Home | Meditation | Mystic Musings | Enlightenment | Counseling | Psychic World
Mother Earth | Therapies  | EBooks | Life of Masters | Links |   Quotes | Store | Stories | Zen
Osho | Gurdjieff | Krishnamurti | Rajneesh | Ramana | Ramakrishna | Shankara | Jesus | Buddha | Yoga

    

Ikkyu Poems

1. my self of long ago

2. what will happen to buddha

3. man of original inactivity
    

4. you must travel

5. no such thing as mind

6. all are just as they are

7. to return to the sky of our native place?
    

8. who is the buddha?

9. i would like to offer you something
    

10. we have no companion

11. the real form of buddha

12. why are people called buddhas

13. original man must return

Ikkyu Poem - all are just as they are

pitiful are
people who do not know
nirvana and its eternal felicity!
how they grieve
at life, death, and mutability!

shaka, and amida too,
were originally human beings;
have i not also
the form of a man?

wonderful, indeed,
the lotus flower of the law!
however many ages may pass,
still that same colour.

the crescent moon
becomes full, and wanes,
and nothing is left;
but still, there in the dawn,
the crescent moon!

whenever we see them, all are
just as they are:
the willow is green,
the flower is red.