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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Age Fresh Mountain Nature Spring Time World
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
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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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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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
The journey itself is my home.
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Home Journey Myself
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Existence Plant Rope Twisted
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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