From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
MATSUO BASHOSpring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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