Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
MATSUO BASHOWinter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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The journey itself is my home.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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