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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 - i would like to offer you something

whatever runs counter
to the mind and will of ordinary people
hinders the law of men
and the law of buddha.

i would like
to offer you something,
but in the daruma sect
we have nothing at all.

as ikkyu does not think of his body
as if it were his body,
he lives in the same place,
whether it is town or country.

the mind of man is without sound,
without odour;
he who answers when called
is nothing but a thief.

if we say "there is,"
people think "there is";
but though it answers,
it is not,
this mountain echo.

if we say, "there is not,"
people think "there is not,"
though it answers,
the mountain echo.