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Ikkyu
« on: September 25, 2014, 01:27:19 am »
freaking flattery, success, money.
I just sit back and suck my thumb.”
― Ikkyu
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
-van Gogh.

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Re: Ikkyu
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2014, 11:53:22 am »
Ikkyu this body isn't yours I say to myself
wherever I am I'm there




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Re: Ikkyu
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2014, 09:17:59 am »
Thanks. I am travelling today,hopefully will respond at length soon.
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
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Re: Ikkyu
« Reply #3 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



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 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

It's a start.

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Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

Gorticide @ Nothing that is so, is so DOT edu

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