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.
MATSUO BASHOBreaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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