Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
MATSUO BASHOBreaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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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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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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