Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
MATSUO BASHONot to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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