Ikkyu (Ikkyu Sojun): inside the koan clear mind

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inside the koan clear mind

Ikkyu (Ikkyu Sojun), Ikkyu (Ikkyu Sojun) poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Zen / Chan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Ikkyu (Ikkyu Sojun)
(1394 - 1481) Timeline

English version by
Stephen Berg

Original Language
Japanese

Buddhist : Zen / Chan

15th Century

inside the koan clear mind
gashes the great darkness

-- from Crow With No Mouth: Fifteenth Century Zen Master Ikkyu, Translated by Stephen Berg

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Themes

Night

Recommended Books

	Crow With No Mouth: Fifteenth Century Zen Master Ikkyu, Translated by Stephen Berg
	Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan, by Ikkyu / Translated by Sonya Arutzen
	The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhala Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton
	Wild Ways: Zen Poems of Ikkyu, Translated by John Stevens
	Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter, Translated by Lucien Stryk / Translated by Takashi Ikemoto

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