There was a young novice, named Luca
who abided in the state of Sukha
When once asked, 'How so?'
He replied, 'Don't you know?
Just give up the old "Filthy lucre!" '
Kamaguna
Theravadin limerick challenge
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Hello all,
Great to see the latest writings!
Just a reminder of the instructions by the Deva of this thread Jechbi:
Chris
Great to see the latest writings!
Just a reminder of the instructions by the Deva of this thread Jechbi:
mettaJechbi said: An important point: Please, please remember that METER is crucial. Here is the correct meter for limericks:
iamb anapest anapest
iamb anapest anapest
anapest anapest
anapest anapest
anapest anapest anapest
If you deviate from that, you'll be forced to read the unabridged works of Julia A. Moore.
Chris
---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 ---
---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 ---
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
While eating a salad of tuna
I was reminded of my kamaguna
I decided to strive
to evict it by five
and abide in the luminous rays of the luna
ditthi
I was reminded of my kamaguna
I decided to strive
to evict it by five
and abide in the luminous rays of the luna
ditthi
“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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- 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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Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
I think it is really a pity
I just cannot understand dhitti!
Try as I might.
my knowledge is slight,
And my grasp of the concept quite S*itti!
Vijja
I just cannot understand dhitti!
Try as I might.
my knowledge is slight,
And my grasp of the concept quite S*itti!
Vijja
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
http://www.armchairadvice.co.uk/relationships/forum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
http://www.armchairadvice.co.uk/relationships/forum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Here's the list again.....
Ahimsa
Anagami
Anatta
Anicca
Ariya-puggala
Ayatana
Buddha
Dhamma
Ditthi
Dukkha
Issa
Javana
Kamaguna
Karuna
Khanti
Kilesa
Majjhima
Mana
Manasikara
Mangala
Metta
Mudita
Mula
Nekkhama
Nibanna
Nimitta
Paccaya
Panna
Papanca
Phala
Piti
Punnabhava
Recluse
Rupa-kalapa
Sacca
Samvega
Sanyojana
Sati
Sekha
Tadi
Tanha
Thitibagiya
Tika
Upekkha
Vedana
Vichikicca
Views
Vijja
Vipaka
Viriya
Yakkha
Ahimsa
Anagami
Anatta
Anicca
Ariya-puggala
Ayatana
Buddha
Dhamma
Ditthi
Dukkha
Issa
Javana
Kamaguna
Karuna
Khanti
Kilesa
Majjhima
Mana
Manasikara
Mangala
Metta
Mudita
Mula
Nekkhama
Nibanna
Nimitta
Paccaya
Panna
Papanca
Phala
Piti
Punnabhava
Recluse
Rupa-kalapa
Sacca
Samvega
Sanyojana
Sati
Sekha
Tadi
Tanha
Thitibagiya
Tika
Upekkha
Vedana
Vichikicca
Views
Vijja
Vipaka
Viriya
Yakkha
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
http://www.armchairadvice.co.uk/relationships/forum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
http://www.armchairadvice.co.uk/relationships/forum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
There once was a man from Samsara
Who decided to drive to Nirvana
He pressed on the gas
But the car had no sass...
So he decided to stay home in Guyana.
Sorry ... that was terrible.
Who decided to drive to Nirvana
He pressed on the gas
But the car had no sass...
So he decided to stay home in Guyana.
Sorry ... that was terrible.
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Hello genkaku,
It wasn't terrible at all.
Only things you did incorrectly was to take a word from Fede's signature instead of the set word from the last limerick by Fede (vijja) ~ and then, to not put up the new 'word' for the next victim.
Don't worry ~ only 40 lashes from the Thread Deva (jechbi) for a first offense.
metta
Chris
It wasn't terrible at all.
Only things you did incorrectly was to take a word from Fede's signature instead of the set word from the last limerick by Fede (vijja) ~ and then, to not put up the new 'word' for the next victim.
Don't worry ~ only 40 lashes from the Thread Deva (jechbi) for a first offense.
metta
Chris
---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 ---
---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 ---
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Chris says Jechbi angry thread deva
Will string you up and beatya!
Naughty genkaku
author of thoughtful flak
says Why? Its just another kriya!
biḷibiḷikā
Will string you up and beatya!
Naughty genkaku
author of thoughtful flak
says Why? Its just another kriya!
biḷibiḷikā
“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
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- 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
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Fede
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Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
As I sat eating veggie tikka,
and taking a swig from my beaker,
I remarked loud and clear
So that all could hear
this thread's a load of old biḷibiḷikā!
Apajjhāyati
and taking a swig from my beaker,
I remarked loud and clear
So that all could hear
this thread's a load of old biḷibiḷikā!
Apajjhāyati
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
http://www.armchairadvice.co.uk/relationships/forum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
http://www.armchairadvice.co.uk/relationships/forum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Wow, excellent challenge.
Apajjhāyati
Apajjhāyati? Why spend the time?
It's a word that we can't even rhyme.
Yet we try hard to muse,
ponder, think, stir up views.
Hmmm. This limmerick's almost a crime.
Hard to believe we haven't yet tackled Sangha. Any takers?
Apajjhāyati
Apajjhāyati? Why spend the time?
It's a word that we can't even rhyme.
Yet we try hard to muse,
ponder, think, stir up views.
Hmmm. This limmerick's almost a crime.
Hard to believe we haven't yet tackled Sangha. 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.
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Buddha Dhamma Sangha - Three Gems
Blessed gifts for you and for me
Those lost in Samsara
Lobha Dosa Moha
By devotion and practice, win free.
pariyatti .... "learning the doctrine' , 'wording of the doctrine'
Blessed gifts for you and for me
Those lost in Samsara
Lobha Dosa Moha
By devotion and practice, win free.
pariyatti .... "learning the doctrine' , 'wording of the doctrine'
---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 ---
---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 ---
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
How did everyone resist this one for so long?
pariyatti
There once was a young man from Kandy
who thought pariyatti jim dandy.
Then he studied patipatti
and practiced it exactly
for the pativedha disbandy.
vayānupassanā
pariyatti
There once was a young man from Kandy
who thought pariyatti jim dandy.
Then he studied patipatti
and practiced it exactly
for the pativedha disbandy.
vayānupassanā
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}
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Come practice vipassanā
for the duration of the sassana
You'll get your nana
While eating a banana
and disappear during vayānupassanā!
Nekkhamma
for the duration of the sassana
You'll get your nana
While eating a banana
and disappear during vayānupassanā!
Nekkhamma
“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
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- 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
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
nekkhamma
The Noble One's renunciation,
non-ill will for Mara's frustration
and harmless intention
disinclined to contention
inclined to nekkhamma's perfection.
mada
http://www.palikanon.com/english/wtb/g_m/mada.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Noble One's renunciation,
non-ill will for Mara's frustration
and harmless intention
disinclined to contention
inclined to nekkhamma's perfection.
mada
http://www.palikanon.com/english/wtb/g_m/mada.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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}
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Mada
There is a vain woman named Mada
who spends all her money on Prada.
All her outfits are new,
yet she always feels blue,
and she won't find the path till she's gotta.
Sasana
There is a vain woman named Mada
who spends all her money on Prada.
All her outfits are new,
yet she always feels blue,
and she won't find the path till she's gotta.
Sasana
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.
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.