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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.

Matsuo Basho

Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Journey Path Seek Wisdom
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Companion Humanity Leaving Mindset Mountain Universe Wisdom Yourself
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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Empty Intimate Relationship Unique Universe
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Eat Fast Glory Morning Myself
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order 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
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
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See

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