Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
MATSUO BASHOThe 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
-
-
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
MATSUO BASHO -
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
MATSUO BASHO -
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
MATSUO BASHO -
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
MATSUO BASHO -
When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
MATSUO BASHO -
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.
MATSUO BASHO -
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
MATSUO BASHO -
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
MATSUO BASHO -
The journey itself is my home.
MATSUO BASHO -
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHO -
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHO -
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
MATSUO BASHO -
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
MATSUO BASHO -
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
MATSUO BASHO -
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
MATSUO BASHO