Theravadin limerick challenge

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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."


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I'd love to see another take on Anicca.
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But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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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.

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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
“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.
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Nuts, I thought, I just did this one while Ben posted his. Nice one Ben. Then I discovered it still works out. Whew. :smile:

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.


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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
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)
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Good One Phil! :clap:

But you are also supposed to put forward the next 'word'.

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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.

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“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

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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.

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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)
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And, just a reminder ~
as the Deva of This Thread :bow: (Jechbi) has said in the OP:
An 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.
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Four javanas prior to Jhana
According to Abhidhamma
They're known as impulsion
So don't have convulsions
or be hampered by atimana.

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Wow, I've never been a Deva before (at least that I can recall).
One quick note: There's some flexibility in the number of syllables in the Iamb as well as the anapest parts of a limerick. Part of what makes a limerick fun is the percussive quality of its meter. You get some flexibility to make the magic happen. You can tell when a limerick works because when you read it out loud, it sounds like an Irishman rapping (kind of). You could play drums to it, any way.

We now return to our much-anticipated
Chris wrote:nimitta
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But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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nimitta

nāma-rūpa arising
cetasika hypnotizing
kalāpa rūpa-kāya
kalāpa nāma-kāya
nimitta advertising


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Vicikicchā

A gentleman named Laframboise
had a problem with vicikicchā.
Every time he would sit,
he'd think, "This can't be it."
And he'd go for a drink with Francois.


Nekkhamma
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But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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nekkhamma

nekkhamma has no stock and trade
in kāmāvacara kamma made
samatha-vipassanā done
sampajañña won
sacchikaranīyā dhammā is displayed


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Piti

There was a young woman so pretty
that her suiters could fill a whole city.
One fell into a funk;
he became a young monk.
And surprise! He discovered true piti.


Papañca
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.
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