Yugen in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 25 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 25:Yugen

There are several Japanese words and concepts that have a deep meaning. Yugen is one of them.  It is a concept borrowed from traditional Japanese aesthetics and these are heavily influenced by Japanese Buddhism. In Buddhism, as I read, everything is considered to be either evolving from or dissolving into nothingness. Yugen is a mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe that triggers a deep emotional response. It could be something as simple as a flock of birds disappearing among the clouds. However I found this particular explanation profoundly touching – “beauty that is only partially perceived, fully felt, barely glimpsed by the viewer”. Yugen is that which exists beyond what can be said and it is also not a reference to another world. It is about our world and our experiences.

The Dragon of Smoke Escaping from Mt Fuji, The beauty of dragon in a smoke.  Image reference: By Katsushika Hokusai – [1] and Jim Breen’s Ukiyo-E Gallery – Hokusai., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=172499

Poem:
While we see,
Feel and go lost,
Lose and go dreamy,
Is our moment of joy.
There are ones,
Missing every side of it,
Thinking that moment,
Will come again.

Though there is sunrise every morning, it’s never the same. Of that beauty that we get to see is only one side of it. I wonder what everyone else is seeing!  

Many Worlds Theory in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 13 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 13: Many Worlds Theory

Many Worlds theory originated from the ideas of physicist Hugh Everett in late 1950’s. Like the name says, the theory implies that there are uncountable numbers of universes. Many Worlds interpretation suggestions that every time we make a decision, there is another universe created with opposite choice. The theory is different from multiverse. There are infinite numbers of universes for every decision for every person has ever made. Be it tea or coffee, selection of breakfast, kind of dress we chose to wear, mode of transport we took, every single decision we made – accounts for the new universe we created. Every decision we take is played out in full until comes time for us to make another decision and this goes on. It is a philosophical position about how the mathematics used in quantum mechanics related to physical reality.

The quantum-mechanical “Schrödinger’s cat” paradox according to the many-worlds interpretation. By Christian Schirm – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17512691

Poem:
I don’t need quantum
Or any physics
Or multiverse
Or any science
To tell me that,
You are
In my every decision,
In my every world.

No matter what, there a few things which we would like to have in our every world. They (or that) mean the world to us. Directly or indirectly, they make us what we are, for whatever time line they exist with us.

Little I Do

little do I know
of the world
little do I care
to the world.
little is what
we do know
of each other
but,
in those little
is my world.

When you are surrounded with people who make all the sense in the world, your every single day is a bliss!

Italy – Pizza

It’s April of 2021 and Day 09 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Travel the World.” I am visiting countries from A to Z and presenting stories with 8 line poems.

Day 09 Country: Italy

Oh, yes. Pizza is a flatbread from Italian origin.  A wheat based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, onions, anchovies, olives etc. The traditional pizza is baked in a wood-fired oven at a high temperature. A formal setting pizza in Italy is served un-sliced and to be eaten using knife and fork. One has to taste the original Italian pizza which tastes lot different from the ones we regularly have. A small pizza is usually referred as pizzetta and the maker of a pizza as pizzaiolo. Below is a picture of an authentic Neapolitan Pizza Margherita.

Credits: by Valerio Capello at English Wikipedia – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=372337

Poem:

The dough,
Needs a kneed,
Gentle and hard,
Mixed, layered, baked,
Sauce, cheese, veggies,
And some love.
The recipe travels places,
Finds a life of own.

Every new travel, every new visit, builds and creates a culture. Used and misused.

China – Kung Fu

It’s April of 2021 and Day 03 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Travel the World.” I am visiting countries from A to Z and presenting stories with 8 line poems.

Day 03 Country: China

If you did not know, just like I didn’t, originally, kung fu did not just stand for martial arts but for any learning or practice that requires patience, energy, and time to complete – meaning any discipline achieved through hard work. However, yes, kung fu refers to Chinese martial arts, also called wushu and quanfa. There are many forms of kung fu and each has its own principles and techniques. Kung fu is derived from the words to mean trickery and quickness.

Credits: By Shi Deru (a.k.a. Shawn Xiangyang Liu) – http://www.free-press-release.com/news-summer-camp-with-24-7-residence-kungfu-life-style-excellence-like-training-at-the-shaolin-temple-1335901927.html

Poem:

All those tiring days,
Late night ups,
Skipped meals,
Ignored chores,
Messed up commitments,
Not acknowledged,
Stupidity,
Your kung fu.

Be alert on what you work for. Who you work for and if that makes any sense.

