Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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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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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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