Previous word: Ca"nkama (walking meditation)
When his first shot landed without drama,
He thought oh what lovely kamma!
When two found the drink
Heart ached, stopped to think
This is me doing ca"nkama.
Next word:
Apo -water(fluidity, cohesion)
Theravadin limerick challenge
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Thought we'd resurrect this thread ..... Can anyone write a limerick (see post number 1 for Rulz).
Current word is Apo
With metta,
Chris
Current word is Apo
With 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
Apo -water(fluidity, cohesion)
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It's already hard to compose
A well-written passage of prose;
but when thinking in rhyme
it's a rockier time,
that more often than not doesn't flow.
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Next word:
dhutaṅga -renunciation (or, ~13 voluntary ascetic practices)
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It's already hard to compose
A well-written passage of prose;
but when thinking in rhyme
it's a rockier time,
that more often than not doesn't flow.
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Next word:
dhutaṅga -renunciation (or, ~13 voluntary ascetic practices)
- "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.
"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.
- Sedaka Sutta [SN 47.19]
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Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
I've no talent for composing limericks, but it occurs to me that the challenge-word inflected in the nominative case would make for a great song title: It Takes Two Dhutaṅgo.daverupa wrote:dhutaṅga -renunciation (or, ~13 voluntary ascetic practices)
Yena yena hi maññanti,
tato taṃ hoti aññathā.
In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
(Sn. 588)
tato taṃ hoti aññathā.
In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
(Sn. 588)
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Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
It may well take two dhutango.
For wherever she go, there a man goes.
But, I'd rather be lone
Cheek to cheek to a bone!
Than go down with you to "dhutango"..
khayānupassin — realizing the fact of decay
For wherever she go, there a man goes.
But, I'd rather be lone
Cheek to cheek to a bone!
Than go down with you to "dhutango"..
khayānupassin — realizing the fact of decay
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
It's probably true, people think -imagemarie wrote:khayānupassin — realizing the fact of decay
"That lymerick thread is extinct" -
but the word one must 'use'
can behave as mere muse...
So perhaps the thread's worth a re-think...
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obhāsa - effulgence of light; aura
- "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.
"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.
- Sedaka Sutta [SN 47.19]
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
There once was a man with an aura,
Who constantly read from the Torah.
The people from town
Said "turn those lights down."
On Tuesday's he'd wear a fedora.
Next word:
Bhikkhu
Who constantly read from the Torah.
The people from town
Said "turn those lights down."
On Tuesday's he'd wear a fedora.
Next word:
Bhikkhu
Like the three marks of conditioned existence, this world in itself is filthy, hostile, and crowded
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Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
ahem
Tranquil, the mind of a monk
So I send out this song
Listen
And enjoy
Cause it won't take long
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next word: samudda (ocean)
Tranquil, the mind of a monk
So I send out this song
Listen
And enjoy
Cause it won't take long
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next word: samudda (ocean)
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
(Dug this up from the depths.)
I’ve heard that we’ve all been a muddah
To everyone else and his bruddah.
The tears which have flowed
Throughout eons untold
Form a river that leads to samudda.
_____
Next word: bhadro (good, beneficial)
I’ve heard that we’ve all been a muddah
To everyone else and his bruddah.
The tears which have flowed
Throughout eons untold
Form a river that leads to samudda.
_____
Next word: bhadro (good, beneficial)
Sire patitthitā Buddhā
Dhammo ca tava locane
Sangho patitthitō tuiham
uresabba gunākaro
愿众佛坐在我的头顶, 佛法在我的眼中, 僧伽,功德的根源, 端坐在我的肩上。
Dhammo ca tava locane
Sangho patitthitō tuiham
uresabba gunākaro
愿众佛坐在我的头顶, 佛法在我的眼中, 僧伽,功德的根源, 端坐在我的肩上。