Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
MATSUO BASHOThe universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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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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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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