Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms. - Matsuo Basho
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
- Matsuo Basho
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it. - Matsuo Basho
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy th… - Matsuo Basho
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy th…
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. - Matsuo Basho
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves. - Matsuo Basho
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter. - Matsuo Basho
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself. - Matsuo Basho
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
Learn the rules, and then forget them. - Matsuo Basho
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
A flute with no holes is not a flute. - Matsuo Basho
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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