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Matsuo Basho

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching 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
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
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
Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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End Fan Myself Old Summer
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
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
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
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Break Deep Frog Resonate Silence Water
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Deep Instrument One Liner
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Knowledge Nature Tree Wisdom
Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Dreams Greatness Summer

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