The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.
Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It
The journey itself is my home.
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.