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I feel [haiku] is a spiritual practice that is far more valuable than the poems we get out of it. The most important thing about haiku is the way it makes us look at our lives, to be aware of what we are experiencing at each moment. -- Jane Reichold
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"The word "interbeing" originated with the Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh. It means:
everything is in everything else. We experience this reality through mindfulness, through Being
in the Here and Now. One life-energy is permeating everything.
Haiku means letting this energy/life/reality write itself.
Or, to put it simply: A haiku records an immediate experience of life.
Haiku writing is sometimes called a way of life, rather than an art. It could also be described as a
way of seeing, listening, being." -- Fr. Thomas Hand http://www.mercy-center.org/PDFs/EW/HaikuPath.pdf
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Haiku are written best and appreciated best through the intelligence of the heart. –Robert Spiess
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“when he [basho] could no longer stay idle at home because, as he put it, the gods seemed to possess his soul. He patched his trousers, repaired his bamboo hat, bid farewell to his friends, and hoisted his pack onto his bony shoulders.” – Journeys of Simplicity; Traveling Light by Philip Harnden
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Issa has objectively captured the essence of the moment: one of sudden beauty—and after, when all that’s left is the remembering. That is what a firefly is. That is what a genuine haiku is. This haiku has “the grave elegiac music which stays forever in the listening mind.” – anita virgil

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our brush against the small and ordinary connects us with the universal and eternal. The absence of the period at the end of the modern haiku is meant to leave the haiku open-ended for an echoing extension into what Blake termed "eternity's sunrise." – h.f. noyes

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The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink,
night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom
that we attend to such things ... When we are grasping the
inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living.
To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku.
It is having life more abundantly. – R.H. Blyth