Galileo
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo
Yes, this is a good example of not becoming lost in faery for a year and a day. The problem of glamour. There was dull stasis over Europe and the Middle East (as the world deployed after Rome's big fire), and then the light came on, again. And, in their natural order, all things began to stretch into the sun. Tropism. But, firstly the sun touched the local 10,000 things. What does this mean? It means that ideas find us, we discover absolutely nothing. Nothing at all. To 'discover' this is to learn haiku. When we engage with the living wind we leave our selves behind. More or less. In this equation is the root of the poisoned soul. For, if even one dust mote of vanity coats our lens, then to that proportion and through repetition, we are sullied unto eternity. Fortunately there are safeguards - up to a point. Once this point is exceeded, however, the player, automatically predicated by their attempt at usury of the living wind, becomes irrevocably demonic for a karmically scaled default period - albeit it the form of a figurative or geometrical angel. The sad chronicle of hymns and other magic songs is a parallel to our haiku fidelity problem, here and now - with much historical precedent as cautionary tale.
through bubbles
in an old bucket, apples
not kittens
jp
(Commenting on a teaching transmitted by The Unknown Haijin, at a recent interview - 1/3 scheduled for release, by Global Haiku News: Hallowe'en, 2011)
NOTE In the theatre of memory this haiku was caught (studio haiku). That same bucket, other than apple bobbing, had a more colourful history, though. As kids we notice these sorts of things.
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27-10-11
Addendum 1: (basic aphorism). . . .
"If haiku is attempted with ego-bias then this confirms vanity's delusions and occludes the light. I'd say most would agree that this is atavistic and causes dis-ease between nutritious decay and evolution's blossoming tropism." — The Unknown Haijin
By which TUH means, I guess: FAULTY AND/OR ABUSED HAIKU TECHNIQUE CAN BACKFIRE ON THE PLAYER SENSE OF SELF. This damages the writer and any readers and sends bad vibes into the prevailing social matrix (and beyond).
Addendum 2: (mystic truism expanded as process not object). . . .
"One single moment at the living wind's ubiquitous core increasingly encompasses the boundless." — The Unknown Haijin
To which we must add: "...for good or ill."
jp