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Mumon Gensen Quotes

d. 1390 Japan

Mumon Gensen (Japanese: 無文元選, March 22, 1323 - May 7, 1390) was a Japanese Zen priest, believed as an illegitimate son of Emperor Go-Daigo. In 1340, the next year of Go-Daigo death, Gensen became a priest at Kennin-ji, Kyoto, a major Rinzai-zen affiliated temple.

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Poets

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Life is an ever-rolling wheel
And every day is the right one.
He who recites poems at his death
Adds frost to snow.

Life is like a cloud of mist
Emerging from a mountain cave,
And death
A floating moon
In its celestial course.
If you think too much
About the meaning they may have,
You'll be bound forever
Like an ass to a stake.

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