Quote #258

September 29th, 2010 § 0 comments


After I’m gone, some of you will seclude yourselves in the forests and mountains to meditate, while others may drink rice wine and enjoy the company of women. Both kinds of Zen are fine, but if some become professional clerics, babbling about “Zen as the Way,” they are my enemies.

Ikkyu (1394-1481, zen priest and poet), trans. John Stevens, via dissolving path

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