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.
MATSUO BASHOBefore enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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