First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
MATSUO BASHOHow I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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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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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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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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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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