At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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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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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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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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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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