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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.

Matsuo Basho

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Awake Ice Night Sound Water
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Goodness Hide Mystery Poem Reveal
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Drop Spring Tree
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Deep Instrument One Liner
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Collection Rain River Water
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
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Flower Pain See True World
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Fruit Imitation Myself
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.

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