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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.

Matsuo Basho

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Journey Path Seek Wisdom
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal
Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Dark Expectation Old Sleep Water
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
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
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
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
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Flower Pain See True World
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Flower Interest Tree
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Knowledge Learning Leaving Nature Wisdom Yourself
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
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Goodness Hide Mystery Poem Reveal

For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.

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