Kozan Ichikyo
Died on the twelfth day of the second month, 1360 at the age of seventy-seven.
"Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going-
Two simple happenings
That got entangled."
A few days before his death, Kozan called his pupils together, ordered them to bury him without ceremony, and forbade them to hold services in his memory. he wrote this poem on the morning of his death, laid down his brush, and died sitting upright.
Died on the twelfth day of the second month, 1360 at the age of seventy-seven.
"Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going-
Two simple happenings
That got entangled."
A few days before his death, Kozan called his pupils together, ordered them to bury him without ceremony, and forbade them to hold services in his memory. he wrote this poem on the morning of his death, laid down his brush, and died sitting upright.
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drexel:
one of the austin powers movies...it's all kind of a blur actually, it's just one of those things i randomly say.
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