jealousy ... don't ask me why I thought that ... I can't tell you ...
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday November 14th at noon (CET). Our next prompt will be, "Ni" the third syllable or sound of this purifying mantra.
