“born born everything is always bornthinking about it try not to”
— Ikkyu
“clouds very high looknot one word helped them get up there”
— Ikkyu
“Like vanishing dew,a passing apparitionor the sudden flashof lightning — already gone –thus should one regard one’s self.”
— Ikkyu
“Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.”
— Ikkyu
“sick of it whatever it’s called sick of the namesI dedicate every pore to what’s here”
— Ikkyu
“I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.”
— Ikkyu
“that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it getsI wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind”
— Ikkyu
“I’d love to give you somethingbut what would help?”
— Ikkyu
“Hearing a crow with no mouthCry in the deepDarkness of the night,I feel a longing forMy father before he was born.”
— Ikkyu
“it isn’t that we’re alone or not alonewhose voice do you want mine? yours?”
— Ikkyu
“don’t wait for the man standing in the snowto cut off his arm help him now”
— Ikkyu
“we’re lost where the mind can’t find usutterly lost”
— Ikkyu