so many paths go up from the foothills
but one moon grazes the peak
- Ikkyu (transl. Stephen Berg)
Netsuke depicting Ikkyu and his TAR prop skull
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
The Courtesan Jigoku-dayu and Priest Ikkyu, 1899,
by Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908)
No One Sees It The Same
No One Sees It The Same
The mind flows like water through the four
mindfulnesses never the same.
mindfulnesses never the same.
Buddha realm, Mara's fortress the then and now.
Cold wind, wind-blown snow, moon among the
plum blossoms;
plum blossoms;
The drinker toys with his cup, the poet hums
a poem.
a poem.
- Ikkyu (transl. Sonja Arntzen)
*the four mindfulnesses : this is a discipline of meditating on
the "body" to realise its impurity, on "sensation" to realise that the perception of things pleasant and unpleasant is the root of pain, on "thought" to realise its impermanence and on objects"
to realise their absence of self. p. 236 here
the "body" to realise its impurity, on "sensation" to realise that the perception of things pleasant and unpleasant is the root of pain, on "thought" to realise its impermanence and on objects"
to realise their absence of self. p. 236 here
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