Zen Haikus (creation)

[zenzero]

Friends,
Zen haikus are not ordinary poetries.
They are about conciousness.
They are written as seen through a meditators eye.
Meditation is again a stage when the mind is at rest and the individual is no more [as the mind is inactive] and he is a part of the whole.
The haikus depicts the different stges of enlightenment of the poet too.
Basho 's famous haiku which most would be familiar with is:

The ancient pond
a frog jumps
PLOP

Here it is a scene where the pond is ancinet akin to creation/mind which has been there [nothing to know or dicuss about] a frog jumps akin to a though and the result is a sound of the frog jumping which meaning to say that when the mind is still and a single thought creates a big sound. A small wave of thought is clearly visible in a calm mind.

Basho wrote another haiku after 6 years of this own which again shows his having achieved total conciousness which we all know when again the rivers and rivers and mountains become mountains again.
The old pond has no walls;
a frog just jumps in;
do you say there is an echo?

Meaning that now in the calm mind the thoughts now are back as needed but they no more create ripples/echo. Thoughts now are entertained when needed but otrherwise it is quite/still/calm.

Here is another one by ISSA another ZEN poet:
A giant firefly:
that way, this way, that way, this -
and it passes by.

akin to a thought in a still mind appears giant like and if one is aware of the thought, it will move from one place to another and if the watchfullness prevails it leaves after sometime.

Those who are unable to understand the above mentioned may put across their queiries and the same will be attempted to be clarified.
Love & rgds