He taught the Dhamma, night and morn,
The One who is "thus come thus gone"
Because the Buddha taught
No need to be distraught
There's a way to no longer be born.
"Yakkha"
Theravadin limerick challenge
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
I am no poet, but a yakkha
becalmed by the Dhammacakka
Atanatiya
will also free ya
of a personalised akka
kilesa
becalmed by the Dhammacakka
Atanatiya
will also free ya
of a personalised akka
kilesa
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
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Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
O.K. Ben ... I've found
Akka [cp. Sk. arka] N. of a plant: Calotropis Gigantea, swallow -- wort M i.429 (˚assa jiyā bowstrings made from that plant).
-- nāla a kind of dress material Vin i.306 (vv. ll. agga˚ & akkha˚). -- vāṭa a kind of gate to a plantation, a movable fence made of the akka plant Vin ii.154 (cp. akkha -- vāṭa).
What is a personalised akka?????? Are you wearing dresses?
No trace in the Pali-English Dictionary of Atanatiya
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Please explain!
metta
Chris
Akka [cp. Sk. arka] N. of a plant: Calotropis Gigantea, swallow -- wort M i.429 (˚assa jiyā bowstrings made from that plant).
-- nāla a kind of dress material Vin i.306 (vv. ll. agga˚ & akkha˚). -- vāṭa a kind of gate to a plantation, a movable fence made of the akka plant Vin ii.154 (cp. akkha -- vāṭa).
What is a personalised akka?????? Are you wearing dresses?
No trace in the Pali-English Dictionary of Atanatiya
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Please explain!
metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
No one said it had to mean anything!
Seriously...
Atanatiya (Sutta): Its a paritta, a protection against yakkhas: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .piya.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Akka: ok, I got that one seriously wrong. I thought it was a 'state of being shaken'
Just goes to show, despite my irish heritage, I should not compose a limerick while preparing dinner.
Seriously...
Atanatiya (Sutta): Its a paritta, a protection against yakkhas: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .piya.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Akka: ok, I got that one seriously wrong. I thought it was a 'state of being shaken'
Just goes to show, despite my irish heritage, I should not compose a limerick while preparing dinner.
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
note: If we are keeping to the rules one must add the next limerick to also make a comment so as to maintain the flow. Seem fair? Thanks for the list Chris, it seems like a worthwhile exception to always posting a verse.
kilesa
kilesa [kilesa]: Defilement — lobha (passion), dosa (aversion), and moha (delusion) in their various forms, which include such things as greed, malevolence, anger, rancor, hypocrisy, arrogance, envy, miserliness, dishonesty, boastfulness, obstinacy, violence, pride, conceit, intoxication, and complacency.
- accesstoinsight glossary
kilesa regarding the khanda
sankhara and vedana
vinnana and sanna
which are rupa and nama
makes akusala kamma
majjhima
[majjhima]: Middle; appropriate; just right.
kilesa
kilesa [kilesa]: Defilement — lobha (passion), dosa (aversion), and moha (delusion) in their various forms, which include such things as greed, malevolence, anger, rancor, hypocrisy, arrogance, envy, miserliness, dishonesty, boastfulness, obstinacy, violence, pride, conceit, intoxication, and complacency.
- accesstoinsight glossary
kilesa regarding the khanda
sankhara and vedana
vinnana and sanna
which are rupa and nama
makes akusala kamma
majjhima
[majjhima]: Middle; appropriate; just right.
But whoever walking, standing, sitting, or lying down overcomes thought, delighting in the stilling of thought: he's capable, a monk like this, of touching superlative self-awakening. § 110. {Iti 4.11; Iti 115}
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Majjhima
Don't forget majjhima-patipada
when saying what ought or ought notta
go into this thread.
"Rules? Shmules!" Jechbi said.
Let's have fun, then say "thanks" and "de nada."
I'd love to see another take on Anicca.
Don't forget majjhima-patipada
when saying what ought or ought notta
go into this thread.
"Rules? Shmules!" Jechbi said.
Let's have fun, then say "thanks" and "de nada."
I'd love to see another take on Anicca.
Rain soddens what is kept wrapped up,
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
I'd like to stay young forever,
Never to hear the word 'suffer'
No matter which being
One cannot help seeing
The changing affects of anicca.
mūla
http://www.palikanon.com/english/wtb/g_m/muula.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Never to hear the word 'suffer'
No matter which being
One cannot help seeing
The changing affects of anicca.
mūla
http://www.palikanon.com/english/wtb/g_m/muula.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
I once owned a grumpy old mula
That my children named Noola
Three roots with oats
It ate on toast
but died and rebecame as a loofa!
Phala
That my children named Noola
Three roots with oats
It ate on toast
but died and rebecame as a loofa!
Phala
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Nuts, I thought, I just did this one while Ben posted his. Nice one Ben. Then I discovered it still works out. Whew.
mūla
'roots', also called hetu (q.v.; s. paccaya, 1), are those conditions which through their presence determine the actual moral quality of a volitional state (cetanā), and the consciousness and mental factors associated therewith, in other words, the quality of karma.
