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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

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
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Flower Moon Nature See Thinking Yourself
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
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 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
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Count Festival Soul Thinking
An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Autumn Life Night Thinking Yourself
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Autumn Disappear Growth Myself Old
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
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Eat Fast Glory Morning Myself
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

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