Persevere Ajahn!
This is fun.
metta and respect,
Chris
Theravadin limerick challenge
Re: Theravadin limerick challenge
Last edited by cooran on Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:15 am, edited 1 time in total.
---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
Now paññā's one of the Perfections
It'll bring a fortunate birth
grit your teeth, hone your will
Keep Precepts, Study well
paññā leads one to Liberation.
"mudita"
It'll bring a fortunate birth
grit your teeth, hone your will
Keep Precepts, Study well
paññā leads one to Liberation.
"mudita"
---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
Mudita
There was a sad person named Lee.
He was cranky as cranky can be.
But one day he smiled
at a kind-hearted child
and my heart warmed as if it were free.
How about: Vedana
There was a sad person named Lee.
He was cranky as cranky can be.
But one day he smiled
at a kind-hearted child
and my heart warmed as if it were free.
How about: Vedana
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
Vedana
this feeling is feeling a feeling
that feels like a feeling is feeling
around it congealing
thoughts further concealing
this feeling thats feeling a feeling
tanha
this feeling is feeling a feeling
that feels like a feeling is feeling
around it congealing
thoughts further concealing
this feeling thats feeling a feeling
tanha
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
Hello all,
I think you ought to include the "word" in the limerick.
Too easy otherwise.
metta
Chris
I think you ought to include the "word" in the limerick.
Too easy otherwise.
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
Its still too easy!
I say you should be writing your limericks in pali!
Someone else can go first!
I say you should be writing your limericks in pali!
Someone else can go first!
“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
Dude, this is hard. We just make it look easy.
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
The guidelines are already here and the form is free cause we are not complaining about it, isn't it great, like a game where there is no prize for the winner and no penalty for the looser. Just for fun. Did you not read the Venerable's limerick? It was great as it is. In fairness if you wish to make new rules simply start a new thread. Otherwise, enjoy yourselves as you would like. With all possible metta, please stop gritting your teeth, it is hard on the jaw and could cause headaches and will not lead to panna except maybe about mandible trauma and dental wear. Just kidding. And sorry about not looking up recluse. I was so tired by the time I did that one that I just went to sleep. I will go get it. Just get me all the spellings for the various tenses and usages of vedana. I'll call it even. hahahahaChris wrote:Hello all,
I think you ought to include the "word" in the limerick.
Too easy otherwise.
metta
Chris
Ok, here's what I found, now I am too tired to play. Have fun.
recluse pavivitta (adj.), samaṇa (m.), pabbajita (m.), paribbājaka (m.)
view mati (f.), vāda (m.), mata (nt.), ikkhita (pp.), ikkhati (v.t.), apekkhāya (v.t.), cakkhupatha (v.t.), dassana (v.t.), dassanūpacāra (v.t.), diṭṭha (v.t.), diṭṭhi (v.t.), nirikkhaṇa (v.t.), oloketu (v.t.), olokita (v.t.), parikkhaṇa (v.t.), passati (v.t.), upaparikkhati (v.t.), upaparikkhita '' field of view: dassanapatha (m.), with a view to: ajjhāsayena (m.)
view holder matapakāsaka (m.), vādī (m.)
view point matabheda (m.)
viewless adissamāna (adj.)
feeling sacetana (adj.), vedanā (f.), anubhavana (nt.), anukampā (nt.), dayā (nt.), parāmasana (nt.), paṭisaṃvedī (nt.), phusana (nt.), saññā (nt.)
feelingly sānukampaṃ (adv.)
any one you like or tanha or whatever is fine with me
I once had an itchy vedana
in the middle of satipatthana
in the middle of spring
an uncomfortable thing
but it took me into the next nana
Tanha
Last edited by nathan on Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:07 am, edited 1 time in total.
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
I'm game.Chris wrote:I think you ought to include the "word" in the limerick.
Too easy otherwise.
Tanha
Oh, Tanha, I treasure you so.
Right into this lim'rick you go!
Yet still I'm unhappy.
Why can't this be snappy?
Upadana is next, I just know.
Actually, I'd like to see someone tackle khanti next. 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
Well done all!
This is a great thread!
Cheers
Ben
This is a great thread!
Cheers
Ben
“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
Opps - strike that attempt - need to do something about the last line rhyming with the first two.
---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
o.k. .... second attempt
There was a man who was busy
He lived his life in a tizzy
No time for taking care
All vehicles beware
Safe driving's conditioned by khanti
'viriya'
There was a man who was busy
He lived his life in a tizzy
No time for taking care
All vehicles beware
Safe driving's conditioned by khanti
'viriya'
---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
Speaking of young floozy Lydia
Ordained as 'Bhikkhuni Viriya
While eating a banana
She bid goodbye to samsara
And graduated from numbskull to ariya
samvega
Ordained as 'Bhikkhuni Viriya
While eating a banana
She bid goodbye to samsara
And graduated from numbskull to ariya
samvega
“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
The main cause of watching the breath
Is birth old age sickness and death
Without samvega's spur
I'm such a lazy cur
And would give in to torpor and sloth.
"sekha"
Is birth old age sickness and death
Without samvega's spur
I'm such a lazy cur
And would give in to torpor and sloth.
"sekha"
---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
Sekha
For the sekha, the path isn't new.
There is wisdom and faith in what's true.
But there's still something more,
something left, a locked door,
something else upon which one must chew.
(edited to fix the last line. Maybe someone else can improve on the last line?)
How about an easy one: Dhamma
For the sekha, the path isn't new.
There is wisdom and faith in what's true.
But there's still something more,
something left, a locked door,
something else upon which one must chew.
(edited to fix the last line. Maybe someone else can improve on the last line?)
How about an easy one: Dhamma
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.