The basis of art is change in the universe.
MATSUO BASHODo not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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 universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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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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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
MATSUO BASHO