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Dairin Soto Quotes

1480–1568 Japan

Dairin Soto (1480 - January 27, 1568) was a Japanese haiku poet.

Japan
Poets

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Realize that the taste of tea and the taste of Zen are the same and absorb the wind in the pines. Then will your mind be undefiled.

My whole life long I've sharpened my sword
And now, face to face with death
I unsheathe it, and lo -
The blade is broken -
Alas!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dairin Soto (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.