Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
MATSUO BASHOOld pond, frog jumps in – plop.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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The journey itself is my home.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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The 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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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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