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“ Beyond this life andThis world I'll have it tilMy heart's content:The bright moon that passed overThe horizon before I had my fill. ”

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Limitations gone:Since my mind fixed on the moon,Clarity and serenityMake something for whichThere's no end in sight.

~ Saigyō

Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water,Melting, murmuring from the moss.

~ Saigyō

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

~ Saigyō

Today's satori:Such a change of mind wouldNot exist withoutMy lifelong habit of havingMy mind immersed in blossoms.

~ Saigyō