With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
MATSUO BASHOYear’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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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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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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