Theravadin limerick challenge

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Persevere Ajahn!

This is fun. :clap:

metta and respect,
Chris
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Now paññā's one of the Perfections
It'll bring a fortunate birth
grit your teeth, hone your will
Keep Precepts, Study well
paññā leads one to Liberation.


"mudita"
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Mudita

There was a sad person named Lee.
He was cranky as cranky can be.
But one day he smiled
at a kind-hearted child
and my heart warmed as if it were free.


How about: Vedana
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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Vedana

this feeling is feeling a feeling
that feels like a feeling is feeling
around it congealing
thoughts further concealing
this feeling thats feeling a feeling


tanha
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}
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Hello all,

I think you ought to include the "word" in the limerick. :rules:

Too easy otherwise.

metta
Chris
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---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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Its still too easy!

I say you should be writing your limericks in pali!
Someone else can go first!
“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.”
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Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
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Dude, this is hard. We just make it look easy. :wink:
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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Chris wrote:Hello all,

I think you ought to include the "word" in the limerick. :rules:

Too easy otherwise.

metta
Chris
The guidelines are already here and the form is free cause we are not complaining about it, isn't it great, like a game where there is no prize for the winner and no penalty for the looser. Just for fun. Did you not read the Venerable's limerick? It was great as it is. In fairness if you wish to make new rules simply start a new thread. Otherwise, enjoy yourselves as you would like. With all possible metta, please stop gritting your teeth, it is hard on the jaw and could cause headaches and will not lead to panna except maybe about mandible trauma and dental wear. Just kidding. And sorry about not looking up recluse. I was so tired by the time I did that one that I just went to sleep. I will go get it. Just get me all the spellings for the various tenses and usages of vedana. I'll call it even. hahahaha

Ok, here's what I found, now I am too tired to play. Have fun.

recluse pavivitta (adj.), samaṇa (m.), pabbajita (m.), paribbājaka (m.)

view mati (f.), vāda (m.), mata (nt.), ikkhita (pp.), ikkhati (v.t.), apekkhāya (v.t.), cakkhupatha (v.t.), dassana (v.t.), dassanūpacāra (v.t.), diṭṭha (v.t.), diṭṭhi (v.t.), nirikkhaṇa (v.t.), oloketu (v.t.), olokita (v.t.), parikkhaṇa (v.t.), passati (v.t.), upaparikkhati (v.t.), upaparikkhita '' field of view: dassanapatha (m.), with a view to: ajjhāsayena (m.)
view holder matapakāsaka (m.), vādī (m.)
view point matabheda (m.)
viewless adissamāna (adj.)

feeling sacetana (adj.), vedanā (f.), anubhavana (nt.), anukampā (nt.), dayā (nt.), parāmasana (nt.), paṭisaṃvedī (nt.), phusana (nt.), saññā (nt.)
feelingly sānukampaṃ (adv.)

any one you like or tanha or whatever is fine with me :smile:

I once had an itchy vedana
in the middle of satipatthana
in the middle of spring
an uncomfortable thing
but it took me into the next nana

Tanha
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Chris wrote:I think you ought to include the "word" in the limerick. :rules:

Too easy otherwise.
I'm game. :smile:

Tanha

Oh, Tanha, I treasure you so.
Right into this lim'rick you go!
Yet still I'm unhappy.
Why can't this be snappy?
Upadana is next, I just know.


:toast:

Actually, I'd like to see someone tackle khanti next. Any takers?
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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Well done all!
This is a great thread!
Cheers

Ben
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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

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Opps - strike that attempt - :cry: need to do something about the last line rhyming with the first two.
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o.k. .... second attempt

There was a man who was busy
He lived his life in a tizzy
No time for taking care
All vehicles beware
Safe driving's conditioned by khanti

'viriya'
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Speaking of young floozy Lydia
Ordained as 'Bhikkhuni Viriya
While eating a banana
She bid goodbye to samsara
And graduated from numbskull to ariya

samvega
“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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The main cause of watching the breath
Is birth old age sickness and death
Without samvega's spur
I'm such a lazy cur
And would give in to torpor and sloth.

"sekha"
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Sekha

For the sekha, the path isn't new.
There is wisdom and faith in what's true.
But there's still something more,
something left, a locked door,
something else upon which one must chew.


(edited to fix the last line. Maybe someone else can improve on the last line?)

How about an easy one: Dhamma
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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