The Tune of Non-Being

Go ahead.

Try to smash 

your reflection.

You and your world

remains unchanged. 

This is a truth

that cannot be 

rearranged, no 

matter how hard

or how many 

times you try.

To find lotus flowers

covering your lake,

paradise is liberating

the illusion of self.

If there is no 

birth, there will 

be no death.

 

This is another truth.

Among all the 

NOTHINGNESS

there will be no 

song to miss.

Sing now.

NOW with no

sign of an 

eclipsed sun

to come.

Kozan Ichikyo

Kozan laid down 

his brush and

died sitting upright 

at the age 

of 77 on the 12th day 

of the second 

month of 1360. 

No longer entangled 

between                              the 

             coming and going, 

his shoes were removed 

and he left them requesting 

no ceremony or service 

to interrupt his final exit. 

It is said

no footprint

could be found 

upon the mountain

he left behind.