Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
MATSUO BASHOSummer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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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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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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