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Ikkyu: Studying texts and stiff meditation

Ikkyu: Studying texts and stiff meditation
   
  
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Photo: Fisherman in old Japan.
 

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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; A Fisherman)

 

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Recommended Reading:
'Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth: 15th Century Zen Master'
By Stephen Berg 

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Description:
When Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him in the sake parlors of the Pleasure Quarters. A Zen monk-poet-calligrapher-musician, he dared to write about the joys of erotic love, along with more traditional Zen themes. He was an eccentric and genius who dared to defy authority and despised corruption. Although he lived during times plagued by war, famine, rioting, and religious upheaval, his writing and music prevailed, influencing Japanese culture to this day.

"Ikkyu scandalized the Zen community of his day and is likely to scandalize some readers even now—his short poems are simultaneously bawdy, abrupt, vulgar, and reverential... It is impossible not to love the velocity and variety of his verse."
 
(The Philadelphia Inquirer)

"Stephen Berg is exactly the right poet to have translated these poems."
(Hayden Carruth, The Hudson Review)

"A deeply sensual man, Ikkyu had little patience for the fussiness of monastic life and ritual... What is especially appealing about Ikkyu's poetry is the way his sensuality infuses his Zen sensibility."
 
(American Book Review)
 
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