Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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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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