Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.

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

Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

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