Theravadin limerick challenge

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This is about Buddha's Dhamma -
Which contains more than just kamma
Dhamma practice is hard
To have compassion and love
and See All Things As They Really Are!

"ahimsa"
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
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There was a young man in a car,
He had an expensive Renoir,
He suddenly crashed,
The painting was trashed,
And he failed to maintain Ahiṃsā

<shrugs> It's really hard to do, but I had a go!

How about the topic 'of the moment': Punabbhava :D
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The previous poster was Mawkish
Punabbhava I took to be hawkish
I don't want to quibble
I'd better just scribble
and any contentions just squashish

whew.
moving on

(from accesstoinsight)
ariya-puggala [ariya-puggala]: Noble person; enlightened individual. An individual who has realized at least the lowest of the four noble paths (see magga) or their fruitions (see phala). Compare puthujjana (worldling).

(side note: just reflected that either we need to keep an ongoing complete list of past terms or eventually allow for poss. unintended reuse as the list grows, no problem with me either way. Really having fun with it y'all.
:toast: Cheers.)
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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There once was an ariya-puggala
Who had a pugilistic ullala
He didn't cry
nor uttered a sigh
When pained by vedanas angular

Anagami
“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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Good Heavens Ben! There is such a word as 'Ullala" according to the Pali English Dict.:

1. Unnala & Unnaḷa : (page 138)
117 (oṇamati +); Vism 306. -- Caus. unnāmeti (q. v.). -- pp. unnara & uṇṇata (q. v.).
Unnala & Unnaḷa
Unnala & Unnaḷa (adj.) [Bdhgh. has ud + nala; but it is either a dissimilated form for *ullala (n > l change freq., cp. P. nangala > lāngala; nalāṭa > lalaṭa) from ud + lal to sport, thus meaning "sporting, sporty, wild" etc.; or (still more likely) with Kern, Toev. s. v. a dial. form of unnata P. uṇṇata, although the P. Commentators never thought of that. Cp.
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An Anagami in Montana
Worked to realise Nibbana
Freed from the five fetters
He followed his betters
and was reborn in Suddhavasa

"paccaya"
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
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Paccaya

Some say that the chicken came first.
"No," others insist. "It's reversed!"
Paccaya's the egg?
I'm not pulling your leg:
It's a puzzle that has us all cursed.


Mangala
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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maṅgala : [adj.] auspicious; royal; lucky; festive. (nt.), festivity; good omen; ceremony; prosperity.

maṅgalasupina : [nt.] a lucky dream.
maṅgalakolāhala : [m.] dispute about auspicious things or acts.



I once had a maṅgala sign.
Hard to define at the time.
Maṅgalasupina? Not so much.
Maṅgalakolāhala? Such and such.
Have to hesitate in calling it "mine".


:smile:

ṭhitibhāgiya : [adj.] lasting; connected with duration.
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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thitibhagiya? - scratches her head :shrug:
Let's try ultimate sacca instead?
Not onlyTwo of them
Far better - Four of them
It's the Noble Way Buddha has led.

"māna " conceit, pride
---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 ---
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Māna

This limerick's so full of māna,
it's softer than a ripe banana.
But my bubble will burst
as I rhyme the last verse:
I try hard but find I just cannot.


:console:

Buddha
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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Just to keep a bit of a record:

We've put rhythm into these words so far (and the one missed):

Anicca
Anatta
Nibanna
Sati
Dukkha
Recluse
Views
Metta
Karuna
Upekkha
Panna
Mudita
Vedana
Tanha
Khanti
Viriya
Samvega
Sekha
Dhamma
Ahimsa
Punnabhava
Ariya-puggala
Anagami
Paccaya
Mangala
Thitibagiya
Sacca
Mana
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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. :anjali:

"Yakkha"
---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 ---
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I am no poet, but a yakkha
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

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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
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Please explain! :D

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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.
“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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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.
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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