Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
MATSUO BASHOPoverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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