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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.

Matsuo Basho

Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Bone Cold Deep Fragrance Nature Perfume World
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Bright Burn Moon One Liner
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Drop Spring Tree
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Eat Fast Glory Morning Myself
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Count Festival Soul Thinking
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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Clear Conscious Purity Realize Service Water Yourself
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Dreams Summer Warrior
When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Autumn Cold Feeling Lips Myself Talk Voice Wind
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Existence Plant Rope Twisted

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