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.
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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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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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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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