Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
MATSUO BASHODon’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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