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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.

Matsuo Basho

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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Day Journey Myself Sea Wind
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Dark Expectation Old Sleep Water
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Age Fresh Mountain Nature Spring Time World
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
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
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Autumn Life Night Thinking Yourself
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Fruit Imitation Myself
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Bright Burn Moon One Liner
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Knowledge Learning Leaving Nature Wisdom Yourself

At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.

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