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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores

Matsuo Basho

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
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Oneself Solitude Sound Wind Winter
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Goodness Hide Mystery Poem Reveal
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Knowledge Nature Tree Wisdom
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Eat Fast Glory Morning Myself
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
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Flower Interest Tree

There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores

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