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.
MATSUO BASHOClapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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