When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
MATSUO BASHOYear by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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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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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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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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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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