Haiku

Here, where a thousand
captains swore grand
conquest . . .
Tall Grass their monument

One the unique things about the grass symbol is that you never find just one blade of grass by itself. You can find flowers, trees, animals, and people who spend their time alone, but grass is also surrounded by more grass. This makes grass a great symbol for…[Read more]

Nine times arising
to see the moon . . .
whose solemn pace
Marks only midnight yet.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Living well only means Enlightenment.

Enlightenment is a simple realization that everything is as it should be.
That is the definition of enlightenment: everything is as it…[Read more]

The sea darkening . . .
oh voices of the
wild ducks
Crying, whirling, white

In this haiku sea is representing our unconsciousness. Wild Duck represents our soul. When our unconscious body whirls, through the whirling we become conscious of our soul.

To come out from our unconsciousness whirling is beautiful meditation:
Whirling is an ancient…[Read more]

Now the swinging bridge
is quieted
with creepers . . .
Like our tendrilled life

Our possessiveness has taken away freedom to love. Like with creepers quieted the swinging bridge.

Love can be impure, then it creates bondage. When it is pure it brings freedom. The whole process of awareness is of purifying your love-energy. It is mixed with many…[Read more]

Lady butterfly
perfumes her wings
by floating
Over the orchid

It says that it was mating season. Lady butterfly sending message of readiness through it’s perfume. She is floating over orchid – says that she is playful, romantic.

Unless we are ready from our side and send message to the existence, in that readiness receptivity existence merge w…[Read more]

In the twilight rain
these brilliant-hued
hibiscus . . .
A lovely sunset

Twilight represents opposite. Life exists in contradictions.

Life is not made of contradictions. It is made of complementaries. Only in the mind, do things appear to be opposite. Only in the mind, you cannot conceive how they both can be one. That’s why Euclidean geometry s…[Read more]

Camellia-petal
fell in silent dawn . . .
spilling
A water-jewel

From the Camellia-petal Dew Drop just spills in the silence of the first appearance of light in the sky.

When our mind becomes silent, in the inner sky first ray of consciousness appears. In that moment for the first time like Camellia flowers, which is symbol of love, we experience…[Read more]

Silent the old town . . .
the scent of flowers
floating . . .
And evening bell

With maturity out of awareness person become silent. When someone become silent he become aware of his surrounding also. He can smell of scent of flowers which is floating in air. He is in middle like evening. Day has gone and still night not started.

If you can…[Read more]

Chrysanthemum
Silence – monk
Sips his morning tea.

Chrysanthemum is used for meditation. When you become silent your any act can become meditation.

Zen is simply a technique of entering into your veryness. The entrance is so deep that nothing remains, and all is found.

Silence is when you connect with your core consciousness and your deepest…[Read more]

Wake! The sky is light!
let us to the road
again . . .
Companion butterfly!

When sky is light means state of no-thoughts. This is moment is possibility to become alert towards self. If you become alert towards yourself, transformation happens.
The butterfly symbolizes transformation and joy. Its dance reflects the need for movement from where we…[Read more]

Bright red pepper-pod . . .
it needs but shiny
wings and look . . .
Darting dragon-fly!

When mind is mixed up with reality it creates unreal world.

Hindus call this world maya, illusory, dreamlike, mind-stuff. What do they mean? Do they mean that it is unreal? No, it is not unreal, but when your mind gets mixed into it, you create an unreal…[Read more]

Swallow in the dusk . . .
spare my little
buzzing friends
Among the flowers

When one dissolve in existence, he surrender himself and in gratitude he ask forgiveness from his own mind, saying goodbye to him. Even though the mind is biggest barrier between us and existence, still in gratitude he is thankful to his own mind.

Gratitude creates a…[Read more]

Such utter silence!
even the crickets’
singing . . .
Muffled by hot rocks.

What is silence?
Stop fulfilling expectations of others, because that is the only way you can commit suicide. You are not here to fulfill anybody’s expectations and nobody else is here to fulfill your expectations. Never become a victim of others expectations and don’t…[Read more]

Must springtime fade?
then cry all birds . . .
and fishes
Cold pale eyes pour tears

When we feel separation from the existence, the pain of separation save us from all the afflictions.

The sadness of separating from you (Existence), Has saved me from all other afflictions. None dares to approach me now.
In time, only one memory will remain -…[Read more]

Cloud of cherry-bloom . . .
tolling twilight
bell . . . Temple
Ueno? Asakura?

When you are silent, you are in middle, like twilight. Person who is in total silent can hear universal sound.
Sit in the silence of the night and listen to it. This sound of stillness is very close to the ego. When Omkar begins to sound within you, at first you will…[Read more]

Too curious flower
watching us pass,
met death . . .
Our hungry donkey

Like flower when our being blooms, we becomes watcher, ego dies and we live in this world without losing individuality.

Individuality means your uniqueness — not compared with anybody else. Your incomparable uniqueness: that is individuality. Individuality is beautiful; t…[Read more]

Under cherry-trees
soup, the salad,
fish and all . . .
Seasoned with petals

Variety of food is like mind and petals represents consciousness.

Remember well that you don’t have one mind; you have multi-minds.
Mind is a flux: river like, flowing, changing. Consciousness is eternal, one. It is not different in the morning and different in the…[Read more]

Glorious the moon . . .
therefore our thanks
dark clouds
Come to rest our necks.

When our focus shift from thoughts to self, we are grateful to everything around us. Our mind becomes silent and at rest.

Life is a story we weave together from the thoughts, feelings, and emotions we experience each moment. Yet we live the majority of our life in…[Read more]

Dewdrop, let me cleanse
in your brief
sweet waters . . .
These dark hands of life.

The moment person realizes his emptiness, means he has emptied his unconsciousness, become fresh and young like dewdrop.

You are the master of your destiny. You can change every act, you can change every habit. You can change what you think has become your second…[Read more]

Why so scrawny, cat?
starving for fat fish
or mice . . .
Or backyard love?

All of us have the innate need to love and be loved. When we are born, we enter the world with a pure expectation of unconditional love.

If we look to our relationships to complete us and fulfill our unmet needs for happiness and love, then those relationships often…[Read more]