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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.

Matsuo Basho

The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Art Change One Liner Universe
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Flower Moon Nature See Thinking Yourself
When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Breathe Compose Dangerous Enemy Fall Hairs Mindset Tree Writing
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Avoid Believe Break Desire Divine Human Myself Noise Silence Sound
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Goodness Hide Mystery Poem Reveal
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Drop Spring Tree
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Accomplishment Deep Devotion Interest Yourself
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal

At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.

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