Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHO
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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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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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Go 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.
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The journey itself is my home.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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