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One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan QUOTES

One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan QUOTES

1 " The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away,and the weather is clear again. If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure... Then the moon and flowers will guide you along the Way "

― Ryōkan , One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan

2 " If there is beauty, there must be ugliness;
If there is right, there must be wrong.
Wisdom and ignorance are complementary,
And illusion and enlightenment cannot be separated.
This is an old truth, don't think it was discovered recently.
"I want this, I want that"
Is nothing but foolishness.
I'll tell you a secret -
"All things are impermanent! "

― Ryōkan , One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan