A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
MATSUO BASHOGo 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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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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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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