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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.

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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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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
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Be Yourself Identity Imitation Myself Original
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
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
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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