Haiku

Perfections (Paramitas)

Action (Karma) – Fruit (Vipaka)

Generosity:

Gracious charity

Give freely loving kindness

Reverse accretions.

Morality:

Follow noble paths

Dispatch the deceitful mind

True freedom returns

Renunciation:

Grasping possessions

Retards liberation renounce

Soar into lightness

Patience:

Little time to waste

Transitory ephemeral

Composure succeeds

Energy:

Passion for virtue

Engenders determination

Vitality results

Truthfulness:

Suspend delusions

Melancholy mind impedes

The orbit to reality

Determination:

Overcome suffering

Uncorrupted intention

Refines defilement

Wisdom:

Differentiate

Objective from subjective

Liberate the mind

Equanimity:

Strive for peace and joy

Composure in all actions

Serenity follows

Loving Kindness:

Endeavor to achieve

The bodhisattva promise

Loving Compassion

These are my own renditions of Haiku, and they do not follow the style of the Japanese which usually tie the poems in with the seasons, but are designed to point out the practices of the bodhisattva

Avalokitesvara

He Who Looks Down In Mercy

The Bodhisatva of Compassion

Bodhisattva of compassion

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