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Matsuo Basho Quotes about Water

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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Matsuo Basho
Water, Enlightenment, Woods

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.

Matsuo Basho
Wind, Lakes, Water
Matsuo Basho (2003). “A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen”, p.4, Counterpoint Press

Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice

Matsuo Basho
Ice, Water, Sound

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.

Matsuo Basho
Water, Silence, Ponds
"The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches". Book by Matsuo Bashō, 1966.

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.

Matsuo Basho
Rain, Rivers, Water

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

Matsuo Basho
Water, Sound, Ponds

At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water

Matsuo Basho
Water, Sound, Ponds

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