Tetto Giko Quotes

Tetto Giko was a Japanese Zen monk, artist and poet.

✵ 1295 – 1369
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Tetto Giko Quotes

“The truth is never taken
From another.
One carries it always
By oneself.
Katsu!”

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

“I look now at the very moment
Even the Buddha is dumbfounded.
All turns with a swing.
I land on the plain of nothingness.”

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