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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Basho

Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Forget Inspirational Learning Rule
Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Break Deep Frog Resonate Silence Water
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Autumn Break Up End Leaving Myself Relationship Yourself
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Day Journey Myself Sea Wind
For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Flower Food Love Poverty Togetherness
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Knowledge Learning Leaving Nature Wisdom Yourself

The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

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