Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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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 sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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