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General Category => Why Work? => Topic started by: Holden on September 25, 2014, 01:27:19 am

Title: Ikkyu
Post by: Holden on September 25, 2014, 01:27:19 am

freaking flattery, success, money.
I just sit back and suck my thumb.”
― Ikkyu

Title: Re: Ikkyu
Post by: Nation of One on September 25, 2014, 11:53:22 am

Ikkyu this body isn't yours I say to myself
wherever I am I'm there


(http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/I/IkkyuSojunIk/images/IkkyuSojunIk.jpg)

only one koan matters
you

Title: Re: Ikkyu
Post by: Holden on September 26, 2014, 09:17:59 am

Thanks. I am travelling today,hopefully will respond at length soon.

Title: Re: Ikkyu
Post by: Nation of One on October 15, 2014, 02:39:13 pm

Watch this a few times.  I promise you will laugh from your gut.  It's someone reciting one of Ikkyu's poems.   :D

Zen Master Ikkyu's funny dirty love poem / Crazy Cloud (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Gqc0mhjPDqI)

I have bad news mixed with great news concerning my Ikkyu Research Project.  First of all, nothing on or by Ikkyu (Crazy Cloud) at local library. 

Also on the "bad" side:  Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan (http://www.amazon.com/Ikkyu-Crazy-Cloud-Anthology-Representative/dp/0860083403) sells for $141.68 at Amazon.  Not an option.

Great News.  Sonja Elaine Arntzen wrote a 337 page thesis paper for the Department of Asian Studies for her doctorate in philosophy at the University of British Columbia.  It is available as a pdf document!

The poetry of the Kyounshu "Crazy Cloud Anthology" of Ikkyu Sojun (http://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/CrazyCloud.pdf)

It's a start.