“Full of great changes
My three and fifty years have been.
I commented on the holy writ - a heavy sin
That echoes to the skies.
Now I will sail on the lake of lotus blooms
And break into the skies within the water.”

— Tetsugen Doko

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

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