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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

Matsuo Basho

Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
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
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Dark Expectation Old Sleep Water
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
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
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Deep Instrument One Liner
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
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
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Better Choice Leadership Life Original Poetry Reality Write
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood

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