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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 - we have no companion

more frail and illusory
than numbers written on water,
our seeking from the buddha
felicity in the after-world.

already, over the heart
not a cloud is hanging,
and no mountain is there
for the moon to hide behind.

in our way through this world
of birth and death,
we have no companion;
lonely we die,
alone we are born.

the vast flood
rolls onward
but yield yourself,
and it floats you upon it.

who sees naught,
says naught,
hears naught,
simply surpasses
the buddha