If someone asks My abode,
I reply:
”The east edge of
The Milky Way.
Life is a drifting cloud
Bound by nothing.
I just let go
Giving myself up
To the whim of the wind.”
Ryōkan (1758–1831) is one of Japan’s most-loved and most-renowned poets. After formal training at a Zen monastery, he refused to head his own temple and instead lived as a wandering monk around Mt. Kugami. This journey allowed his spirit to become one with humanity, and he found that rare balance of living both in the physical and materials worlds. Ryōkan wrote many poems, but was never published.
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