A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
MATSUO BASHOA flute with no holes is not a flute.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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