Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHOLearn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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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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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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