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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 - my self of long ago

a rest on the way back
from the leaky road
to the never-leaking road;
if it rains, let it rain;
if it blows, let it blow.

my self of long ago,
in nature non-existent;
nowhere to go when dead,
nothing at all.

when asked, he answered;
no question, no answer;
then master daruma
must have had
nothing in his mind.

our mind --
without end,
without beginning,
though it is born, though it dies --
the essence of emptiness!

all the sins committed
in the three worlds
will fade and disappear
together with myself.