First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
MATSUO BASHOLearn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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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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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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