From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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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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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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