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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.

Matsuo Basho

The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Flower Interest Tree
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Oneself Solitude Sound Wind Winter
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
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.
MATSUO BASHO

Clear Conscious Purity Realize Service Water Yourself
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Count Festival Soul Thinking
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Collection Rain River Water
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
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
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
The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Art Change One Liner Universe

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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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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