If you do not get it from yourself
Where will you go for it? 

~  'Zenrin Kushu'

I looked in temples, churches and mosques.

But I found the Divine within my heart.

~ Rumi

Don’t seek fame or fortune,

Glory or prosperity.

Just pass this life as is,

According to circumstances.

When the breath is gone,

 Who is in charge?

After the death of the body,

There is only an empty name.

 When your clothes are worn,

Repair them over and over;

When you have no food,

Work to provide.

How long can a phantom-like Body last? 

Would you increase your ignorance 

For the sake of its idle concerns?

~ Tung-shan

Cherry blossoms

fall at the peak of their beauty

in this world to

teach our hearts

to be free of attachment.

~ Rengetsu

You stand inside me
naked infinite love,
the dawn bell rips
my dreaming heart.

~ Ikkyu

I've burnt all the holy pages 
I used to carry

but poems flare in my heart.

~ Ikkyu

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