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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

Matsuo Basho

Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Drop Spring Tree
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
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
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
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
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Deep Instrument One Liner
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Awake Ice Night Sound Water
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
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
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
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
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See

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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