How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
MATSUO BASHOWhen 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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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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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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