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Lanxi Daolong , born in Sichuan Province, China in 1213 A.D. , was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, idealist philosopher, and is the founder of the Kenchō-ji sect, which is a branch of the Rinzai school.

Lanxi Daolong entered temple life at the age of thirteen. Due to the Mongol Conquest of the Song Dynasty in China in 1246, also driven by the new trend that Zen monks of the Southern Song Dynasty increasingly tended to voluntarily go to Japan to preach Zen Buddhism, plus the influences of his teachers and friends, he sailed to Japan to preach Zen Buddhism, and later moved to Kamakura, where he took charge of Kenchō-ji . after having accepted the invitation of Hōjō Tokiyori in 1253.Lanxi Daolongs calligraphy was famous in Japan, especially Rule of Zen . Daolong died in Kenchō-ji, and was given the Posthumous Name as Dajue Zen Master by Emperor Go-Uda . Throughout his lifetime, he made great contributions to promote Sino-Japanese cultural interactions. Wikipedia  

✵ 1213 – 13. August 1278
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“Thirty years and more
I worked to nullify myself.
Now I leap the leap of death.
The ground churns up
The skies spin round.”

Lanxi Daolong

Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6; Cited in: Eugene Thacker. " Black Illumination: Zen and the poetry of death https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/07/02/books/black-illumination-zen-poetry-death/#.Wy4PIqczZEY," Special to the JAPAN TIMES, July 2, 2016.

Death

“Zen practice is not clarifying conceptual distinctions, but throwing away one's preconceived views and notions and the sacred texts and all the rest, and piercing through the layers of coverings over the spring of self behind them. All the holy ones have turned within and sought in the self, and by this went beyond all doubt. To turn within means all the twenty-four hours and in every situation, to pierce one by one through the layers covering the self, deeper and deeper, to a place which cannot be described. It is when thinking comes to an end and making distinctions ceases, when wrong views and ideas disappear of themselves without having to be driven forth, when without being sought the true action and true impulse appear of themselves. It is when one can know what is the truth of the heart.”

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"Sayings of Daikaku" in: Trevor Leggett. Zen and the Ways, 1978. p. 58

Truth , Spring , Idea , Thinking

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