Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHOThe sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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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 journey itself is my home.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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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 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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