"

Empty-handed I entered the world

Barefoot I leave it.

My coming, my going —

Two simple happenings

That got entangled.

"

Kozan Ichikyo, died February 12, 1360, at 77

(from Japanese Death Poems, edited by Yoel Hoffmann)

(Source: awritersruminations)

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