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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.

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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Oneself Solitude Sound Wind Winter
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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End Fan Myself Old Summer
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Autumn Break Up End Leaving Myself Relationship Yourself
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Eat Fast Glory Morning Myself
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Deep Instrument One Liner
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Existence Plant Rope Twisted
When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Autumn Cold Feeling Lips Myself Talk Voice Wind
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
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
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Be Yourself Identity Imitation Myself Original
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

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