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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

Matsuo Basho

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Collection Rain River Water
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
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
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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End Fan Myself Old Summer
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
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Animal Call Darkness Sea White Wild
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
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Break Deep Frog Resonate Silence Water

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

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