Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
MATSUO BASHOPlunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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When 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.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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