I Am
Basho (the restless traveller) famously regarded the outdoors his home. . .< http://is.gd/pencilclip
I felt quite at home,
as if it were mine sleeping lazily
in this house of fresh air
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
The link below sort of ties in with this homeless-as-positive theme?
http://www.mindpowernews.com/BenefitsOfMoney.htm
"Well glad you still have a pencil with which to write haiku - that's all you need to fill the well, as you well know John. It sustained Basho for a lifetime." That astute remark (by Rose van Son, a haiku editor from Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Australian Haiku Society, HaikuOz) motivated the following. . .
I Am
for a split second-
summer breeze
jp
Of course, all Matsuo was doing was confiming, symbolically, his own personal history of finding (and seeking) refuge. Sheltering in aesthetics and magico-mystical thought (of which aesthetics is the instrument thereof), from the chaos of eternal unknowing and becoming. Some (it is said) manage to escape universal chaos, and its transient cyclical forms, into nothingness - or at least the forever dawnings of formless somethingness. That is what Basho failed to dedicate his life to aquirinng, and this gave him grave doubts. However, the great man did resolve this age related crisis with his new poetic concept of lightness of living (karumi). In other words, he stopped arguing with the universe and began to live and move and have his being with a gentler touch. My own method is to regard the world as we do any baby creature:
well, apparently not-
dive-bomb
jp
05-08-13
Taking refuge in aesthetics and magico-mystical thought (of which aesthetics is the instrument thereof), from the chaos of eternal unknowing and becoming. That is the council of the sages of the ages. Basho exampled this, as we well know. Both poet and lay priest. Towards the end of his life he questioned the distraction of poetry. He went so far, for a while, as to bind his gate - against the social world - with a climbing plant (an old tradition):morning glories
bloom, securing the gate
in an old fence
Basho [trans jp]
Interesting headsup, Paul. You say: "dedicated psychogeographer, the splace invader, the flaneur, dedicated to walking without purpose" (nice sentence snippet). It may seem so, but is there really a void of intent? For my own part there's always a liminally intuited agenda, no matter how random the journey's navigational non-aim. Yes, you guessed it. Haikai voyeurism (ginko), directing exercise in fresh air...and this by any other name.
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summer evening-
I follow a crisp packet
home
♪
NOTE
It all boils down to pre-agrarian hunter-gather biology (psychosomatics).
This thing about the outdoors as home.
Every space that we pause into becomes a habitat gestalt.
The wise choose carefully by not choosing at all.
I suppose that is one of the Taoisms -
or the other.
NO PENCIL FOR NOWthese daze is sky writing in the head, transcribed from notices out of the blue
just say NO to alcohol and drugs - which ties in with this . the thing with "blue" (clear) skies is that that is the point of kuing as an evolutionary act - compared with say a trivial pursuit . this is why so many haikai pundits are false prophets (hello Michael and to a lesser extent Robert) ◠‿◠ and subliminally encourage by populist example that which they profess to eschew . (no more hard copy needed in neon Mammon wonderland)
is tempting to say nothing about "luggage" other than without it there would be no cultural background innuendo to relate and we would be left with the ghost of esp - looking for a home in some netherworld (neither world) normally occupied by the living dead .
on the subject of meditation (mediation) sufficient to say it has 2 basic phases for would be kuists :
. passive (we 'go to the pine')
. active (we report back via ku)
the former is mystical exploitation and the latter is magical coercion . Basho realised this and that gave him the concern we discussed well enough above .
"A high priest says:
"A superficial knowledge of Zen causes great harm."
I appreciate his comment"
— Basho
so in summery to all readers - do take care with your ku technique (and especially strive to counter the demons of beguiling vanity with the angels of absolute sincerity)
jp
08-08-13
http://is.gd/yyV9Lv