Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
MATSUO BASHOOn a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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