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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?

Matsuo Basho

Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Dark Expectation Old Sleep Water
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
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Flower Food Love Poverty Togetherness
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Awake Ice Night Sound Water
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
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
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
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
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom

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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