Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Death poem of a Japanese Zen Master

 





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Empty-handed I entered
the world 
Barefoot I leave it. 
My coming, my going — 
Two simple happenings 
That got entangled.

Like dew drops 
on a lotus leaf 
I vanish.


—Shinsui, 1769


 
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