"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 yea…"

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

"Nampo Jomyo was another who traveled to China to deepen his understanding of Zen. He was the nephew of Enni Ben’nen a…"

"As if to say— "Isn't it true for men, as well: that the more the words, the less they are of value?"— the cuckoo does…"

"When I look upon the rich sheen of summer hairs in my new brush, I am saddened by a deer drawn at night to a hunter's…"

"I had forgotten— as I kept on forgetting to remind myself that those who vow to forget are the ones who can't forget."

"All these images from a world of long ago— of what good are they? Pine winds, come—please blow away these unforgotten…"

"Even in one’s sleep, it is dreams of this world one sees, and of no other; just as there is no dawning here that brin…"