Matsuo Basho Quotes About Water

Quotes about: 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

• Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.

  Matsuo Basho

  Rain, Rivers, Water

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

  Matsuo Basho

  Ice, Water, Sound

• 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

• 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.

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