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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 - what will happen to buddha

if at the end of our journey
there be no final resting place,
how can there be
a way to lose ourselves in?

shakyamuni,
that mischievous creature,
having appeared in the world,
misled, alas,
how many people!

the mind --
what shall we call it?
it is the sound of the breeze
that blows through the pines
in the indian-ink picture.

the mind remaining
just as it was born --
without any prayer
it becomes the buddha.

tell a lie,
and you fall into hell.
then what will happen to buddha
who contrived
things that don't exist?