"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.
"born born everything is always bornthinking about it try not to
"I'd love to give you somethingbut what would help?
"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?