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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.

Matsuo Basho

The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Age Deep Destiny Forever Home Journey Life Moon Old Sun Time Travel
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
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Deep Instrument One Liner
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
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
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Forget Inspirational Learning Rule
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Flower Pain See True World
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Pond Sound Water
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
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

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