“Like vanishing dew,a passing apparitionor the sudden flashof lightning -- already gone --thus should one regard one's self.”
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“born born everything is always bornthinking about it try not to”
Ikkyu, Crow with No Mouth“clouds very high looknot one word helped them get up there”
Ikkyu, Crow with No Mouth“that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it getsI wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind”
Ikkyu, Crow with No Mouth“it isn't that we're alone or not alonewhose voice do you want mine? yours?”
Ikkyu, Crow with No Mouth“Hearing a crow with no mouthCry in the deepDarkness of the night,I feel a longing forMy father before he was born.”
Ikkyu, Crow with No Mouth