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

Matsuo Basho

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
Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Animal Butterfly Togetherness
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
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Count Festival Soul Thinking
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
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
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Age Fresh Mountain Nature Spring Time World
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Be Yourself Identity Imitation Myself Original
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
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Fruit Imitation Myself
The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Art Change One Liner Universe
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Autumn Life Night Thinking Yourself
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Autumn Break Up End Leaving Myself Relationship Yourself
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
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

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