There are 6 such roots, 3 karmically wholesome and 3 unwholesome roots, viz.,: greed, hate, delusion (lobha, dosa, moha), and greedlessness, hatelessness, undeludedness (alobha, adosa, amoha).
phala
lit. 'fruit'. -1. result, effect (often together with hetu, cause ); 2. benefit (e.g. in Sāmañña-phala Sutta, 'The Results, or Benefits, of Recluseship'; D.2).
In the roots from a source eyes don't see
from the earth come to form up a tree.
When the branches grow true
heartwood strong through and through
holds up all the good fruit that need be.
āyatana
http://www.palikanon.com/english/wtb/a/aayatana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
mūla
'roots', also called hetu (q.v.; s. paccaya, 1), are those conditions which through their presence determine the actual moral quality of a volitional state (cetanā), and the consciousness and mental factors associated therewith, in other words, the quality of karma.
There are 6 such roots, 3 karmically wholesome and 3 unwholesome roots, viz.,: greed, hate, delusion (lobha, dosa, moha), and greedlessness, hatelessness, undeludedness (alobha, adosa, amoha).
phala
lit. 'fruit'. -1. result, effect (often together with hetu, cause ); 2. benefit (e.g. in Sāmañña-phala Sutta, 'The Results, or Benefits, of Recluseship'; D.2).
In the roots from a source eyes don't see
from the earth come to form up a tree.
When the branches grow true
heartwood strong through and through
holds up all the good fruit that need be.
āyatana
http://www.palikanon.com/english/wtb/a/aayatana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
But whoever walking, standing, sitting, or lying down overcomes thought, delighting in the stilling of thought: he's capable, a monk like this, of touching superlative self-awakening. § 110. {Iti 4.11; Iti 115}
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Once three bad mulas kept burning
Fuelled by ignorance, hatred and yearning
When they said "another go?"
The Buddha said "No!"
And the gears of samsara stopped turning
Fuelled by ignorance, hatred and yearning
When they said "another go?"
The Buddha said "No!"
And the gears of samsara stopped turning
Kammalakkhano , bhikkhave, bālo, kammalakkhano pandito, apadānasobhanī paññāti
(The fool is characterized by his/her actions/the wise one is characterized by his/her actions/Wisdom shines forth in behaviour.)
(AN 3.2 Lakkhana Sutta)
(The fool is characterized by his/her actions/the wise one is characterized by his/her actions/Wisdom shines forth in behaviour.)
(AN 3.2 Lakkhana Sutta)
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Good One Phil!
But you are also supposed to put forward the next 'word'.
metta
Chris
But you are also supposed to put forward the next 'word'.
metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
A word not brought forth by Phil
Perhaps its hiding in the grill
Nathan's word ayatana
rhymes with lantana (sorta)
But don't leave it on the window sill.
Tika
Perhaps its hiding in the grill
Nathan's word ayatana
rhymes with lantana (sorta)
But don't leave it on the window sill.
Tika
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
phil had a rather quick pika
into the voluminous tika
they didn't confirm
what he wanted to quirm
so he closed them and turned to philika
note: quirm (vb) "to take the Buddha's teaching and bend it to suit one's accumulated inclinations."
philika (n) "the Dhamma according to Phil."
oops didn't catch on to the rules.
javana
into the voluminous tika
they didn't confirm
what he wanted to quirm
so he closed them and turned to philika
note: quirm (vb) "to take the Buddha's teaching and bend it to suit one's accumulated inclinations."
philika (n) "the Dhamma according to Phil."
oops didn't catch on to the rules.
javana
Kammalakkhano , bhikkhave, bālo, kammalakkhano pandito, apadānasobhanī paññāti
(The fool is characterized by his/her actions/the wise one is characterized by his/her actions/Wisdom shines forth in behaviour.)
(AN 3.2 Lakkhana Sutta)
(The fool is characterized by his/her actions/the wise one is characterized by his/her actions/Wisdom shines forth in behaviour.)
(AN 3.2 Lakkhana Sutta)
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
And, just a reminder ~
as the Deva of This Thread (Jechbi) has said in the OP:
Chris
as the Deva of This Thread (Jechbi) has said in the OP:
mettaAn important point: Please, please remember that METER is crucial. Here is the correct meter for limericks:
iamb anapest anapest (8 syllables)
iamb anapest anapest (8 syllables)
anapest anapest (6 syllables)
anapest anapest (6 syllables)
anapest anapest anapest (9 syllables)
If you deviate from that, you'll be forced to read the unabridged works of Julia A. Moore.
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Four javanas prior to Jhana
According to Abhidhamma
They're known as impulsion
So don't have convulsions
or be hampered by atimana.
nimitta
According to Abhidhamma
They're known as impulsion
So don't have convulsions
or be hampered by atimana.
nimitta
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---