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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

Matsuo Basho

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 weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Dreams Summer Warrior
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
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
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Flower Interest Tree
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Flower Food Love Poverty Togetherness
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree

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