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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Matsuo Basho

Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Collection Rain River Water
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
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Bright Burn Moon One Liner
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Flower Interest Tree
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Age Fresh Mountain Nature Spring Time World
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Fruit Imitation Myself
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
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
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

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