Day: April 14, 2018

davidbrucehaiku: choice

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CHOICE

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you must think and choose

to be good or to be bad

must act on your choice

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NOTE: Human beings fall into two groups: good and bad. Membership in either group is open to all.

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davidbrucehaiku: tranquility?

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TRANQUILITY?

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Need you be wealthy

To achieve tranquility?

Should that be for all?

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Lao-Tzu #6: The spirit of emptiness is immortal.

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The spirit of emptiness is immortal.

It is called the Great Mother

because it gives birth to Heaven and Earth.

 

It is like a vapor,

barely seen but always present.

Use it effortlessly.

 

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Thomas Hardy: Before Marching and After

Hardy 2
(in Memoriam F. W. G.)
  

       Orion swung southward aslant

       Where the starved Egdon pine-trees had thinned,
       The Pleiads aloft seemed to pant
       With the heather that twitched in the wind;
But he looked on indifferent to sights such as these,
Unswayed by love, friendship, home joy or home sorrow,
And wondered to what he would march on the morrow.
 
       The crazed household-clock with its whirr
       Rang midnight within as he stood,
       He heard the low sighing of her
       Who had striven from his birth for his good;
But he still only asked the spring starlight, the breeze,
What great thing or small thing his history would borrow
From that Game with Death he would play on the morrow.
 
       When the heath wore the robe of late summer,
       And the fuchsia-bells, hot in the sun,
       Hung red by the door, a quick comer
       Brought tidings that marching was done
For him who had joined in that game overseas
Where Death stood to win, though his name was to borrow
A brightness therefrom not to fade on the morrow.

Aesop: The Fox and the Crow

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A FOX once saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in its beak and settle on a branch of a tree. “That’s for me, as I am a Fox,” said Master Reynard, and he walked up to the foot of the tree. “Good-day, Mistress Crow,” he cried. “How well you are looking today: how glossy your feathers; how bright your eye. I feel sure your voice must surpass that of other birds, just as your figure does; let me hear but one song from you that I may greet you as the Queen of Birds.” The Crow lifted up her head and began to caw her best, but the moment she opened her mouth the piece of cheese fell to the ground, only to be snapped up by Master Fox. “That will do,” said he. “That was all I wanted. In exchange for your cheese I will give you a piece of advice for the future—“DO NOT TRUST FLATTERERS.”

davidbrucehaiku: EARTHLY PARADISE  (after Iio Sōgi)

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EARTHLY PARADISE  (after Iio Sōgi)

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This is Paradise.

People live here. They suffer.

All who live suffer.

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