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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.

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
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Autumn Disappear Growth Myself Old
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
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
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Flower Food Love Poverty Togetherness
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Day Journey Myself Sea Wind
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
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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Knowledge Learning Leaving Nature Wisdom Yourself
The journey itself is my home.
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Home Journey Myself
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
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood

Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.

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