The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
MATSUO BASHOThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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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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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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