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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!

Matsuo Basho

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Dreams Summer Warrior
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
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
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
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Awake Ice Night Sound Water
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Age Deep Destiny Forever Home Journey Life Moon Old Sun Time Travel
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
The journey itself is my home.
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Home Journey Myself
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
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
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

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!

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