How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHONothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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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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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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The journey itself is my home.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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