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Dōkyō Etan – japoński mistrz zen szkoły rinzai, prekursor nowego rinzai, nauczyciel Hakuina Ekaku.

✵ 13. Grudzień 1642 – 24. Listopad 1721
Dōkyō Etan: 3   Cytaty 0   Polubień

Dōkyō Etan: Cytaty po angielsku

“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.”

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Dokyo Etan

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

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

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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!”

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Dokyo Etan

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