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Ikkyu quotes: Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

Ikkyu quotes: Fucking flattery, success, money.I just sit back and suck my thumb.

Fucking flattery, success, money.
I just sit back and suck my thumb.

Ikkyu quotes: Don't hesitate get laid that's wisdomsitting around chanting what crap

Don't hesitate get laid that's wisdom
sitting around chanting what crap

Ikkyu quotes: Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.

Ikkyu quotes: The tree is stripped,All color, fragrance gone,Yet already on the bough,Uncaring spring!

The tree is stripped,
All color, fragrance gone,
Yet already on the bough,
Uncaring spring!

Ikkyu quotes: Sick of it whatever it's called sick of the namesI dedicate every pore to what's here

Sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names
I dedicate every pore to what's here

Ikkyu quotes: Don't wait for the man standing in the snowto cut off his arm help him now

Don't wait for the man standing in the
snow
to cut off his arm help him now

Ikkyu quotes: Hearing a crow with no mouthCry in the deepDarkness of the night,I feel a longing forMy father before he was born.

Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born.

Ikkyu quotes: We're lost where the mind can't find usutterly lost

We're lost where the mind can't find us
utterly lost

Ikkyu quotes: I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry but poems flare in my heart

I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry
but poems flare in my heart

Ikkyu quotes: I was like an old leafless tree until we met green buds burst and blossomnow that I have you I'll never forget what I owe you

I was like an old leafless tree until we met green buds burst and blossom

now that I have you I'll never forget what I owe you

Ikkyu quotes: We must become what we were Before we were born

We must become what we were
Before we were born

Ikkyu quotes: Watching my four year old daughter dance I cannot break free of her.

Watching my four year old daughter dance
I cannot break free of her.

Ikkyu quotes: Break openA cherry treeAnd there are no flowers;But the spring breezeBrings forth myriad blossoms.

Break open
A cherry tree
And there are no flowers;
But the spring breeze
Brings forth myriad blossoms.

Ikkyu quotes: Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon.

Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon.

Ikkyu quotes: don't worry please please how many times do I have to say itthere's no way not to be who you are and where.

don't worry please please how many times do I have to say it
there's no way not to be who you are and where.

Ikkyu quotes: It isn't that we're alone or not alonewhose voice do you want mine? yours?

It isn't that we're alone or not alone
whose voice do you want mine? yours?

Ikkyu quotes: Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.

Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.

Ikkyu quotes: Born born everything is always bornthinking about it try not to

Born born everything is always born
thinking about it try not to

Ikkyu quotes: Having no destination,I am never lost.

Having no destination,
I am never lost.

Ikkyu quotes: pleasure pain are equal in a clear heartno mountain hides the moon

pleasure pain are equal in a clear heart
no mountain hides the moon

Ikkyu quotes: this boat is and is notwhen it sinks both disappear

this boat is and is not
when it sinks both disappear

Ikkyu quotes: That stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it getsI wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind

That stone Buddha deserves all the
birdshit it gets
I wave my skinny arms like a tall
flower in the wind

Ikkyu quotes: I and other humans no difference.

I and other humans no difference.

Ikkyu quotes: Look at the cherry blossoms!Their color and scent fall with them,Are gone forever,Yet mindlessThe spring comes again.

Look at the cherry blossoms!
Their color and scent fall with them,
Are gone forever,
Yet mindless
The spring comes again.

Ikkyu quotes: My real dwelling Has no pillars And no roof either So rain cannot soak it And wind cannot blow it down.

My real dwelling
Has no pillars
And no roof either
So rain cannot soak it
And wind cannot blow
it down.

Ikkyu quotes: Become a Buddha? The mind can't do it. The body can't do it. Only what can't become a Buddha becomes a Buddha.

Become a Buddha? The mind can't do it. The body can't do it. Only what can't become a Buddha becomes a Buddha.

Ikkyu quotes: Clouds very high looknot one word helped them get up there

Clouds very high look
not one word helped them get up there

Ikkyu quotes: I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.

I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.

Ikkyu quotes: father when I was a boy you left us now I forgive you

father when I was a boy you left us now I forgive you

Ikkyu quotes: Like vanishing dew,a passing apparitionor the sudden flashof lightning already gone thus should one regard one's self.

Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning
already gone
thus should one regard one's self.

Ikkyu quotes: I'd love to give you somethingbut what would help?

I'd love to give you something
but what would help?

Ikkyu quotes: the wise know nothing at allwell maybe one song

the wise know nothing at all
well maybe one song

Ikkyu quotes: ten dumb years I wanted things to be different furious proud I still feel it

ten dumb years I wanted things to be different furious proud I still feel it

Ikkyu quotes: here I am simply trying to get into your headyou think you were born you die what a pity

here I am simply trying to get into your head
you think you were born you die what a pity

Ikkyu quotes: even before trees rocks I was nothingwhen I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing

even before trees rocks I was nothing
when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing