zerothehero

you touch me with words
and with the heart and kind thoughts
behind their fingers

Kensho

into the ocean
of deep Universal Mind
I let myself fall

Kensho

my haiku colleagues
teaching me a true art form
as we go I bow

Kensho

ocean streams of light
envelope fill flow in me
namu amida!

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Amida Buddha is the Buddha of limitless light (amida). namu means “I take/find refuge in”. I often use, as a mantra, my version of the nembutsu of Japanese Shin Buddhism: namu amida buddha. I woke up this morning—after having finally fallen asleep after a restless night—with that mantra running through my mind. (I tend to view Amida in symbolic, not in actual, terms—as a symbol of “Buddha Nature”, Original Mind”, etc.—no matter.)

zerothehero

being in the now
but repressing the future
that is sure to come

zerothehero

i've nothing to say
i'm but a shell of a man
hardened and brittle

Elseware

A baby is born
She's creamy and pink
Truly I'm jealous

I'm old but not wise
Covered with scars that don't heal
Mistakes regretted

Elseware

I wish my head would crack
Maybe the nightmares will get out
My soul's lost in there

Or if it did crack
Maybe the nightmares will get in
My soul will get smeared

But everywhere I go I'm still
stuck here in this same damned place
Cracked my head today

Elseware

Special pal, Zero
I hope I'm reading this wrong
But I don't think so

I'm afraid for you
Your haiku are dark and grim
My heart aches for you

You beg for relief
And yes, this is all there is
I'm sorry to say

But start where you are
I never did pleasant well
It's better than dark

Do not let dark stay
Ah, yes, well. Look whose talking
The queen of darkness

Know I care for you
I am not a prayer-er be
Here's an exception

Gilmer

I pray for you both!
I hate to see you suffer.
Want the best for you.

Kensho

having to write it all
in the haiku dsicpline
is itself practice

for healing the dark
and frightening mind afraid
itself of such form

keep writing haiku
until the demons are all
dispelled in the light!

zerothehero

glimmers of clear light
peek through my swiss cheese aura
damaged by abuse

zerothehero

waiting at the doc's
office to learn whether or
not i have cancer

zerothehero

they'll take out stitches
and wish me merry christmas
or tell me to pray

zerothehero

Phone ain't cooperating

zerothehero

they'll take out stitches
and wish me merry christmas
or tell me to pray

zerothehero

my wife is puking
and i feel it coming on
happy holidays

zerothehero

negativity
needs to stop i know better
but i'm just not well

zerothehero

my mind and body
are so intwined but they're not
helping each other

zerothehero

"It doesn't look good
so we're cutting the rest out
to send to the lab."