There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
MATSUO BASHOAround existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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