“South of Mount Sumeru
Who understands my Zen?
Call Master Kido over-
He's not worth a cent.”

Lucien Stryk. Encounter with Zen: writings on poetry and Zen, 1981. p. 66.

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Japanese Buddhist monk 1394–1481

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