About the blog

This poem by Zen master Ikkyu is the inspiration behind the title of the blog...

A rest on the way back

From the leaky road

To the never-leaking road;

If it rains, let it rain;

If it blows, let it blow.

My self of long ago,

In nature non-existent;

Nowhere to go when dead,

Nothing at all.

When asked, he answered;

No question, no answer;

Then master daruma

Must have had

Nothing in his mind.

Our mind -

Without end,

Without beginning,

Though it is born, though it dies -

The essence of emptiness!

All the sins committed

In the three worlds

Will fade and disappear

Together with myself.