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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.

Matsuo Basho

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Flower Pain See True World
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Deep Instrument One Liner
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
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.
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Breathe Compose Dangerous Enemy Fall Hairs Mindset Tree Writing
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
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
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
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
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Knowledge Nature Tree Wisdom
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Companion Humanity Leaving Mindset Mountain Universe Wisdom Yourself
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
MATSUO BASHO

Forget Inspirational Learning Rule

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