Bahamas – Islands and Pink Sand

It’s April of 2021 and Day 02 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Travel the World.” I am visiting countries from A to Z and presenting stories with 8 line poems.

Day 02 Country: Bahamas

Over 700 islands await to be explored in The Bahamas. Ample of them are uninhabited. The popular islands, to name a few, are Harbour Island, New Providence Island, Paradise Island, The Abacos, Andros, Bimini, The Berry Islands, the Southern Bahamian Islands, etc. It is the only place in the world where we can find beaches with pink sand. Harbour Island is known for its pink-sand beaches.

Credits: BlueOrange Studio/Shutterstock.com

Poem:

The color of the sand,
Tells its history,
The activities,
The living and the creatures,
The mineralogy.
The color of the sand,
With dust and waste,
Unique and ideal.

You will always be surrounded with goods and bad’s. But, stay yourself and unique.

Pour Your Heart Out

In the world which continually judges you, Gazes to invent and appreciate your negatives, looks beyond all your works to find your weaker points, to the foe acting friend, pour your heart out.

In the world that judges you by your appearances, rips you apart from your color and way you breathe, from the way you talk and behave, from the way you dress and present, in the world that wants to find and celebrate your flaws, pour your heart out.

While the world has its expertise, in the world which evaluates you by the world’s expertise and not by yours, the world which tells you what is correct when it thyself does not know what is, the world, decently corrupt and faithfully immoral, pour your heart out.

In the world which wants you to fall, fall because you will cry, because when you cry the world feels good, because when you cry you feel low and that is precisely why the world feels good, pour your heart out.

In the world where one person in the chain spoils the entire, lets down clan as the whole, shows up as a leader, a bad one, messes up with the whole process, destroys the culture,  questions your unprejudiced actions, pour your heart out.  

In the world where ego thinks while what others have is ego, gives advice because just like that, always stays one-sided, never sees the bigger picture, judges and judges and cries, and shouts, supports weird things, acts random and biased,  pour your heart out.

In the world which does not allow you to celebrate the little things of joy, tells you its cliché, while they can, but you can’t, while whatever you do always has a pinpoint, pour your heart out.  

In the world where you are broken into pieces, all messed up, have no direction, the ugly pieces as the world calls it, the nasty parts as the world sees it, pour your heart out.

In the world which is made up of weird rules and protocols, makes you make mistakes, tells you to be unique and tells you not be when you really do, the world which then asks you to follow the masses like another ass, pour your heart out.

Pour your heart out, because that makes you happy and no one can take that happiness away from you.  Pour your heart out because that is the way to satisfaction. Pour your heart out because that is love. Pour your heart because you are you, and you are away from judge-mentals. Pour your heart out to stay away from the lows.

Pour your heart out!   

Reductio ad absurdum

Its April of 2019 and Day 18 of A to Z Challenge. I am doing Foreign word/phrase a day and 8 line poem for it.

Word/Phrase: reductio ad absurdum
Language: Latin
Meaning: a method of disproving a premise by showing that its logical conclusion is absurd (example: the earth cannot be flat; otherwise, we would find people falling off the edge)

Poem:
it’s an inspiring world.
memes for topper,
trolls for hard work,
mocks from hater,
chatters from jealous,
ridicules from unfit.
now, haters will call this,
reduction ad absurdum.

Interpretation:
The poem presents the irony of modern society. To thrive, one needs to be focused towards goal and keep the unwanted away.

The Real and Fiction

This Post is written for the Incredible Blogger Marathon Challenge. The challenge has 10 tasks and this is the fourth one.

IBMC #04: Hunt a Haiku Challenge is a challenge where we are supposed a pick one haiku out of given and provide an interpretation to it. (Check the link for more)

Here goes my prompt:

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Haiku I picked:

sweet was the damage,
brutal was the bighearted,
when foul was the world.

Interpretation:
A lot of things happen in an imaginative world. That’s why we have fiction. It’s in this fictional world a damage is sweet. In real, though at outset one might say that the damage is over come, there is this little ‘towards-attachment’ always prevailing in the heart. There are big heart ones who easily mercy the damage and give a second chance. The sweetness comes from that mercy.

In the real world this is how it looks:
Broken heart,
Wet eyes,
Shivering mind,
Oh mankind!
Why so cruel?
Don’t I have free will?

No matter what, one has to move on:
Broken heart, glue it;
Wet eyes, dust it;
Shivering mind, Freeze it;
Oh mankind!
Be kind!
My free will,
I shall stay happy!

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