Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
MATSUO BASHOYear by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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