The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
MATSUO BASHOTraveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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