With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
MATSUO BASHOA thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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