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““Beyond this life and This world I'll have it til My heart's content: The bright moon that passed over The horizon before I had my fill.””

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Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

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Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.

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I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

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“Last year, Yoshino, I walked away bending branches To point me to blossoms-- Which now are everywhere and I can Go where I've never…

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Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

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Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here…

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Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.

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“Today's satori: Such a change of mind would Not exist without My lifelong habit of having My mind immersed in blossoms.”

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