“even before trees rocks I was nothing
when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing”
― Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing”
― Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
“Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.
A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an invaluable treasure.”
― Wild Ways: Zen Poems of Ikkyu
A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an invaluable treasure.”
― Wild Ways: Zen Poems of Ikkyu
“this boat is and is not
when it sinks both disappear”
― Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
when it sinks both disappear”
― Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
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