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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

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
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Be Yourself Identity Imitation Myself Original
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
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
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
The journey itself is my home.
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Home Journey Myself
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
Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Break Deep Frog Resonate Silence Water
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
MATSUO BASHO

Breathe Compose Dangerous Enemy Fall Hairs Mindset Tree Writing
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Knowledge Nature Tree Wisdom
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Bright Burn Moon One Liner
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Count Festival Soul Thinking
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place

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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