Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
MATSUO BASHOYear by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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