Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
MATSUO BASHOSeek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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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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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.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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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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