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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Basho

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Better Choice Leadership Life Original Poetry Reality Write
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood
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
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Age Deep Destiny Forever Home Journey Life Moon Old Sun Time Travel
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Animal Call Darkness Sea White Wild
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Deep Enough Gide Leaving Object Subject Yourself
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Flower Pain See True World

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