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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.

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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
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
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
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
The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Empty Intimate Relationship Unique Universe
Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Animal Butterfly Togetherness
An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Autumn Life Night Thinking Yourself
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
The journey itself is my home.
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Home Journey Myself
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve

Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.

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