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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

Matsuo Basho

Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Breathe Compose Dangerous Enemy Fall Hairs Mindset Tree Writing
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Age Fresh Mountain Nature Spring Time World
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Accomplishment Deep Devotion Interest Yourself
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal
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
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Bright Burn Moon One Liner
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
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

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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