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

Matsuo Basho

April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
MATSUO BASHO

Balance Butterfly Leaves
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
MATSUO BASHO

Dreams Summer Warrior
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
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Collection Rain River Water
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
MATSUO BASHO

Flower Moon Nature See Thinking Yourself
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Pond Sound Water
The journey itself is my home.
MATSUO BASHO

Home Journey Myself
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
MATSUO BASHO

Garden Hope Kindness Pay
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
MATSUO BASHO

Forget Inspirational Learning Rule
Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
MATSUO BASHO

End Fan Myself Old Summer
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
MATSUO BASHO

Animal Call Darkness Sea White Wild
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.
MATSUO BASHO

Knowledge Learning Leaving Nature Wisdom Yourself
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
MATSUO BASHO

Drop Spring Tree
Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
MATSUO BASHO

Animal Butterfly Togetherness

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