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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

Matsuo Basho

From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
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
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
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
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
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
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
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Flower Pain See True World
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Drop Spring Tree
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Eat Fast Glory Morning Myself
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Knowledge Nature Tree Wisdom
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal
Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Break Deep Frog Resonate Silence Water

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