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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.

Matsuo Basho

On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Pond Sound Water
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Journey Path Seek Wisdom
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Forget Inspirational Learning Rule
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
The journey itself is my home.
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Home Journey Myself
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Better Choice Leadership Life Original Poetry Reality Write
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
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
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
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
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Collection Rain River Water
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Knowledge Nature Tree Wisdom

I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.

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