Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHOThe sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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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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