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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
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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Companion Humanity Leaving Mindset Mountain Universe Wisdom Yourself
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Day Journey Myself Sea Wind
When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Autumn Cold Feeling Lips Myself Talk Voice Wind
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Dreams Greatness Summer
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Avoid Believe Break Desire Divine Human Myself Noise Silence Sound
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Fruit Imitation Myself
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Flower Interest Tree
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Oneself Solitude Sound Wind Winter
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Knowledge Nature Tree Wisdom
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree

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