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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Forget Inspirational Learning Rule
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
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
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
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
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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Flower Moon Nature See Thinking Yourself
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Pond Sound Water

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