Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHOThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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The journey itself is my home.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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