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

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
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Creation Life Master Poem Poet Time Writing
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Fruit Imitation Myself
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Dark Expectation Old Sleep Water
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
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
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Autumn Break Up End Leaving Myself Relationship Yourself
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
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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Clear Conscious Purity Realize Service Water Yourself

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