Learn the rules, and then forget them.
MATSUO BASHOLearn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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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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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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