"Have a 'haiku moment' - when your mind stops and your heart moves." Knowing this definition is in the first pages of Margaret D. McGee's insightful book, Haiku - The Sacred Art - A Spiritual Practice in Three Lines, I scanned the book to look for the line. Doing so, I saw that inadvertently I had given this blog a name almost word-for-word the title of her Chapter One. Interestingly, my first choice had been "Haiku Moments," inspired by her book but unavailable as a blog name.
Life at its purest is haiku: sensual and sensing, communal and communing, to-the-point and from-the- heart, lived in the now. Reaching that level of purity and simplicity becomes challenged by our frenzied lifestyles, voracious egos, and restless brains and bodies. Could these complications be unintended escape mechanisms that paradoxically slip us away from the home of that for which we most truly long?
While it is doubtful that life will ever become all haiku, perhaps it can become moreso as we allow and invite haiku moments, with the mind and body stayed and the heart opened and stirred. Life as haiku is resting in and living from the simplest and truest of homes, the home that is our heart.
Hi Mary Catherine -- What a nice tribute for my book. Thank you! Best wishes for your new blog.
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