Natural, reckless, correct skill; Yesterday's clarity is to… - Ikkyū Sōjun

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Natural, reckless, correct skill; Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity The universe has dark and light, entrust oneself to change One time, shade the eyes and gaze afar at the road of heaven.

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Ikkyu (一休宗純 Ikkyū Sōjun) (1394–1481) was an eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist priest, poet and calligrapher. He was born as an illegitimate son of Emperor Go-Komatsu and was forced to become a priest in his childhood. He has been thought as one of the influential figures in establishing the Japanese tea ceremony as a master of Murata Jukō , and esteemed as such, but their historical interaction is now in question.

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Alternative Names: Crazy Cloud • Ikkyu • Ikki︠u︡ • Sodzi︠u︡n • Kyōun • Sojun Ikkyu • Ikkyū Kyōun • Kyounshi • Ikkyū Oshō • Sōjun • Ikki︠u︡ Sodzi︠u︡n • Shujun • Zen-Meister Verrückte Wolke • Sojun • Shūjun • Verrückte Wolke • Ikkyu Sojun • Sōjun Ikkyū • Kyōunshi • Ikkyuu • Ikkyū

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Having no destination, I am never lost.

It has the original mouth but remains wordless; It is surrounded by a magnificent mound of hair. Sentient beings can get completely lost in it But it is also the birthplace of all the Buddhas of the ten thousand worlds.

South of Mount Sumeru
Who understands my Zen?
Call Master Kido over-
He's not worth a cent.

Natural, reckless, correct skill; Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity The universe has dark and light, entrust oneself to change One time, shade… - Ikkyū Sōjun

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