Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
MATSUO BASHOGo to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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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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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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