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Kogaku Soko Quotes

1464–1548 Japan

Kogaku Soko (古岳宗亘) (1464 – June 24, 1548) was a Japanese Zen priest and poet. He is known for founding the Daisen-in, a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, a temple of the Rinzai school of Zen in Buddhism, one of the five most important Zen temples of Kyoto.

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My final words are these:
As I fall I throw all on a high mountain peak -
Lo! All creation shatters; thus it is
That I destroy Zen doctrine.

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