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

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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Autumn Cold Feeling Lips Myself Talk Voice Wind
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
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 weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
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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Avoid Believe Break Desire Divine Human Myself Noise Silence Sound
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Creation Life Master Poem Poet Time Writing
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Forget Inspirational Learning Rule
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Art Change One Liner Universe
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
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
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Age Fresh Mountain Nature Spring Time World
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
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 temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Knowledge Nature Tree Wisdom
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal

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