Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
MATSUO BASHOHow I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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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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The journey itself is my home.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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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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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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