The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
MATSUO BASHOFriends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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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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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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