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“Here in the shadow of death it is hard
To utter the final word.
I'll only say, then,
"Without saying."
Nothing more,
Nothing more.”

Dokyo Etan

Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6.

“You're a self-centered rascal, aren't you!”

Dokyo Etan

Spoken to Hakuin Ekaku; as cited in: Hakuin Ekaku (author), Norman Waddell (translator). Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin. 2010. p. xxii

“Hurrying to die,
It’s difficult to find a last word.
If I spoke the wordless word,
I wouldn’t speak at all!”

Dokyo Etan

Richard Bryan McDaniel. Zen Masters of Japan. The Second Step East. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2014. p. 122.

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