"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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Other translation: I rebuke the wind and revile the rain, I do not know the Buddha and patriarchs; My single activity turns in the twinkling of an eye, Swifter even than a lightning flash. — Isshu Miura and Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen Dust, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World p. 206; cited in Richard Bryan McDaniel (2013)
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Nampo Jomyo
Nampo Jomyo, also Enzu Daiō and Daiō Kokushi (1235 – February 9, 1309) was a Japanese monk, who founded the lineage of the Rinzai school of Zen (a form of Japanese Buddhism).
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