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Haikus are easy
But sometimes don't make sense
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Knut, this is Jude. Remember I told you about him? He writes poetry." Knut looked my half-Japanese self up and down. "Haiku?" he guessed. "Gesundheit," I muttered sourly.
I'm Hinata Shouyou from the concrete.
SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito
Homura-chan, you know I could never do anything that would make you cry.
I see the faces that stop by my cart here. Their smiles are hollow, their eyes are hungry. The yogi's faces are different. Silent, complete. Like the mountains around them. Asking no questions, seeking no answers, just certain, as though they knew exactly who they were.
Sakura...Thank you.
I am Otomiya Haine. I'm a spirited fifteen year old!!
Wasabi. Now hoiteys. Seriously, you'd think I really didn't know English.
Haruna: If you don't fall for her, she might kill you!...I'll protect you with all I've got!
Yoh: Thanks. Sometimes I feel like I got myself a boyfriend instead of a girlfriend.
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.
waif. They would hear his reedy voice, the one he'd had in the war. He swallowed, knew that all he had for a voice box was a little whistle cut from a willow switch. Worse - he had nothing to say. The crowd
You are so beautiful, Kami. And so strong. If you only knew how amazing you are ... I'll make you see it. I'll make you fee it.
A spiritual path for the modern samurai, but in the service of the heart, not the dictatorship of the ego.
Hyacinth. Please forgive me.
Aikido is the spirit of loving protection for all beings.
Now, let's not be hasty,' said Mik 'What exactly is a samurai, really? Do you think that's something we should know before we wish it?'
'Good point. It might turn us both into Japenese men.' She squinted at him. 'Would you still love me if I were a Japenese man?'
'Of course
The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.
Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?'
'I'm called Chocho,' Will said ...
'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!
There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.
Parabatai" said Jace. "It means a pair of warriors who fight together - who are closer than brothers. Alec is more than justmy best friend.
Kaidan's like the embodiment of lust.
Cinder," he said, "will you marry me?" Absurd, she thought. The emperor of the Eastern Commonwealth was proposing to her. It was uncanny. It was hysterical. But it was Kai, and somehow, that also made it exactly right. "Yes," she whispered, "I will marry you." Those
I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
Keiichi-kun. I found you.
Japanese things - laquers, netsuke, prints - conjure a picture of a place where sensations are always new, where art pours out of daily life, where everything exists in a dream of endless beautiful flow.
From some home a jade flute sends dark notes drifting,
Scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-yang.
Tonight, if we should hear the willow-breaking song,
Who could help but long for the gardens of home?
All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.
Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.
Sometimes the best kaizen is no kaizen at all.Kaizen-- Jon Miller
Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.
Mayoimashita. Can you help me find my cat? - Watashi
In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.
The girls had suddenly disappeared, and Haida had taken their place.
KAIROS A unique time in a person's life; an opportunity for change.
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
Hey ... You.. What's life without eyebrows, freak? Got a new listing for your bingo book right here!! A guyis going to be the next lord hokage of Konohagakure village. Uzumaki Naruto! Konoha-school NINJA!
O-Sensei was frequently head to say. 'Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to harmonize the world and make humanity one family.
Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.
Tamaki = "If not spoiled constantly, he'll die" type.
A nathion is as strong as the hearts of its women. It's warriors may be brave and many, but when the blood of it's women spills upon the earth, the battle is lost.
So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
Her name Toor Pekai means "raven tresses
Hula is the language of the heart, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawai'ian people.
But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.
Linh Cinder. The renown. The reputation. The approval rating. New Beijing's best mechanic was ... a teenager? Kai was intrigued. He was amused, but more than that, he was impressed.
There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.
N the harshest days of leaf-bare clanmate turns upon clanmate danger lurks behind familiar faces and one more warrior may be lost forever
Adventures of Lailah Gifty Akita, the wonder woman!
Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics - Loyalty being the other.
The Hikayat belongs to ALL of us. To love. To share. To cherish.
We'd better go," I say. "It's time for you to make Hmong babies."
Toua pulls free from my grasp. "You little
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"Go. Further the great Flower Clan. The mountainous homeland will sing from your victorious loins."
"You're disgusting!
Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning gatherer of beautiful things.
Don't just give up, Hachiko.
Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time.
If you keep getting up, you win.
Wagyu is something that every meat lover should experience at least once.
A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.
Make good the good in you ... and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.
The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don't rhyme
A goodbye at the gate," said Hobie. He seemed to be talking partly to himself. "That's what he would have wanted. The parting glimpse, the death haiku - he wouldn't have liked to leave without stopping to speak to someone along the way. 'A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms on the way to death.
On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.
Japanese tea ceremony,
My look is 'Poly'n'Asian' - part Polynesian native, part Asian warrior.
That's Chinese, not Japanese
Disappeare with the thunder....... Sasuke said
over 19,000 haiku about Spam - "Spamku" - have to this date been posted online.
The Yogi's ideal is a body strong in all its parts, under the control of a masterful and developed Will, animated by high ideals.
Maine Haiku
"Winter don't matter
when there's steaming lobster and
girls are steaming hot.
Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords.
The Komodo Dragon
Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love; before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool within your hips, for those of you who know no tomorrow. (Gondola no Uta)
Peaceful Warrior
The Earth, its life I am, hozhoni, hozhoni.
Two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.
This Heart at Peace is My Homeland. (Su Shih)
The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.
Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)
You are so, even when falling." (Byakuya Kuchiki)
I'm a huge anime and manga fan.
Now you can be a kikei, too.
Saku's figure before me looked like a morning glory drawn with one stroke of the brush. My only regret was that the drawing was not by the hand of a master.
Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.
In Japanese, koi no yokan means the ineluctable feeling you have, upon meeting someone for the first time, that eventually the two of you will fall in love.
The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha,
It held the shivering, the shaken limbs,
Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.
Taleenoi olngisoilechashur.
Temple of Suma
hearing the unblown flute
in the deep shade of trees
sumadera ya / fukanu fue kiku / koshitayami
A yogi is one who leaves a place a little nicer than when they arrived.
Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.
Givi<>ng>ngng> these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowi<>ng>ngng> them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea ...
Kiriwar: "I thought I smelled shit stinking up the hallway."
Shiki: "I butchered a hyena ... maybe that's why. That's what you do to a dog that betrays its master's wishes, right?
Liu pulled her behind him; a spooky beast ran towards them. It was enormous and had the body of a tiger and nine heads with human like faces; its body covered by a green and blue hair. "Kaiming.
My name is Kaida, and I am Nyiathan.
Itterasshai.
Go and come back safely.
But enough of that
here I am. Hineni! How marvelously beautiful it is today. He stopped in the overgrown yard, shut his eyes in the sun, against flashes of crimson, and drew in the odors of catalpa-bells, soil, honeysuckle, wild onions, and herbs.
producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The
Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.
Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.
Bushido. The sense of honor which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power, - that was the strongest of motives.