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Medicinal Eating.

The eating of four-legged animals was (is?) considered unclean,
but in winter so as to keep up one's strength the Middle Way allowed
a Mahayana-Buddhist to eat it in a medicinal way. Chopsticks are
contaminated by the deer meat, so it was thoughtful to bring one's own.

The Buddha Himself was a year-round meat eater and the first food
He ate after He walked away from the Bodhi-Tree was pork !!
Vegetarianism in India came into fashion centuries after His death.

Medicinal Eating At Yosa Buson's Home:

Say it softly:
medicinal eating applies
the Five Virtues !!

Medicinal eating,
the house next door husband
brings his own chopsticks.

Our visiting monk,
he falls asleep like a badger
at our medicinal eating.

My wife and children's
sleeping faces I watch as well
at our medicinal eating.

Medicinal eating,
don't talk to anyone
about Deer Valley !!



[白狐]

shizushizu to
gotoku suekeri
kusuri-gui.

kusuri-gui
tonari no teishu
hashi jisan.

kyaku-sou
tanuki-neiri ya
kusuri-gui.

tsuma ya ko no
ne-gao mo mietsu
kusuri-gui.

kusuri-gui
hito ni kataru-na
shishiga-dani.

#853-854-857-856-855.

"Sh-sh" / the-Five-Virtues (acc.) applies / medicinal eating (nom.)."
"Medicinal eating / house-next-door husband / chopsticks bringing."
"Visiting-monk / badger-sleep-falls -- / medicinal eating."
"Wife and children's / sleeping-faces as-well I-watch."
"Medicinal eating / to-people talk-don't / (about) Deer Valley."

Thanks to: http://tangorin.com/

Source haiku: The Collected Haiku Of Yosa Buson,
translated by W.S. Merwin & Takako Lento.
[Who did a piss-poor job at it, by the way!!]

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Medicinal Eating.