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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.

Matsuo Basho

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
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Forget Inspirational Learning Rule
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Goodness Hide Mystery Poem Reveal
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Count Festival Soul Thinking
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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Deep Enough Gide Leaving Object Subject Yourself
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Knowledge Nature Tree Wisdom
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Flower Pain See True World
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 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
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Flower Food Love Poverty Togetherness
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Day Journey Myself Sea Wind

How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.

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