Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
MATSUO BASHOWhen I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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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 journey itself is my home.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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