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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.

Matsuo Basho

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
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Better Choice Leadership Life Original Poetry Reality Write
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Journey Path Seek Wisdom
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Deep Instrument One Liner
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Oneself Solitude Sound Wind Winter
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
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Existence Plant Rope Twisted
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
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Dreams Summer Warrior
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Bone Cold Deep Fragrance Nature Perfume World
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Flower Interest Tree
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Collection Rain River Water

An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.

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