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.
MATSUO BASHOThe basis of art is change in the universe.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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