Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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