Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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