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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Basho

Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Animal Butterfly Togetherness
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
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
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Journey Path Seek Wisdom
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
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
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
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Oneself Solitude Sound Wind Winter
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Accomplishment Deep Devotion Interest Yourself
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Dreams Summer Warrior

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

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