Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
MATSUO BASHOI felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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