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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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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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