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“Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning -- already gone --
thus should one regard one's self.”
― Ikkyu

“Having no destination,
I am never lost.”
― Ikkyu

“Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.”
― Ikkyu

“Look at the cherry blossoms!
Their color and scent fall with them,
Are gone forever,
Yet mindless
The spring comes again.”
― Ikkyu

“Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.
A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an invaluable treasure.
Dusk rain on the river, the moon peeking in and out of the clouds;
Elegant beyond words, he chants his songs night after night.”
― Ikkyu

“that stone Buddha deserves all the
birdshit it gets
I wave my skinny arms like a tall
flower in the wind”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names
I dedicate every pore to what's here”
― Ikkyu

“it isn't that we're alone or not alone
whose voice do you want mine? yours?”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“I'd love to give you something
but what would help?”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“we're lost where the mind can't find us
utterly lost”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“fucking flattery, success, money.
I just sit back and suck my thumb.”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“don't hesitate get laid that's wisdom
sitting around chanting what crap”
― Ikkyu

“Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born.”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“clouds very high look
not one word helped them get up there”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“don't wait for the man standing in the
snow
to cut off his arm help him now”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“born born everything is always born
thinking about it try not to”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“the wise know nothing at all
well maybe one song”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“why is it all so beautiful this fake dream
this craziness why?”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry
but poems flare in my heart”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“pleasure pain are equal in a clear heart
no mountain hides the moon”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“this boat is and is not
when it sinks both disappear”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“don’t worry please please how many times do I have to say it
there’s no way not to be who you are and where.”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“flowers are silent silence is silent the mind
is a silent flower the silent flower of the world opens”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.”
― Ikkyu

“even before trees rocks I was nothing
when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“I was like an old leafless tree until we met green buds burst and blossom

now that I have you I'll never forget what I owe you”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“Watching my four year old daughter dance
I cannot break free of her.”
― Ikkyu

“sometimes all I am is dark emptiness
I can't hide in the sleeves of my own robes”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“all the bad things I do will go up in smoke
and so will I”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.
A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an invaluable treasure.”
― Ikkyu, Wild Ways: Zen Poems of Ikkyu