I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
MATSUO BASHOWhen 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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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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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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