Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
MATSUO BASHOCollecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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