For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
MATSUO BASHOAround existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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