Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHONo matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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