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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 - to return to the sky of our native place?

since the journey of life
is little but grief and pain,
why should we be so reluctant
to return to the sky of our native place?

to write something and leave it behind us,
it is but a dream.
when we awake we know
there is not even anyone to read it.

though we do not preach the doctrine,
unasked the flowers bloom in spring;
they fall and scatter,
they turn to dust.

we are born, we die.
all are the same,
shakamuni, daruma,
the cat and the ladle.

to harden into a buddha is wrong;
all the more i think so
when i look at a stone buddha.