Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
MATSUO BASHOThe moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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