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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Knowledge Learning Leaving Nature Wisdom Yourself
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
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Drop Spring Tree
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
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
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
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
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
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
The journey itself is my home.
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Home Journey Myself
Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Dreams Greatness Summer
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal

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