Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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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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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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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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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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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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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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