A flute with no holes is not a flute.
MATSUO BASHOCome out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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 basis of art is change in the universe.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
MATSUO BASHO