Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHOFresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The journey itself is my home.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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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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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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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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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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