I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
MATSUO BASHOOn a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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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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