Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHOThe desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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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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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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