The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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