“Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.”

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.

Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.

Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.

An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.

Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.

Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.

Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

To truly taste the sweetness of the fruit, you must love the dirt it grows from.