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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Autumn Disappear Growth Myself Old
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Forget Inspirational Learning Rule
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
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
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
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
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
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
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Animal Call Darkness Sea White Wild
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Count Festival Soul Thinking
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
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
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
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Be Yourself Identity Imitation Myself Original
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Air Home Quite Sleep

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