“You can’t even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don’t waste time thinking about who’s most talented.”

— Kodo Sawaki

Zen ni kike (To you) (Tokyo: Daihorinkaku, 1987)

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Japanese zen Buddhist monk 1880–1965

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