Ikkyu Quotes: top 36 famous quotes about Ikkyu

Ikkyu Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We must become what we were
Before we were born — Ikkyu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Having no destination,
I am never lost. — Ikkyu

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

this boat is and is not
when it sinks both disappear — Ikkyu

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

I and other humans no difference. — Ikkyu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the wise know nothing at all
well maybe one song — Ikkyu

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

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

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