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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.

Matsuo Basho

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
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Count Festival Soul Thinking
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Autumn Life Night Thinking Yourself
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
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
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Bright Burn Moon One Liner
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Forget Inspirational Learning Rule
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Awake Ice Night Sound Water
I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Air Home Quite Sleep
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Existence Plant Rope Twisted

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.

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