Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
MATSUO BASHOCome, see the true flowers of this pained world.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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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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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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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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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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