This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHONo matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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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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