"Like vanishing dew,a passing apparitionor the sudden flashof lightning -- already gone --thus should one regard one's self.

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More Ikkyū quotes
"that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it getsI wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind
"we're lost where the mind can't find usutterly lost
"Hearing a crow with no mouthCry in the deepDarkness of the night,I feel a longing forMy father before he was born.
"clouds very high looknot one word helped them get up there
"born born everything is always bornthinking about it try not to
"don't wait for the man standing in the snowto cut off his arm help him now
"it isn't that we're alone or not alonewhose voice do you want mine? yours?