Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
MATSUO BASHOCollecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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