Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHOSadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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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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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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