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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

Matsuo Basho

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
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Flower Pain See True World
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
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Better Choice Leadership Life Original Poetry Reality Write
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Eat Fast Glory Morning Myself
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Oneself Solitude Sound Wind Winter
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Autumn Disappear Growth Myself Old
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Pond Sound Water
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
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Flower Interest Tree

Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

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