haiku writing as a way

[Dokan]

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going on my first retreat at the end of the month

If you don't mind me asking, where are you going for retreat Daisy?

I am always on the hunt for others experiences with practicing at other zendos. Thanks!

Gassho

Dokan

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[Amelia]

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Whole
Not two
Holding two

[Shokai]

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Temple Bell
Crows cawing
mystical silence

[Daisy]

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going on my first retreat at the end of the month

If you don't mind me asking, where are you going for retreat Daisy?

I am always on the hunt for others experiences with practicing at other zendos. Thanks!

Gassho

Dokan

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Hello! I think it's helpful to share experiences, especially for first timers like me. I am going on a Mindfulness based retreat at Taraloka (http://www.taraloka.org.uk), a retreat in a women's Buddhist community in the Shropshire countryside in the UK. There is a nice write up on Taraloka on the good retreat guide website (http://www.thegoodretreatguide.com I think that is the correct link, it might just be http://www.goodretreatguide.com). I use mindfulness with some of my clients for work (I work in a hospital), it has a good clinical evidence base in addition to being common sense, down to earth good stuff... Anyway, I'm hoping to deepen my own practice to help me be able to reflect more fully and support my clients effectively.
I would be interested in hearing more about your experiences too.

[chessie]

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Grass frost, tiny lights.
Do the stars crunch if stepped on?
I'll try it tonight.

[Daisy]

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kitten pushes door-
old cat waits for opening
in patient calmness

that was my first Haiku written a year or so ago about my two cats, Ninja and Shuriken.

[Daisy]

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Grass frost, tiny lights.
Do the stars crunch if stepped on?
I'll try it tonight.

ah, it's obviously cold where you are too, Chessie!
I like the idea of star crunching!

[chessie]

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Begging bowl beckons
Monks exchange Dharma for food
Behold; the crescent moon!

This is close to what I saw tonight:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74867807@N00/558966408/

Gassho,

Ann

[alan.r]

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It's the day before spring break. I'm sitting in class awaiting student papers, which means I'm not doing anything (like always! I kid, I kid). I thought I would post a couple haiku. These are from my blog: http://www.stories-like-stories-you-know.blogspot.com/. I'm a writer, just one of several costumes.

My wife has been away for the last couple weeks:

headlights pass over walls.
even the dog
perks his ears for you.

Driving to work one morning:

stranded roadside
smoke billows from the engine.
starlings black against the sky.


Something else:

taking the trash out
to forget this zen.
dead dog on the wet road.


I enjoyed reading many of the poems in this thread. Many thanks,

Alan

[murasaki]

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deleted -- posted in "haiku chain" forum.

[will]

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Let us know when you start the workshop.

Gassho

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