The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
MATSUO BASHOThe universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
MATSUO BASHOThe sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
MATSUO BASHOThe journey itself is my home.
MATSUO BASHOWhen 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.
MATSUO BASHODo not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
MATSUO BASHOWhy so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
MATSUO BASHONothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
MATSUO BASHOHow much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHOHe who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
MATSUO BASHOThe basis of art is change in the universe.
MATSUO BASHOBetween our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
MATSUO BASHOBreaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
MATSUO BASHOOn a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
MATSUO BASHOLearn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHOThe haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
MATSUO BASHOI hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
MATSUO BASHO