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Nampo Jomyo Quotes

1235–1309 Japan

Nampo Jomyo, also Enzu Daiō and Daiō Kokushi (1235 – February 9, 1309) was a Japanese monk, who founded the Ōtōkan lineage of the Rinzai school of Zen (a form of Japanese Buddhism).

Japan
Poets

Random Nampo Jomyo quote

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My coming today is coming from no where. One year hence, my departing will be departing to no where.

This year, the twenty-ninth of the twelfth
No longer has a place to come to.
The twenty-ninth of the twelfth next year
Already has no place to go.

To hell with the wind!
Confound the rain!
I recognize no Buddha.
A blow like the stroke of lightning -
A world turns on its hinge.

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